Luyi Chen’s blog

In the last two weeks, I was taking part in the preparation of Barcamp Shanghai. If you don’t know what is Barcamp, it’s a loosely organized grassroot unconference. Most of the topics on Barcamp are about technology, but you can talk about other things too. For formal introduction of Barcamp you can visit the Wikipedia page.

The first Barcamp in China will be held in Tudou’s office on Sept. 24. They have a cool office in a two floor Warehouse, with more than two thousand square meters. If you want to have a look at their famous wall drawings, I have taken some picturs, last time I visit their office.

As one kind of unplanned conference, all the sessions are scheduled in the morning on the conference day. If you want to lead a session, you must show up at the schedule time. Your session even have to get enough vote to happen, if too many people want to talk.

With the new homepage went live the door has opened. Register to the event early, because we can only accept 80 people. Of course the attendance is free, thanks to our sponsors. Before you sign up, keep the spirit of Barcamp in mind. Evenyone is encouraged to contribute something. Please visit the register page for how to register and see who will come.

Read my post on China Web2.0 Review for more background. Thanks godness, we have secured the venue and almost enough sponsors to make this happen. Now it’s time to spread the words. Pacific Epoch is helping us again.

I am thinking of leading a session on the conference. At least, I can blog the event.

Some attendees asked us for James Boettcher’s slides, but we didn’t get approvement from the author to share this. If you are still interested in the content of this keynote speech, I quote a paragraph by Helen Zhang from our internal report:

Jim Boettcher’s lively keynote speech, peppered throughout by bits of humor, took an interesting perspective on private equity in China. It centered around a concept called the “China Paradigm Factor,” a mysterious number with a major role in calculating the value of private equities in the country. This factor is influenced by variables such as abundant and low-cost workers, easily adaptable customers who are willing to spend more and more, and capital markets in transition.

Plus8star has made a quick redesign of the website. And here is a report of web2.0 panel.

Wen Dong, a student from Nanjing, has a detailed record of the whole conference day. Among all students to the conference, I am impressed the most by the ones from Nanjing. They are well prepared and competing.

Today when I was doing ego search, I found our conference on this Chinese social event website, 8sheng. It looks like a young service, with only 2 month, based on Ruby on Rails. Since I don’t have any other good Chinese social calendar in mind, maybe this is the one to give a try. I think it’s a good idea to make the events page a dig style. When they have a large user base, this feature will be useful to filter out interesting events. They have a blog called Going On.

My summary of Web2.0 panel is available as a guest post on China Web2.0 Review. That’s better place to host Web2.0 stuff. So read and comment there.

Cui Song, an ATI alumni has a detailed record of Web 2.0 panel. This helps me remember many details. Thanks!

Stanford ATI Entrepreneurial Conference 2006 has come to an end yesterday. Thanks to everyone for coming to the event. Positive or negative? Let us know your feedback. We are listening.

I have uploaded some of the photos to flickr. Don’t forget to tag all your photos with “ati06″.