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09/30/07 My community

Barcamp Buenos Aires yesterday turned out to be a great event. Top notch organization, good wireless and enough food and drinks so that the 130 geeks (quite a bunch of us with Macs, ahem) were fed and happy. Because seriously, give these people beer and internet and no one will complain.

One thing stroke me though. I knew more people at Podcasters Across Borders, an event 9000 Km away —5000mi for those of you who don’t speak metric— , than at Barcamp Buenos Aires which was a few hours away. Both events had the same amount of people, so what’s the deal?. I remember having a chat over coffee with Julien about something like this. He asked me something along the lines of why didn’t I start something here. My reply was “because my community is this one“, refering to the north american podcasting community. You see, when I started listening to podcasts, back in March or April 2005, there were no shows in spanish, let alone local shows. When I checked for argentinian podcasts some time later I found two, and one was pretty bad. Even now the amount of local podcasts is ridiculously low compared to the rest of the world. So I listened to shows in english, and I became involved in that community.

But now I am starting to be part of this community. What do I do? Do I make my blog and my twitter bilingual? Do I keep reporting on these events in english? Ah, who knows. We’ll see how it goes.

For now, check some photos. Those brochettes look yummy in any language.

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