May 12, 2013 - 16:47 AMT
BarCamp 2013 undwerway in Yerevan

5th BarCamp Yerevan 2013 kicked off in American University of Armenia (AUA) on May 11, with IT experts, enjineers, programmers, blogers and journalists particiapting.

Software Engineer at Google David Garcia Quintas is the special guest at BarCamp Yerevan 2013, with international experts to give workshops for the event particiapnts.

The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19–21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. It was organized in less than one week, from concept to event, with 200 attendees.

Since then, BarCamps have been held in over 350 cities around the world, in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Australasia and Asia. Attendees have often travelled internationally to attend BarCamps.