I’ve never participated in any of such events but this month I’ll be attending a couple of barcamps. The first one will be held this saturday (the 10th) in Milan. It’s the iWordcamp (with Matt Mullenweg himself). It will cover a lot of different topics about our favorite blogging script (and community): wordpress.
The second one (24th of May) will be a MicroCamp: participants are limited to 50 and it will be held in Milan too. Main topic will be the microblogging experience.
It will be interesting to see what comes out of those event. I’m interested in the business point of view (how suchs tools are used, the business model, and so on…). Also there will be an interesting technical point of view too (integration, development, features…).
I’ll be documenting both events with my camera (on flickr), on twitter and maybe on my blogs. Stay tuned.