The next elektro:camp will take place in Leuven on Fri 26 and Sat 27 October. Admission is free as in beer. The presentations and workshops will be free as in speech. To get the event's logistics sorted out, we do ask you to register in advance. Barcamps are participatory events. So if you have something to share, add your presentation/demo/workshop proposal to the schedule queue.

Hope to see you in Leuven in the fall!

With the first edition of elektro:camp in October 2010 being a blast, we had already forged plans to organize a sequel of the event in 2011. We initially thought a yearly gathering would be appropriate. The fields of smart grids, home automation and renewable energy are however evolving at quite a rapid pace. Combining this with people anxious to show off what they've been working on for the past six months made us decide to already hold a second elektro:camp at the end of May. Christoph Lindenmüller from the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart volunteered to be the host this time. Having a place and a date means that elektro:camp(<<2011.05>>) is now official! Further information about the event can be found here. Registration is again free and can be done at the same url.

Numerous lines of code are being written and hardware schematics drawn for the so-called 'smart grid'. On a social level, we're observing a rapidly rising interest by households and companies for better monitoring and control of their electricity consumption and solar production. Mathias Dalheimer of the mySmartGrid project and myself find that the time has come to organise a barcamp on open-source smart grid technologies. The Fraunhofer ITWM institute in Kaiserslautern is kindly sponsoring this event by letting us use their facilities. So without further ado, here's the open invitation to come to Kaiserslautern on the 29th and 30th of October. We'd love you to actively share your ideas, demo your work and tinker away during these two days. Please let us know you're coming by adding your name to this wiki page. Registration is free as in beer.

Spread the word and I'll see you in K'lautern!