During last 2 years former USSR countries faced so-called “BarCamp boom”. Starting from the very first Ukranian BlogCamp in autumn 2007 and until the most recent NevaCamp in St. Petersburg, we all appreciated brand new style of putting new media dreams into real life.

These two years were full of exciting events, people, projects and innovations, which changed us very much. I, personally, during the Kiev BlogCamp in 2007, made my first presentation on a large (relatively) audience, met some people who became my good friends very soon, decided to take part in the BarCamp Baltics 2008 and even developed some ingenious projects for their Innovation Incubator.

Then a first thought of hosting our Belarusian un-conference has appeared. Later it transformed into some small events in Belarus and a huge event at the end of year, as a gift to all Belarusian internet community - ByCamp 2008.

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Twitter is not just an incidental result of the crazy webmasters` experiment, nor the greatest invention in the art of wasting your time, but the system which appeared right in time, by the society demand. Twitter came into our lives to eliminate the inner contradictions inside the classic style of blogging. With the appearance of “Twitter model” of blogging, traditional blogging systems began to adopt microblogging on their sites in the purpose to survive in quickly changing world.

In the universities we are taught the science of the evolution of open systems. Let me remind you some stages which every system should pass during its lifecycle.

1. The system is born, early prototypes as well as early adopters (as users and creators) appear.

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