Ask YC: Been going to BarCamps? (BarCampBoston3 is May 17th & 18th!)

Is the Hacker News community aware of the free unconference phenomena, like BarCamp/PodCamp/MacCamp, etc.? They're community-organized conferences for hackers, geeks, techies, webheads, and entrepreneurs. There's a huge list of BarCamps at: http://barcamp.org/ For those of you in the Boston area, I hope you'll come to BarCampBoston3 May 17th & 18th, and give a talk or otherwise participate: http://www.barcampboston.org/ Topics may include, but are not limited to: open source software, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, AJAX, hardware hacking, robotics,mobile computing, bioinformatics, RSS, Social Software, programming languages, and the future of technology.