EventCamp and the Power of Participatory Events

How a community-built experiment in the early 2010's quietly shaped a generation of conveners—and revealed where the Gathering Economy was headed

Editor’s Note: This story exists because of the generosity of the EventCamp community, who shared archives, memories, and corrections as the history came back into focus. I am especially grateful to Adrian Segar and Ruud Janssen, whose thinking and design fingerprints shaped the EventCamp model in lasting ways. The participant list is a work in progress…