It was shortly after the hugely suc­cess­ful Perth Bar­Camp that some­one noticed podcamp.info. This appeared to be an attempt to start a sim­i­lar style of uncon­fer­ence event in Australia.

Being the happy and enthu­si­as­tic crowd we are here in Perth — and still hyped up from recent Bar­Camp - Perth peeps got behind the vote to send Bar­Camp to Perth, send­ing our fair city rock­et­ing into the lead.

There are some things about the site that are a bit odd, how­ever - infor­ma­tion on the peo­ple behind the event is a bit hard to find. Gary Bar­ber did some research and has some sus­pi­cions as to whether the loca­tion poll was gen­uine or just a pub­lic­ity stunt because it was assumed that Syd­ney would win.

I’m open-minded, and prob­a­bly opti­mistic to a fault, so I’m wait­ing to hear some­thing from the organ­is­ers. The home page lists “Other Upcom­ing New­me­dia Events” and of the five that are cur­rently listed, four are based in Perth!

What do you guys think? Is Pod­camp Aus­tralia for real?