I met some of the Bar Camp guys:
at ETech last week:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/
and mentioned Code Camp to them:
http://blogs.msdn.com/trobbins/archive/2004/12/12/280181.aspx
These two non-conferences seem to have a lot in common, though one is vaguely MS-centric (it was briefly known as MSDN Code Camp) with the other isn’t. Brian Button is putting together a Code Camp here in St. Louis soon, it will be interesting to see how it works out.
http://www.agileprogrammer.com/oneagilecoder/archive/2006/01/22/11023.aspx