You see, yesterday we started this innocent initiative to create a BarCamp to provide a new, decent serious project for the italia.it website. Something Italy could be finally be proud of. And we’re not asking one dime out of those 40 millions of euros or so that have been already spent on the project.
In less than 24 hours, 50 people signed in, freely offering their knowledge, skills and time to help in the project. That is amazing!
Problem is, this is Italy.
And in Italy you don’t really want to go against “Big Guys”. Those with “Power 1.0″.
They’ll get pissed off, they’ll do nasty things, they’ll hit you hard.
C’mon, sounds like a b-movie synopsis, you’ll say.
Well, believe it or not, today we had the first (afaik) case of a man (happens to be also a blogger) threatened for supporting the rItaliaCamp.
You see, he proposed the Bicocca University (where he teaches) as a venue for the camp, and received this nice email in return:
Ucci, ucci si sente odor di blogger che saranno inculatucci per Italia.it. State accuorti a scrivere male di chi conta. Si possono perdere le cattedre all’università…………………………….
“Hey, there’s a smell of bloggers being assfucked in the air, about Italia.it. Beware of badmouthing the powers that be. You can quickly loose your nice University seat this way”
Nice, isn’t it?
The rItaliaCamp will happen, in one month time, venue to be defined.
I hate the analogy: italian “government” is the face of italian people… people are (quiet) better ;)