Californian-born international technology event Barcamp hits Ho Chi Minh City for the second year running on Dec. 13. The one-day event, which gathers together technical minds from around Vietnam and surrounding countries, will take place at RMIT University, with sessions running in rooms throughout the day.

According to organisers Thomas Wanhoff and Anh Hung, this year’s event in Hanoi was a great success and saw more than 200 people attend with talks ranging from social networks to Twitter, to online marketing and beyond.

“The scope of topics is very broad,” says Thomas. “If you want to do a session yourself, you simply write it down on a post-it on the event timetable so that everyone knows when to attend.”

Priding itself on its informality, Barcamp is user-generated, meaning that the open-participatory workshop events must be lead, supported or helped by attendees. Sessions this year are expected to include discussion on programming, web development, education, technology usage and entrepreneurship. Attendance is free, with lunch and a T-shirt provided.

“If you are working in the online industry you can meet people there who are doing the same thing, share information with them as well as learn things yourself,” says Anh Hung.

To register or to find out more, visit www.barcampsaigon.org.