BarCamp Cameroon 2010
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
The first BarCampCameroon2009 was held on November 7, 2009 in Douala and after its success with more than 250 participants who attended the event, the consensus was to hold a second edition as soon as possible.
BarCampCameroon2010 happened again on the 12th of June, 2010 in the Djeuga Palace Hotel in Yaoundé with at least 200 participants, You can read our official blog or search twitter for the hastag #barcampcameroon.
We have an official mailing list for those interested in getting involved in the organisation of the event, please join this group: http://groups.google.com/group/barcampcameroon
If you haven't heard about BarCamps or want to know more then jump to our Participants section.
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Un BarCamp C'est une non-conférence qui dure généralement un weekend et dont le but est de rassembler des personnalités intéressantes du monde des technologies numériques, pour partager des idées et apprendre des autres.
Tout le monde est le bienvenu, mais chaque participant se doit de réaliser une intervention ou au moins de participer.
Ne ratez pas cet événement qu'est le Premier BarCamp au Cameroun!
Et si vous souhaitez participer a son organisation rejoignez nous sur : http://groups.google.com/group/barcampcameroon
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Plus d'infos et suivez nous sur / Check out the links below for more information or to follow us:
-Blog: http://africamp.com/cameroon
-Twitter: http://twitter.com/BarCampCameroon
-Identi.ca : http://identi.ca/group/barcampcameroon
-Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2167753/
-Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=130832626678
BarCamp Cameroon- Program
The final program for BarCampCameroon 2010 is here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0At0OxHEZTHyUdFQxVXhmdUtZZFoyMzJMSUF0cEE0cFE&hl=en
Now that BarCampCameroon 2010 is over we want to gather all the presentations that were made together. You can use the following websites or others that you might prefer to share your presentation or document and make sure it is viewable to everyone:
However the most important thing is that you tag your presentation with the following tags (along with other tags that are relevant to your presentation) and link to your talk below.
Tags: barcamp, barcampcameroon, barcampcameroon2010
Talks at BarCamp Cameroon 2010:
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
For Twitter use the tag #BarCampCameroon
For flickr/slideshare.net use the tag #BarCampCameroon2010
Press/Blogs - Who's blogging? / On Parle de nous
Official Blog: http://africamp.com/cameroon
Please do register on the africamp.com site and feel free to blog about BarCampCameroon.
Les liens des articles sur le barcamp :
Sponsorship of BarCamp Cameroun
S'il vous plaît lisez ce message blog / Please read this blog post :
http://africamp.com/articles/cameroon/ovo1255529722/
Current sponsors announced for the event are:
Sponsor
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Sponsorship
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Description
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| Google |
Headline Sponsor - Food for the event, 1 Googler attended and presented. |
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Despite some of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the world, Africa has enticed Google. The company's investment in the continent and events like this represents Google's long-term commitment to driving the web forward for users globally through creating developer platforms, supporting open standards, and providing building blocks for developers to create robust web applications.
We are excited once again to be sponsored as part of Google's G-Africa initiative, which is aimed at software developers. Google will be covering the cost of the lunch for all participants and they are sending a number of Google staff to do talks at BarCamp.
Google a pour objectif d'organiser le monde de l'information et de le rendre utile et accessible par tous. Malgré son faible taux de pénétration d'Internet, l'Afrique a attiré Google. Ses investissements dans les entreprises du continent ainsi que les évènements comme celui ci représentent l'engagement à long terme de Google de suivre les mutations des utilisateurs web du monde entier à travers la création de plateformes pour les développeurs, le soutien de standards ouverts et la fourniture de modules qui aideront les développeurs à créer des applications web robustes.
Nous sommes très heureux une fois de plus d'être parrainés dans le cadre de l'initiative G-Africa de Google, qui est destiné aux développeurs de logiciels. Google supportera le coût des repas pour tous les participants et enverra certains membres de son équipe exposer à ce BarCamp.
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| Ringo |
Headline Sponsor - Fast Internet, T-Shirts, Marketing and Publicity |
Ringo believes that everyone is entitled to access Information Communications Technologies (ICT) without which growth and economic development, in a world of globalization, are not possible. Ringo's mission is to make the Internet accessible to the greatest number of Cameroonians.
Once again this year Ringo will be providing fast Internet over wifi during the event, providing free t-shirts for every participant and publicising the event in the press and through their website and street banners. In addition their engineers will be at the event to talk about some of the latest technologies they are working with.
Ringo est une entreprise qui estime que tout le monde devrait avoir accès aux Technologies de l'Information et de la communication (TIC) sans lesquelles le développement économique et la croissance, dans ce contexte de mondialisation sont impossible. L'objectif de Ringo est de rendre Internet accessible au plus grand nombre de Camerounais.
Une fois de plus cette année, Ringo fournira une connexion Haut débit gratuite via Wifi pendant la durée de l'évènement, offrira des T-shirts à tout les participants et communiquera sur l'évènement à travers la presse, leur site web, et des bannières dans les rues. En plus, leurs ingénieurs seront présents pour nous parler des dernières technologies sur lesquelles ils travaillent.
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| FeePerfect |
Main Sponsor - Part Venue sponsorship |
iYam.mobi permits you to Find AnyOne including lots of SMS Apps that make your phone more useful and fun
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| Afrovision Group |
Main Sponsor - Part Venue sponsorship |
AfroVisioN Group is a Cameroonian based firm whose main business is to deliver affordable web and software development services to the Cameroonian and African markets. AfroVisioN Group backs 100+ clients world wide in its portfolio and is in Buea,Cameroon.
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Limbe Labs
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Main Sponsor - Logistical and financial support
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Limbe Labs is a technology consultancy and outsourcing business located in the heart of Central West Africa.
We’re a group of technologists and entrepreneurs who share a passion for all things tech, with a special interest in working with clients to deliver solutions on a local, regional and national scale.
Limbe Labs Solutions is focused on consulting and socially-responsible outsourcing.
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VLP Opensource
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Main Sponsor - Logistical Support
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| Ingenieris.net |
Media Sponsor - Publicity |
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| Kerawa.com |
Media Sponsor - Publicity and Advertising |
Kerawa.com has been humbly serving online classifieds for the Cameroonian population and neighboring African countries since late 2007. The ability to post free ads on job offers, items for sale, properties to let and other sections has transformed Kerawa into one of the most active cameroonian websites, with over 100 000 ads served.
Kerawa.com est une plateforme en ligne, proposant des annonces aux populations camerounaises, et aux pays africains voisins depuis 2007. La possibilité de poster gratuitement des offres d'emploi, des articles à vendre, des maisons à louer ont transformé Kerawa.com en l'un des plus actifs sites web camerounais, avec plus de 100.000 annonces répertoriées.
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| Koutchoumi.com |
Media Sponsor - Publicity |
koutchoumi.com is a real estate website which lets people find housing and lands in Yaoundé and Douala. Also, real estate agents, which are thoroughly selected by the koutchoumi.com team, can make their products known universally, get a wider audience and so get customers more quickly.
koutchoumi.com est un site d'annonces immobilières qui permet de trouver des logements et des terrains à Yaoundé et à Douala. Aussi, les agents immobiliers, sélectionnés avec soin par l'équipe de koutchoumi.com, peuvent obtenir une plus grande audience pour leurs produits et ainsi les placer plus rapidement.
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| MAF Productions |
Media Sponsor - Publicity and Video of the event
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| Citrix |
Minor Sponsor - Sending someone to present on Citrix technologies, including Xen Virtualisation. |
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Planners & Volunteers- Organisateurs
Currently the following people have volunteered their time to help with BarCamp - Please do join the list if you want to be involved, if you want to be involved in an area that has someone listed already please don't hesitate to still offer your help.
Venue - Alex Drahon
Food - Hanna
T-Shirt and Banner Design - Michael
Sponsorship coordinator - Jeremy Brown
Publicity - Jeremy Brown, Hervé Djia, Ekwoge Fritz via kerawa
Program - Ekwoge Fritz , Alex Drahon
Media relations - Dorothea Danedjo Fouba
The organisers of this barcamp held meetings on #barcamp-cm on Freenode network.
You can access it through this webchat: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=barcamp-cm
Previous Meeting Reports:
All meeting reports are hosted on our Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/barcampcameroon/files
Budget
Here is the final budget and expenses for this edition of BarCamp:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Alf9cQlbgXhydEN3Q0cwRHZsYkg2cTlYN19SX2pRTlE&hl=en
Of course this doesn't include the cost to the volunteers in time and phone call costs etc. but it shows what the basic financial costs were of the event and what the sponsor's money was spent on.
