Moved from http://barcamp.org/BarCampSheffield
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.
Barcamp Sheffield 08 - seehere
Been and Gone!
Thank you to everyone who came to BarCampSheffield. I think I can definitely say that it was a success and we all have fun and went home learning something (even if it was understanding just how much beer you can actually ingest!)
Competion Winners:
Best Presentation
Winner of the 2 Slingboxes for the best presentation:
- 1 time slot = 1 app, Can Rails deliver? - Adam Bardsley - Prize Sponsored by Juniper Networks
- Keep it simple - Key to successful, modern web interfaces - Wojtek Kutyla of PlusNet
Adam went against to clock to demonstrate the power ruby on rails to create a "BarCamp" application which would allow us all to register our favourite presenation of the day. Wojtek presented a look at how simplicity should be an important factor in your web application design.
Best Application Demo
Winner of the £1000 prize for the best application demonstration was the guys from MeeCard who demonstrated their application for combining your web presence into one location.
See them get their big cheque!
The two runners up who won a bottle of wine was were Dave Verwer from afeeda and Matt Brindley ThinkFold. Well done guys!
Day 1 Schedule
- Enterprise web apps/PlusNet Workplace - Dean Sadler of PlusNet
- Keep it simple - Key to successful, modern web interfaces - Wojtek Kutyla of PlusNet - Get slides from Wojtek's presentation here!
- Google Rambling Mashup - Karol Przybyszewski of PlusNet
- "The Most Fun You Can Have With Index Cards" --Tom Scott
- Future Front room - Kelly Dorset (Held every hour in our technology suite)
- Simple Steps For Wordpress SEO - Dominic Hodgson, StickyEyes
- Psychology of Online Social Networks - Sue Jamison-Powell
- How to scale your web application (with a slight focus on ruby on rails). BarCampLondon2 version is currently on over 6000 views on slideshare, I'll update this one to include EC2 stuff - George Palmer of meecard.com
- 1 time slot = 1 app (hopefully), Can Rails deliver? - Adam Bardsley
- How can 'Conceptual Structures' be relevant to Sheffield BarCampers? - Simon Polovina, General Chair, www.iccs.info
- Nervous or Naive? Come and see my Puppies - Lucy Buykx
- Joy of Firefox Plugins - Andy Mitchell
- Samizdat - Dmitry Borodaenko (slides)
- OpenID What, How, Why, Help! - Rowan Merewood
- Geocaching? (Missed the title of this, please correct!)
- Unobtrusive Javascript - Dave Verwer
- (presenation by Amit from Quotations book. Missed the title!) - Amit from Quotations Book
Day 2 Schedule
- Mike Beaumount from Travel Manager
- Steve Ireland from Ivyparkmedia with Data Capture
- Building TrafficJammr, or How I scratched an Itch - Stuart "Stubbs" Grimshaw
- The Team from QB
- theDiveBuzz Niche but designed for the world
- ThinkFold - A web app for outlining ideas and thoughts in realtime with others. Currently in private beta.
- Meecard Neatly combines all your Web presences into one appealing little card - a snippet of youness on the Web!
- Facebook Friend Plotter Plots where your facebook friends are in the UK
- Michal Szczesny from Tangent Labs - Super Web Creator, a new approach to Web based Content Management System
- Tom Scott from Twitcash - "Damn, that's evil."
- Caius Durling from Hentan Software - "Dynamic website layout using file structure"
- Dave Verwer from afeeda - Feed masher
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Event details (history...)
Why?
The Internet is currently going through an exciting time. Web 2.0, OpenID, Social Networking etc.. The UK is at the forefront of a lot of this innovation. The North of England is full of enterprising and innovative individuals / businesses but we have to travel to London to talk to kindred spirits. Not any more!
We want BarCampSheffield to showcase the best that the UK has to offer. We want to share knowledge, experience and techniques. If you have a great idea, have developed a great Web App / Mashup or are simply interested in finding out what everyone else in the market is doing then come along. Everyone is Welcome!
To make things interesting we have secured a £1000 award for the best / most innovative web application / mashup by a UK developer(s). All you have to do is come to Sheffield and demonstrate it. Our sponsors are also keen to help you get your application / mashup out into the public.
So, if you want to help share your knowledge or simply talk to people with like minded interests - then come on and join us.
Volunteers to help arrange / promote the event are urgently required.
When
26th / 27th May 2007
Sat 26th - 10am to 5pm
Sun 27th - 10am to 2pm (??)
Where
PlusNet,
Internet House
Sheffield
S1 4BY
Maps
Google Maps
Where to stay?
Have got sponsorship which pays for 30 single hotel rooms (first come first served basis) in Sheffield City for the Saturday night. Drop an email to 'barcamp AT plus.net' and they will arrange. First come, first served. (All gone!!)
Want to talk about it?
Check out http://forum.barcampsheffield.com/ (Set up by Peter Cooper) and start talking.
Confirmed Sponsors
Proposed Schedule
Day 1
- Peril's of open Passwords - with Jason Hard of Cryptocard / Whitehat
- What Is an SSL/VPN and is it really secure? - with Jason Hard of Cryptocard / Whitehat
- Enterprise web apps - Dean Sadler of PlusNet
- Keith Sterling. Present the use of Agile within AOL UK, specifically around the creation of a team to build AOL's LLU Broadband Provisioning Platform from nothing to go live in 6 months. BarCamp
- SEO - The bootstrappers way - Kevin Revill of British Information
- Keep it simple - Key to successful, modern web interfaces - Wojtek Kutyla of PlusNet - Get slides from Wojtek's presentation here!
- Building stuff with yahoo pipes (not sure what yet) --Tamlyn
- Google Rambling Mashup - Karol Przybyszewski of PlusNet
- Two Part OpenID - Kelly Dorset (If I've got a demo by then!)
- "The Most Fun You Can Have With Index Cards" --Tom Scott
- Future Front roomn - Kelly Dorset
- Simple Steps For Wordpress SEO - Dominic Hodgson, StickyEyes
- Psychology of Online Social Networks - Sue Jamison-Powell
- How to scale your web application (with a slight focus on ruby on rails). BarCampLondon2 version is currently on over 6000 views on slideshare, I'll update this one to include EC2 stuff - George Palmer of meecard.com
- 1 time slot = 1 app (hopefully), Can Rails deliver? - Adam Bardsley
- How can 'Conceptual Structures' be relevant to Sheffield BarCampers? - Simon Polovina, General Chair, www.iccs.info
Suggested talk topics
- OpenID - what is it and what is it good for?
- Knowing your Users - How much is too much?
- Building Community - by being open & honest
- SEO & SEM campaigns - The cheap and Easy Way!
- How to scale out Large MySQL implementations
- Net Neutrality vs Traffic Management
- The UK Broadband Market - Where's it going?
- Scaling small-business culture without the red-tape
Any other ideas?
Anyone got anything interesting to say about Ruby on Rails - let us know!! Would love to have a demo / presentation on the subject.
- Peter Cooper: Been using it since 2004 and have several deployed apps, will try to come up with a few ideas.. anything Ruby is up my street! :)
- hey peter, even just a run through of how rails works would be cool. i gave it a go a while back and was pretty amazed by activerecord, scaffold etc. Ruby itself is interesting too. --Tamlyn
- Peter Cooper: I've spoken to someone else who's doing a Rails presentation at BarCampSheffield, so I'll probably do a Ruby-specific one (not Rails). Feel free to discuss on the forum (link above).
Evening Pub Crawl
- Have FREE Beer available. Anyone got any preference :-) eg. Bud, Guinness, Boddingtons, Newcastle Brown? Will get a couple of crates of each depending on demand. Let me know here ;-)
Newcastle Brown -- Caius
Magners or Bulmers please (thirded - cider forever! need ice too!)
Some kind of lager please.
Local Sheffield ales: Pale Rider or Moonshine?
Yes please! Any chance of including the Devonshire Cat pub on Devonshire Street? More choice of good beers, real ales, cider (and soft drinks) than you can possibly imagine!
Any chance of something non-alcoholic (that isn't tea and coffee) too? :)
Coffee :) (preferably not instant)
Day2
- Small Start-ups Platform - Propose your new business
- Web Application Demonstrations
- Web Application £1000 Award
Topics I would like to hear about
Mobile and Web-based Social Networking
Scaling Web Applications
Agile Software Development
New Technology and its uses
Anything to do with the Web!
Competitions
Best presentation of the weekend - Win a Slingbox
Best new UK Web Application / Mashup demo - Win a cheque for £1000 AND FREE publicity for you / your app
Awards will be judged by the Attendees.
Planners
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
1. Matt Grest
2. Alex Zhang from Travel Manager
3. Kevin Revill from British Information
4. Alistair MacDonald - Hotel Confirmed
5. Jon Davies - Hotel Confirmed
6. Tony Crockford
7. -Mary-Ann Horley - Hotel Confirmed-BarCampSheffield
8. Matthew Rowe
9. Gareth Rushgrove - Hotel Confirmed
10. Tom Scott - Hotel Confirmed
11. Dan W - Hotel Confirmed
12. Ashley Etchell
13. Kev Atkinson - Hotel Confirmed
14. Dave Verwer - Hotel Confirmed
15. James Boardwell
16. Joel Rowbottom from Fotopic.net
17. Tamlyn Rhodes - Hotel Confirmed
18. Andrew Disley - Hotel Confirmed
19. Luke Morgan
20. Steve Frost
21. Keith Sterling
22. Andy Mitchell - Hotel Confirmed
23. George Palmer - Hotel Confirmed
24. Adam Bardsley - Hotel Confirmed
25. Ian Green - Hotel Confirmed
26. Caius Durling - Hotel Confirmed
27. Shaun Hare
28. Stuart Grimshaw
29. Dawid Lorenz
30. Marek Matulka
31. Wojtek Kutyla - Get slides from Wojtek's presentation here!
32. Arek Kurylowicz
33. Amit Kothari - Hotel Confirmed
34. Mitch Bryson
35. Gang Lu
36. Peter Cooper - Hotel Confirmed (room can be reallocated)
37. Steve Ireland
38. Robert Raszczynski
39. Oscar Boscaro: Benvenuti nel Giornale Tecnologico WIRELESS: http://www.pdoscarweb.it/
40. Dmitry Borodaenko
41. Jonathan Hornsby - Hotel Confirmed
42. Jordan Knowles - Hotel Confirmed
43. Karol Przybyszewski
44. Mike Simons
45. Michal Szczesny - Hotel Confirmed
46. Sue Jamison-Powell Sheffield Hallam University/DTESS Research Group
47. Paul Stanton - Hotel Confirmed
48. Mark Earnshaw- Hotel Confirmed
49. Ryan Taylor - Hotel Confirmed
50. James Jacobs - Hotel Confirmed
51. Demetrios Belis
52. David Marren - Hotel Confirmed
53. Dominic Hodgson, StickyEyes - Hotel Confirmed
54. David Emmett - Hotel Confirmed
55. Christopher Stenson - Hotel Confirmed
56. Ashley Kell - Hotel Confirmed
57. Mark Little Powertext Systems Ltd
58. Tev Smith
59. Mat Scales Magic Number Media Ltd
60. Jon Williamson Magic Number Media Ltd
61. Lucy Buykx Eaudomainia Ltd
62. Paul Mitchell Eaudomainia Ltd
63. Matt Brindley ThinkFold
64. Laurence Curran
65. Kerry Sholicar
66. Michal Jagielski
67. Wez Crozier
68. David Grandinetti - Hotel Confirmed
69. Stevan Litobac - Hotel Confirmed
70. Colin Ogilvie
71. Liam Bowers
72. Daniel Villalba Thomas Rotherham College
73. Imran Ali Carbon Imagineering, Corante, O'Reilly, bmedi@
74. John Allan
75. Jonathan Chambers
76. Alan Langridge
77. Michal 'Harry' Karlowski
78. Simon Polovina
79. Joe Jones Ebuyer
80. Dave Cardwell
81. Andy Davidson
82. Farhan Ali
83. Mohsin Ali
84. Mai Tyler QROPS
85. Tom aby Vista Help
Apologies
- Steve Jones from The 3G Portal and mobsoc.net / Can't make it due to family matters
- Jon Davies / Unable to attend because of an event clash
- Kev Atkinson
- Peter Cooper / been ill all week and it's not better enough yet :( (if it gets so, I'll come!)
The future / Ideas?
Can we have a mailing list facility so we can register and hear about how the event went, the date of the next one, etc.?
After the event can we make this a regular thing in the North - maybe do other events in Leeds, York, Hull - maybe Bradford? I have contacts with potential sponsors etc. Let me know your thoughts at Ian Greenor ian(at)greencomms(dot)com. Everything in the social media scene is very London-centric and it would be good to pool all the Northern talent.
BarCampSheffield will be an annual event if it proves popular and people want this type of thing on a regular basis. If people need assistance creating other events in the North - I will be more than happy to help. Dean
Web Apps / Mashup Competition Entrants
(please add your name if you would like to enter the Web Apps / Mashups competition and WIN the £1000 prize. UPDATE: We have also managed to secure some PR activity for those people entering the competition. So not only do you get the chance to win a grand you could also get ££££'s worth of exposure for you and your app :-) So what are you waiting for? Participants for the £1000 prize must announce their intentions to demo prior to the start of barcamp - so right now there is a 50% chance of the 2 entrants winning the £1000 :-) )
VOTING
The second day needs voting for the £1000 prize application demonstration.
Go to Data Capture Tool and add your top three votes. 3 points, 2 points and 1 point. Use the ID: 71116814
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Andy D's response to all the Ruby content at Barcamp!
NOTE
If you have lost a Powerbook adaptor, please contact me on cogilvie AT plus DOT net as it was left after the sunday session.