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BarCamb

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BarCamb: the first Barcamp in Cambridge, UK.

Friday 24th August, 2007

 

The very first Barcamp in Cambridge is taking place on August 24th. All are invited to join us at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for a day of discussions, demos, and interaction focused on science and technology.

 

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is one of the leading genomics centres in the world, dedicated to analysing and understanding genomes. Through large-scale analysis - and focused research and collaborations - the Sanger Institute's programmes underpin biological and medical research worldwide.

 

The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus houses the Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute. It is the home of many diverse genomic and informatics projects, including large scale sequencing, Ensembl, UniProt and human genomic analysis.

 

50 people have signed up to attend the inaugural Barcamp! We're now full to capacity and so registration is closed, but feel free to take a look at our Upcoming page anyway. For all those who have signed up: we're very much looking forward to meeting you - feel free to add the title of your proposed session here.

 

 

Proposed sessions

  • 30 Minutes with Ruby on Rails, Matt Wood, WTSI
  • Semantic science: a guide to microformats, Matt Wood, WTSI
  • Getting more out of social tagging systems for science, Ian Mulvany, Nature
  • Creating "Papers", rapid development of great applications using Cocoa on MacOSX, Alexander Griekspoor (EBI), mekentosj.com
  • 5 minutes introduction to MacResearch.org and SciComp@Camb user groups (not a full session). Alexander Griekspoor (EBI).
  • (30 minutes or mini session) Home Awareness, Presence and Privacy. What would you do with a data feed of what is going on in your home? Laura James, AlertMe.com
  • HTML 5 and the future of markup on the web, James Graham
  • Rapid Prototyping stuff with microcontrollers, Simon Ford
  • Text mining for science (or chemistry, at least), Peter Corbett
  • Multilingual programming - Mixing programming languages, Lars GT Jorgensen, WTSI

 

Scope

The venue of the first Barcamp in Cambridge will help provide focus for the meeting. Attendees are invited to talk, demonstrate and discuss topics at the interface between science and technology. This encompasses, but is not limited to areas such as computer science, laboratory science and information management, informatics, open source in science, computational chemistry, mathematical biology and the web.

 

Venue

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton

Cambridge, England

CB10 1SA

 

(52° 9' 15 N, 0° 8' 29 E)

 

Travel directions or a map

 

Times

Breakfast at 8.30am, with the action starting at 9.30am. We'll aim to wrap up by about 5.00pm.

 

  • 8.30 am: Breakfast in Murray's Restaurant
  • 9.30 am: Welcome and session suggestions
  • 10.00 am: First session
  • 10.30 am: Second session
  • 11.00 am: Coffee
  • 11.30 am: Third session
  • 12.00 pm: Fourth session
  • 12.30 pm: Fifth session
  • 1.00 pm: Lunch in the Morgan Building
  • 2.00 pm: Sixth session
  • 2.30 pm: Seventh session
  • 3.00 pm: Eighth session
  • 3.30 pm: Coffee
  • 4.00 pm: Ninth session
  • 4.30 pm: Tenth session
  • 5.00 pm Close

 

Sessions will take place in the Sulston Laboratories.

 

Lunch

Refreshments and lunch will be provided, courtesy of the Wellcome Trust.

 

Space

We have two rooms to use as we wish, so we can have two concurrent tracks of talks and demos. There is space for about 50 attendees.

 

Spotlight on Science

The Wellcome Trust public engagement of science group, based at the Sanger Institute, are looking to make Barcamb a 'spotlight on science' event. As such, they will be roving around the conference performing a few interviews and capturing the event in pictures. The Cambridge Evening News have also expressed an interest in the event, and will be sending a long a photographer.

 

Equipment

Data projectors, white boards and flip pads are available in both rooms.

 

Join us

Registration for Barcamp is now closed!

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/208327

 

More info

If you have any questions or comments, just drop an email to barcamb@googlemail.com

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