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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.Some of you may already have attending the Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester BarCamps and we would love it if you could come along to Shipley, Bradford to share you ideas on April 18. Watch the video below to see how a BarCamp works.
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Registration
Register here by adding you name to the BarCampers list below or at the Facebook Group (which will be set up shortly). Discussion is taking place either on this wiki or on Facebook.
Event Details
Cost: Nothing, Nada, FREE and we will feed and hydrate you too. AND we might give you a FREE T-shirt too!
When: April 18, 2009
Register at 9.30 starts at 10.00. Wraps up at 5.30 followed by beers and banter
Where: ShipleyCollege – See Map Here
Travel: Regular rail service from Leeds. If you’re driving offer to car share.
email ianjgreen@googlemail.com if you are interested in participating or sponsoring
Sponsors
Looking for sponsors now - this could be you! We’re looking for sponsors to cover food and drinks, prizes for best presentation, and anything else you care to mention. You can find guidance about sponsorship here with notes on best practices, examples how people around the world have raised the funds needed to run a camp.
Sponsors already confirmed are:
NIPC
Bmedia
Carbon Imagineering
Challenge College
Shipley College
GREEN Communications
University of Bradford
Proposed Agenda
Each session will be 30 minutes with a ten minute break in between. We expect to have 3-4 session rooms, so we can accommodate 40 sessions throughout the day. PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS TABLE IN YET... THE ORGANISERS WILL COMPLETE IT NEARER TO BARCAMP IN APRIL.
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Main Room
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Room 2
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Room 3
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Room4
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10.00-10.30
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Board Wrangling
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10.30-11.00
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11.00-11.30
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11.40 -12.10
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12.20- 12.50
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1.00 – 2.00
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Lunch courtesy of ….possibly a Brat'ford Curry
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2.00-2.30
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2.40-3.10
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3.20-3.50
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4.00-4.30
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4.30-5.00
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5.10-5.40
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6.00
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Wrap Up
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What To Bring
Laptop
All the chargers/cables you'll needCamera
An idea for a session/presentation/talk
Business cards
Enthusiasm and no inhibitions.
The Rules of BarCamp
Rule 1: You do talk about BarCamp.
Rule 2: You do blog about BarCamp.
Rule 3: If you want to present, you must write your topic and name in a presentation slot.
Rule 4: Only three word intros.
Rule 5: As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
Rule 6: No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
Rule 7: Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until they run into another presentation slot.
Rule 8: If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present. (Ok, you don't really HAVE to, but try to find someone to present with, or at least ask questions and be an interactive participant.)
Proposed Sessions
Suggest a session you like to present to fellow BarCampers
Build it and they will come - creating a community - Ian Green
Twittering for business - Ian Green
Mobile news and what to do with it when you've got it - Thomas Atcheson
Adrian McEwen blog twitter - maybe talking something about Arduino, will bring Bubblino with me at least
Legal Issues raised by Web 2.0 Jane Lambert
Creating and marketing an online butchers - online farmers market - Chris Wildman twitter
Topics I would like to hear about
add your topic here...
Planners
Ian Green, GREEN Communications
Tara Phelan, Shipley College
Steve Ding, Bmedia
Volunteers
add yourself...
Tara Phelan, Shipley College
Mercedes Green
Ian Green, GREEN Communications
Steve Ding
Matt Fielding & Pete McClory from Panoetic
Participants (aka Campers)
add yourself...
Jane Lambert
Ian Green
Steve Ding
Imran Ali
Ross Brown
Thomas Atcheson
Andrew Holmes
Nasir Qureshi
Margaret Robson
Hashim Hashim
Stuart Grimshaw
Jon Hindle
Tom Scott
Adrian McEwen blog twitter - maybe talking something about Arduino, will bring Bubblino with me at least
Arturo Servin
Chris Wildman - twitter
Alistair MacDonald
Matthew Knight - follow on twitter
Matt Fielding & Pete McClory from Panoetic
Emma Frost
Who's Blogging?
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc. Please use the tag BarCampBradford for content related to this event.
Add your blog here:
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