Where… The WOW Academy (am) & National Media Museum (pm), Bradford, UK
When… Saturday, November 14, 2009 9.30am-6.00pm
Who… 130 web, creative and digital media practitioners; designers; developers; Bloggers; geeks; animators; entrepreneurs; investors; academics & students of digital media and creative courses.
What is a BarCamp?
BarCamps are community conferences, run by volunteers. Nobody is charged for attending a BarCamp although everyone is expected to give a presentation or lead a discussion session.
Due to the nature of the event there are a number of costs incurred which make great sponsorship opportunities for local businesses, regional tech/industry companies and international companies looking to increase their exposure amongst the Yorkshire technology, creative and digital communities.
In November 2007, Yorkshire held its first BarCamp event in Leeds, where the folks that came created a programme of sessions themselves. BarCamps are open, participatory, democratic, 'workshop' events; the organisers and sponsors simply provide wireless broadband, a venue, beverages and food. The enthusiastic attendees provide the content - and the buzz!
BarCamps are great opportunity to network and a great environment to learn about new technologies, media, thought leadership and practice from the very people that make the digital industries work each day.
Register Here
This year, we plan to host a BarCamp in Bradford and we’re expecting 130 attendees from Yorkshire and across the country with live linkups with BarCamps in the US, Canada and India. We are also seeking to link in with the Bradford Animation Festival 2009 which finishes on November 14. With this in mind we will be encouraging those presenting to look at new developments in film, animation and digital media and offer a Superstar Speaker supported by an appropriate sponsor such as Google.
With that in mind we would also love to hear from anyone who is currently working on an Android app.
We'd love for you to come - if you're a creative, an artist, a writer, blogger, technologist, or a developer, geek, entrepreneur, academic researcher, gamer or investor please join us. If you were just curious and interested in digital culture - we'd love to meet you too. Come and demo, talk, share or just hang out! Follow us on TWITTER for further updates.
Register Here
Event Details
Cost: Nothing, Nada, FREE and we will feed and hydrate you too. AND we might give you a FREE T-shirt too! There will also be prizes at the end of the day for the best presentations and free entry to a drinks reception with the National Media Museum as it celebrates the Animation Festival awards.
Where:
WOW Hub, Innovative Technologies Centre, Victoria Building, 88 Thornton Road, Bradford, BD1 2DX
National Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 2DX
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 include Screen Yorkshire, Yorkshire Forward, National Media Museum, Shipley College, BMedia, GREEN Communications and Challenge College. We are also supporting a local charity – and will ask attendees on the day who they want us to donate any money we raise to.
What To Bring
Laptop
All the chargers/cables you'll need
Camera
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
Topics I would like to hear about
add your topic here...
Planners
Add yourself….
Ian Green, GREEN Communications
Steve Ding, Bmedia
Tom Wooley, National Media Museum
Robin Cramp, Screen Yorkshire
Volunteers
add yourself...
Participants (aka Campers)
add yourself...
Who's Blogging?
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc. Please use the tag BarCampBradford for content related to this event. For Twitter use #BarCB
