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. The event is split over two fantastic venues: WOW Academy and, in the afternoon, the National Media Museum.

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 May 2007, Yorkshire held its first BarCamp event in Sheffield, 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.

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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. 

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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 1NQ 

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, Panoetic, Frogtrade, Shipley College , BMedia, GREEN Communications, University of Bradford and Challenge CLC. 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 would like to present to fellow BarCampers....

• Google's hidden gems by John McLear - Primary Technology and Welcome3's MD exposes some of googles hidden gems including Android, CSE, Analytics, SSO, Adwords & Adsense. 
• Twitter for Business - the dos and donts of Twitter and how it can make or damage a brand's reputation - Ian Green
• How a small local team of individuals are trying to find new ways of bringing social history to life - and aiming to change attitudes to open data along the way. (Jon Eland - title tbc)
• Rethinking the Presentation - how to not kill people with Powerpoint. - Ian Smith
• iPhone Application Development - Things I've learned from making my Zombies game - Matt West
• Setting up an ecommerce business & use of social media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook... - Chris Wildman
• TBC - Alistair MacDonald
• A Decade of WebDesign - Tracking trends in design - Monica Tailor
• Retro Gaming - A session, round-table, discussion, demos of retro games and retro tech - Mohsin Ali & Pawel Dubiel
• The 'Civic App Store' - Round-table around OpenCities, OpenData, Cities as Operating Systems, Streets as Platforms, Unique AR useage & Mobile apps for cities - Mohsin Ali
• Version Control - An introduction to how we use it to develop large CMS projects - Panoetic
• Legal Challenges of Web 2.0 - Will cover such issues as ownership of copyright and other intellectual property in user generated content, liability for user generated content, privacy, dispute resolution and much more - Jane Lambert
• Internet marketing workshop - want more website visitors? Conversion/sales/downloads? Reputation?  Round table IM problem solving with John Allsopp
• Drupal For Good - presentation on how Gentlehost are using Drupal for Social Change, then it's over to you for discussing ways in which Drupal can be used for good - Alice Kærast
• How to sell yourself better at interview - we've interviewed somewhere in the region of 50-60 developers this year, and only hired two.  What we've learned in this process - Adam Hepton
• User experience in .net magazine December 2009 - a response on a couple of articles in the latest issue: interview with Brian Kalma from Zappos, and article by Craig Grannell on 'Master user experience design' - Keith Doyle (Usability Analyst)
• Making a Game! - A presentation on the process of game making and the various markets. (Simon Barratt - hoping he'll be able to get by just working from his bullet points!)
• Get rich with Free Software - Free Software, what it is, how it works and how you can get fat rich with it. John Leach

Add a session here...

Topics I would like to hear about

• Autonomous alternatives to Google's "hidden gems". What are the open source equivilants?  Where do we still need to do more work in producing free and open alternatives?
• How does developing for Google Android devices compare with developing for the iPhone?

Add your topic here...

Planners

Ian Green, GREEN Communications

Steve Ding, Bmedia 

Tom Woolley, National Media Museum

Robin Cramp, Screen Yorkshire

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