BarCamp Scotland 2009
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. GMT
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. GMT post event drinks and networking
Location: School of Informatics, Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton Street, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9LE
**NEW NEWS! We are please to announce that a special guest from Silicon Valley will join us, Mike Masnick. Mike is the founder of Techdirt, ranked No. 2 in the world for technology business blogs http://www.techdirt.com/, and the founder of Floor64 http://www.floor64.com/.
More About Mike:
Mike is the visionary behind Floor64, building up the core idea into reality and recruiting the management team. In addition to providing the strategic direction for the company, Mike oversees all editorial aspects of the Floor64’s public and customer sites. Mike’s insight into the realms of business and technology are the basis for his frequent posts to the award winning Techdirt blog. The widely followed, often quoted blog was launched in 1997. Prior to founding Floor64 Inc., Mike worked in business development and marketing at Release Software, an e-commerce startup, and in marketing at Intel. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA -- both from Cornell University www.cornell.edu.
RUGBY
Note: For those of you wishing to watch the Scotland-Ireland rugby match, the organizers have identified two pubs within a five minute walk that will be playing the match. The first is Bar56: http://edinburghmenus.com/directory/56_north_eh81jp/ at 2-8 West Crosscauseway. The second is Native State http://www.freshair.org.uk/_up/nativestate/Native%20State.htm at 32-34 Potterow. The match starts at 5:00 p.m. GMT.
What is BarCamp?
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. You can sign up to come along on this page.
Media Sharing and Tags
Upload all photos to Flickr , all presentations to Slideshare, all videos to YouTube; use the tags BarCampScotland and BarCamp.
Flickr: The BarCampScotland Pool. Check out what happened at BarCampScotland2007 and BarCampScotland2008.
Event tags: barcampscotland, barcamp
Sign up
To sign up to attend BarCamp (so we have an idea of many people to expect) you need to create an account with PBwiki (all you need to provide are your name and valid email address), login, go to the BarCamp Scotland 2009 page and hit the Edit tab at the top left of the page. Then you can add your name to the list of attendees below.
Organizers:
1. Danny Helson, Informatics Ventures, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
2. Michael Clouser, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
3. Ewan McIntosh - Channel 4's 4iP, 38minutes
List of Attendees (sign yourself up please):
1. Danny Helson, Informatics Ventures, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
2. Michael Clouser, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
3. John Sutherland
4. Colin Hewitt, IfLooksCouldKill Ltd
5. Steven Livingstone, http://livz.org
6. Thomas Drapier
7. Paul Herron
8. Cole Henley
9. Simon Montford
10. Fearghas McKay
11. Daniel Winterstein of Winterwell Associates Ltd
12. Graeme Mathieson, Managing Director of Rubaidh Ltd
13. Aditya Kedia, AEGON Asset Management UK
14. Jim Wolff, ki-work.com
15. Trevor Mendham - @trevormendham
16. Removed for some reason?
17. Abel Rogers
18. Kyle MacRae @kylemacrae
19. Geoff Ballinger, Mobile Acuity Ltd.
20. Tane Piper, Ambergreen Internet Marketing
21. Ben Rogers, attacat Ltd
22. David Lawson, Ecomove.com
23. David Petherick, Digital Biographer, writing for The Next Web
24. Florian Dargel
25. Andrew Cross MerrallOnline.com
26. Olly Jackson, The PODFather / Valley Technology
27. Lilly Hunter, e-marketer at SETN, Scottish Environmental Technology Network
28. Patrick Hadfield
29. Andrew Birkett - http://www.nobugs.org
30. Peter Ashe (occasional fledgling tweets)
31. Alex Stobart
32. Andrew McFarlane http://blogs.sun.com/sunwards/
33. Jessica Williamson
34. Iain Cranston, Capgemini Consulting
35. Mark Hunter - Podcastmatters Ltd
36. Miquel Rodriguez Telep, Design Unbound
37. Duncan Stephen - Scotweb2 / @doctorvee
38. Christopher McCann, Spark of Genius
39. Nicholas McGhee, Spark of Genius
40. Peter Fullarton, Spark of Genius
41. Stephen McGhee, Spark of Genius
42. Robert McFarlane, Spark of Genius
43. Philip Immirzi Ecomonkey Green Rewards
44. Naomi Nunn, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
45. Kate Ho, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
46. Peter Hunter, Scottish Government
47. Ally Crockford, Entrepedia
48. James Kelly, Entrepedia
49. Ellya Gold, eRally
50. Jennie Lees - @jennielees
51. Lynn Shellard, Lynn Shellard
52. Grant McAllister, Freelance Web Designer @GrantMc
53. Boyan Gerasimov, University of Oxford / University of Pennsylvania
54. Mike Coulter, Spiv & Social Snake Oil Salesman
55. Peter Cruickshank - Napier Uni
56. Danyi Feng
57. Chao Duan
58. Xiaoyang Yu, University of Edinburgh
59. Tessa Darley @tessadarley
60. James Coltham, City of Edinburgh Council and prettysimple.co.uk
61. Kirsty Hall - Scottish Enterprise kirstyhall@scotent.co.uk
62. Lanxia HUANG
63. David Griggs Screen Academy Scotland , gaiafilm.net,
64. Jane Thomson, University of Strathclyde, jane.thomson@strath.ac.uk
65. Kate Farrell, Castlebrae Community High School / Scottish Screen @digitalkatie
66. Sean Farrell, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) / Heriot Watt University @digitalsean
67. Louis Farrell, @sproglet
68. Rob Lazzurs, @lazzurs
69. Steve Young, Creative Director - WeeWorld.com. @steveyoung74
70. Petteri Hietavirta
Sponsors:
Channel 4's 4iP (in Scotland and Northern Ireland)
