BarCamp Oxford 2009
4-5 April, University Club, Oxford
OSS Watch have teamed up with Torchbox and The Apache Software Foundation to run a BarCamp in Oxford on April. The fun will start on the evening of April 4th with a geeky meal, the real action commences at 10am on Sunday the 5th (add your name to the list of attendees).
Details
View Larger Map
Venue and overview
The venue is the University Club, Mansfield Road, Oxford. It's booked for the Sunday, but we will kick off on Saturday evening with a meal somewhere in Oxford. The unconference will happen during Sunday daytime, for those planning to turn up on Saturday night we have researved a small number of rooms in the venue, there are also plenty of cheap options for overnight accommodation (including couch surfing for free, see below).
Themes
BarCamps are ultimately themed by the attendees: what you want to present, the BarCamp will host.
We'd love for this event to allow academic/hacker types to meet up with the vibrant and highly active geek community in Oxford, the county and beyond. Our intention is to make geek connections between projects in the academic and business sectors.
BarCamps are supposed to be fun, informative and useful. Whilst we do not intend to limit the kinds of topics you can discuss we are deliberately marketing the event to people with interests in one or more of the following:
- Open development techniques and practices
- Web 2.0 style data mashups
- Use of and engagement with The Apache Software Foundations projects
Barcamps need you!
Although we have sponsorship, a venue and a date, unconferences consist of you, the attendee! We need:
- People!
- More sponsorship: food, schwag etc.
- Network bits and pieces, projectors, stationery
- Offers of basic help, setting stuff up
- Offers of crash space for out-of-town visitors, on Saturday and maybe Sunday
Attendance at the BarCamp is Free, but normal BarCamp rules will apply, most importantly all attendees will be expected to particpate in an active way. Ways to contriubte include:
- present (informally or formally) about your favourite project
- hack together a mashup with other attendees systems
- play devils advocate in a lively debate
- have a drink with someone you have never met before
What to bring
- Laptop
- All the chargers/cables you'll need
- A plugboard to make sure we have enough sockets
- If you're using a Mac for a presentation, VGA adapters
- Spare battery (if you have one)
- Camera
- Sleeping materials - sleeping bag, pillow and toiletries (if you are using our crash spaces - see below)
- An idea for a session, presentation or talk
- A smile
- ...?
Crash space
Geeks from out of town will be in need of crash space on Saturday 4. Please put your name down if you can offer someone a piece of floor.
We have also reserved a small number of rooms at the venue for those wanting to pay for their own bed. Contact OSS Watch to learn more.
Attendees
Put your name on the list below, along with what you can bring to the party. Everyone at a barcamp will speak or contribute somehow, but if you can offer extra bits and bobs then that'd be great.
If you don't want to get a pbwiki account, then just email us and we'll put you on it.
| |
Name |
Email / homepage |
If you can help, say how |
Crash space? |
Any notes |
| 1 |
Ross Gardler (OSS Watch / ASF) |
info@oss-watch.ac.uk |
organizer |
|
|
| 2 |
Nick Burch (Torchbox / ASF) |
|
organizer |
|
|
| 3 |
J-P Stacey (Torchbox) |
jp.stacey@gmail.com |
organizer |
2-3 |
|
| 4 |
Sylwia Presley (1000heads) |
sylwia.presley@gmail.com / http://sylwiapresley.com |
organizer |
|
|
| 5 |
Matt Westcott (Torchbox) |
http://matt.west.co.tt |
|
2-3 |
|
| 6 |
Gemma Hefferon (1000heads) |
the other side of the big scary monster |
|
|
|
| 7 |
Pete Ferne (Jiva Technology) |
petef at http://jivatechnology.com |
|
|
|
| 8 |
Clinton Montague (One Ltd) |
clinton@slightlymore.co.uk http://slightlymore.co.uk |
|
(POTENTIALLY) 1-2 |
|
| 9 |
Jon Leighton |
http://jonathanleighton.com/ |
|
2 on sofas, another 2-3 on floor. |
|
| 10 |
Tom Dyson (Torchbox) |
http://throwingbeans.org/
|
|
|
|
| 11 |
James Turnbull |
http://jamesturnbull.org/
|
|
|
|
| 12 |
Matt Thorne |
matthew.thorne@chilisoft.co.uk
http://chilisoft.co.uk/
|
Network bits and pieces |
|
I have a wireless access point and a 0.5Tb NAS with a webserver, ftp, samba, ssh etc... which we can use as a collaboration tool for the weekend, can also bring a projector if required |
| 13 |
Andrew Godwin |
http://www.aeracode.org/ |
|
Possibly 1. |
|
| 14 |
Amanda Clark |
http://twitter.com/Hedgewytch |
Happy to help
|
|
|
| 15 |
James Weiner |
www.twitter.com/jamesweiner |
I can supply a projector |
|
|
| 16 |
Kal Ahmed |
www.networkedplanet.com
www.techquila.com
www.twitter.com/kal_ahmed
|
Can help out with setup/cleanup |
|
|
| 17 |
Danese Cooper |
|
BarCamp Mentor |
|
|
| 18 |
Steve Lee (Full Measure, OSS Watch, Mozilla/GNOME Accessibility) |
steve@fullmeasure.co.uk
http://fullmeasure.co.uk
|
2 hands and height that helps ordering drinks at a busy bar. |
|
|
| 19 |
Ben O'Steen (OULS) |
bosteen [at} gmail dot com |
General hackery and a couple of arduinos |
|
|
| 20 |
Inigo Surguy |
http://surguy.net/ |
Can carry things |
|
|
| 21 |
Ben Weiner |
http://readingtype.org.uk |
Will lend a hand |
|
|
| 22 |
Drew McLellan |
http://edgeofmyseat.com/ |
Have opposable thumbs. |
|
|
Core Organisers
If you've any queries, contact one of these people.
| |
Name
|
Organisation |
Email |
| 1 |
Ross Gardler |
OSS Watch / ASF |
info@oss-watch.ac.uk |
| 2 |
Nick Burch |
Torchbox / ASF |
|
| 3 |
JP Stacey |
Torchbox |
jp.stacey@gmail.com |
| 4 |
Sylwia Presley |
1000heads |
sylwiapresley@gmail.com |
Thanks also to Danese Cooper for keeping an eye on BarCamp Oxford 2009.
