BarCamp Oxford 2009
4-5 April, University Club, Oxford
OSS Watch have teamed up with Torchbox, Nearly Done 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).
ATTENDEES: follow @barcampoxford on Twitter (or use the tag #barcampoxford to join in), and join the Google Group. That way we can all keep each other informed, about resources, planning, requests for help/crash space etc.
Details
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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).
Meals on Sunday
Food will be provided on Sunday, thanks to generous sponsorship from Nearly Done. More details to follow.
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
Help publicise the event
You could help by telling people about the event, or by putting up this poster.
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
Attendee numbers are limited owing to funding for things like catering. Currently we've set that limit at fifty, but we can reconsider it if there's enough demand.
If there's still space, then 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.
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Email / homepage |
If you can help, say how |
Crash space? |
Any notes (including comments on topics you want to see discussed) |
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Ross Gardler (OSS Watch / ASF) |
info@oss-watch.ac.uk |
organizer |
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* Cooperation between academic and private sector projects
* Understanding open development
* Why is a non-profit foundation important to defend standards
* How do we teach open development
(no I am not going to talk about all of them, depends what people want)
* BCS Student Contest 2009
* BCS Oxfordshire Schools Web Competition for 2009
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Nick Burch (Torchbox / ASF) |
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organizer |
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J-P Stacey (Torchbox) |
jp.stacey@gmail.com |
organizer |
2-3 |
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Sylwia Presley (1000heads) |
sylwia.presley@gmail.com / http://sylwiapresley.com |
organizer |
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Matt Westcott (Torchbox) |
http://matt.west.co.tt |
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2-3 |
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Gemma Hefferon (1000heads) |
the other side of the big scary monster |
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Pete Ferne (Jiva Technology) |
petef at http://jivatechnology.com |
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Clinton Montague (One Ltd) |
clinton@slightlymore.co.uk http://slightlymore.co.uk |
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(POTENTIALLY) 1-2 |
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Jon Leighton |
http://jonathanleighton.com/ |
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2 on sofas, another 2-3 on floor. |
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Tom Dyson (Torchbox) |
http://throwingbeans.org/
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James Turnbull |
http://jamesturnbull.org/
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Matt Thorne |
matthew.thorne@chilisoft.co.uk
http://chilisoft.co.uk/
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Network bits and pieces |
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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 |
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Andrew Godwin |
http://www.aeracode.org/ |
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Amanda Clark |
http://twitter.com/Hedgewytch |
Happy to help
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James Weiner |
www.twitter.com/jamesweiner
www.unicorncreative.com
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I can supply a projector |
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Kal Ahmed |
www.networkedplanet.com
www.techquila.com
www.twitter.com/kal_ahmed
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Can help out with setup/cleanup |
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Topic: Combining rdfQuery, OpenCalais and some cloud storage to make persistent semantic annotations on web pages. Initial thoughts outlined at http://www.techquila.com/blog/?p=408 |
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Danese Cooper |
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BarCamp Mentor |
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Steve Lee (Full Measure, OSS Watch, Mozilla/GNOME Accessibility) |
steve@fullmeasure.co.uk
http://fullmeasure.co.uk
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2 hands and height that helps ordering drinks at a busy bar. |
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Can introduce the work of the open accessibility community or how to make your app/webapp accessible to more users |
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Ben O'Steen (OULS) |
bosteen [at} gmail dot com |
General hackery and a couple of arduinos |
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Inigo Surguy |
http://surguy.net/ |
Can carry things |
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Ben Weiner |
http://readingtype.org.uk |
Will lend a hand |
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Drew McLellan |
http://edgeofmyseat.com/ |
Have opposable thumbs. |
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Alex Dutton |
barcamp@alexdutton.co.uk
http://www.alexdutton.co.uk/
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1 - 2 (all sans furniture) |
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Ben Ward |
ben @[cat] crouchingbadger.com
http://crouchingbadger.com
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Al Power |
alpower [at] gmail dot com
twitter @alpower
http://alpower.com
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Peter Robinson |
LTG Services, OUCS |
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Would like to speak about Oxford's iTunes University project, and offer some data sources for mash-up building. |
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Prem Ghinde |
http://nearlydone.co.uk/
prem @ the above
http://prem.ghin.de/
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Sponsoring food |
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Martin Smith |
http://maniacmartin.com |
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Marcus Povey |
marcus [snail] elgg.com
http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk
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Happy to help - shift stuff / meet and greet / etc |
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Glyn Wintle |
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ |
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Will probably talk about the Open Rights Group |
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Tim Dobson |
tdobson.net
td at tdobson dot net
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Could really do with a place to crash on friday and saturday. Coming from Manchester. |
NEEDED |
May talk about http://dfey.org or openmoko project |
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Pierre C. |
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Tim Guy |
tguy0001 at gmail dot com |
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Interest in
search,solr,droids,nutch,tika and mashups. |
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Nigel Crawley |
http://twitter.com/ni |
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Proce55ing, Arduino, The Web and Ambient information. |
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Jon Bahan |
jonbahan@googlemail.com |
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Nic Wilkinson |
nick.w2@gmail.com |
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Pete Cooper |
gaekwad [at] gmail |
Access to cheap bits and pieces at Booker cash and carry (Botley Rd is closest), will bring vid camera, film stuff and CC licence footage if that would be useful |
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I can't present on anything ultra technical, but I can present on how to be a better presenter (it's light hearted, useful and always goes down well). |
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Dan Hedges |
http://twitter.com/ejarlewski |
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Christoph Siede ntop |
http://www.c-palb.de |
Can help during week before, if stuff needs to be done. (will help during event as well) |
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Might do something about the robotics projects I do (see website). If it is of interest maybe about writing the simulator (and why we need it). This would definetly include a plea for proper documentation.
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Robert Burrell Donkin
(ASF)
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rdonkin@apache.org
http://www.robertburrelldonkin.name
http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/robertburrelldonkin
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NEEDED |
Any Requests?
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Nick Wicker |
nickwicker@gmail.com |
Can help with non-technical setting up and clearing up. |
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Eamonn Neylon |
http://twitter.com/eneylon |
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won't make the saturday evening, but can do sunday |
httpClient and document processing and review components |
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Oleg Lavrovsky |
oleg.utou.ch |
A local so I can help out week before and all Sunday |
1-2 (one couch) |
Funky wikis, mashups and other scriptness, data formats for visualisations of rainbows and clouds |
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Andrew Wood |
andrew [at] gn [.] apc [.] org |
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The death of Facebook: Opensocial and the new opportunities for small social networks. Progressing a pilot project. |
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Catering
We're batting around a few ideas for Sunday daytime catering. If you've used any Oxford caterers for events in the past, then please add a suggestion below.
| Name |
Telephone number |
What sort of food? |
Cost per head |
| Pizza Express |
01865 790 442 |
Posh pizza! |
£5-7? |
| Sandwiches Plus |
0800 8818 237 |
Sandwiches and buffet |
£5-8 |
| Morton's |
01865 721673 |
Sandwich platters and snacks |
£5-8 |
| Domino's |
01865 200222 |
Pizza |
£8-10 |
* How about getting a crate or two of bread, fillings, toasters etc – build your own lunch – 'open sandwich'? --Pete C
* Also, I'm sure if you speak nicely to Krispy Kreme (Castle complex), they'll do a good deal on large number of doughnuts – I've bought from there before for events, and they threw all manner of freebies in (lanyards, hats, vouchers etc). --Pete C
* Ross: if you can find out who did the catering for the OSS Watch event in October last year, that was *brilliant*. Bear in mind you might have a premium to pay for weekend caterers --Pete C
Core Organisers
If you've any queries, contact one of these people.
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Name
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Organisation |
Email |
| 1 |
Ross Gardler |
OSS Watch / ASF |
info@oss-watch.ac.uk |
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Nick Burch |
Torchbox / ASF |
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JP Stacey |
Torchbox |
jp.stacey@gmail.com |
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Sylwia Presley |
1000heads |
sylwiapresley@gmail.com |
Thanks also to Danese Cooper for keeping an eye on BarCamp Oxford 2009.
