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BarCampApacheOxford

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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, the venue offers accommodation at a reasonable rate, but availability is very limited and must be booked well in advance; check availability here.  There are also plenty of other cheap options for overnight accommodation in Oxford (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.

 

  Name Email / homepage If you can help, say how Crash space? Any notes (including comments on topics you want to see discussed)
1 Ross Gardler (OSS Watch / ASF) info@oss-watch.ac.uk organizer  

* 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
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/      
14 Amanda Clark http://twitter.com/Hedgewytch

Happy to help

    
15 James Weiner

www.twitter.com/jamesweiner

www.unicorncreative.com

 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   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
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.

 

 Can introduce the work of the open accessibility community or how to make your app/webapp accessible to more users
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.    
23 Alex Dutton

barcamp@alexdutton.co.uk

http://www.alexdutton.co.uk/

   1 - 2 (all sans furniture)  
24 Ben Ward

ben @[cat] crouchingbadger.com

http://crouchingbadger.com

      
25 Al Power

alpower [at] gmail dot com

twitter @alpower

http://alpower.com

      
26 Peter Robinson LTG Services, OUCS     Would like to speak about Oxford's iTunes University project, and offer some data sources for mash-up building.
27 Prem Ghinde

http://nearlydone.co.uk/

prem @ the above

http://prem.ghin.de/

 Sponsoring food    
28 Martin Smith http://maniacmartin.com    

 
29 Marcus Povey

marcus [snail] elgg.com

http://www.marcus-povey.co.uk

 Happy to help - shift stuff / meet and greet / etc

 

 
30 Glyn Wintle http://www.openrightsgroup.org/     Will probably talk about the Open Rights Group
31 Tim Dobson

tdobson.net

td at tdobson dot net

 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
32 Pierre C.        
33 Tim Guy tguy0001 at gmail dot com     Interest in
search,solr,droids,nutch,tika and mashups.
34 Nigel Crawley http://twitter.com/ni     Proce55ing, Arduino, The Web and Ambient information.
35  Jon Bahan jonbahan@googlemail.com       
36 Nic Wilkinson nick.w2@gmail.com      
37 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   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).
38 Dan Hedges http://twitter.com/ejarlewski    

 
39 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)  

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.
40

Robert Burrell Donkin

(ASF)

rdonkin@apache.org

http://www.robertburrelldonkin.name

http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/robertburrelldonkin

   NEEDED

Any Requests?
41 Nick Wicker nickwicker@gmail.com Can help with non-technical setting up and clearing up.    
42 Eamonn Neylon http://twitter.com/eneylon   won't make the saturday evening, but can do sunday httpClient and document processing and review components
43 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
44 Andrew Wood andrew [at] gn [.] apc [.] org     The death of Facebook?: Opensocial and the new opportunities for small social networks. Progressing a pilot project.
45 Aidan Skinner aidan at apache org Physically capable but occasionally clumsy   Apache Qpid, Google Summer of Code,
46 Martin Ritchie

ritchiem at apache dot org

http://twitter.com/ritchiem

    

Develop: Apache Qpid

Interest: Home Media/Monitoring/Control,
47 Gregory Stark stark@mit.edu can bring some network bits, etc. one futon -- not available friday. Could present mysql.whynot: Why MySQL sucks and everyone should be using Postgres :)
Could use someone to present the opposite side.
48 Nick Blundell nick at nickblundell dot org dot uk      
49 Peter McCurrach peter.mccurrach at stcatz.ox.ac.uk

can provide help setting up and setting down, and bring food

    
50 Adrian Sutton adrian@symphonious.net Happy to help with general grunt work and plan to spend plenty of time taking photos. Crash space needed Saturday night. :) Use and abuse of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.  Anything around authoring or web content management has potential.
Currently we're limited to 50 attendees, but some people inevitably don't turn up and we have some spare capacity. Please add your names below and we'll do our best to ensure you can be accomodated. We'll let you know in good time if we think there won't be space for you
51 
Richard Morrell
 		 
richard at linuxtec dot co dot uk
 		      
52 
Paul Emsley
 		 
pemsley at gmail dot com
 		     Could present about Coot.
53 Simon Mather simon.mather@zen.co.uk     Enterprise development and industry direction. Continuous integration for large scale projects. Lessons learned on public sector projects. E-learning. Happy to consider alternatives to add to the mix as appropriate.
54 Tony Linde tony.linde@leicester.ac.uk   No, can prob only make it for Sunday

Open development and how it can be used in academia, esp research. Open science, open access, semantic technologies, LOD and the like.
55 Jim Hensman j.hensman@coventry.ac.uk   Needed Interested in open innovation and research. Can talk about new VRE project, patterns and ways of creating and connecting communities.
56 Keerthan Muthurasa muthurasa.keerthan@gmail.com   No Interested in Social Networking Services and Semantic web.
57   julien.buty@gmail.com   No Open-Source enthusiast writing his MSc dissertation on delta-encoding algorithm.
58 Gianugo Rabellino g.rabellino@sourcesense.com   No Open Development, distributed vs. centralized SCM, Apache Way, Software Sustainability
59 Marco Abis m.abis@sourcesense.com   No Open Development & Agile, Open business models
60 Justin Davies justin.davies@merton.ox.ac.uk   1 (floorspace) available) ChemicalMarkupLanguage, ChemInformatics, Mash-Ups
61 Paul Fremantle http://pzf.fremantle.org   - paul@fremantle.org Happy to help out on the day   Apache Member and Committer. Business models, code, SOA, new projects, etc

 

Catering

We'll be providing snacks and drinks througout the day. Lunch will be provided with plenty of vegetarian options, let us know via the google group (see above) if you have any special requirements.

 

There is a bar in the venue and we've asked for it to be opened at 3pm. I'm sure there will be a bunch of us heading off for food and more beer in the evening, so  all your needs should be catered for.

 

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.

 

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