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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 with additional contribution from 1000heads to run a BarCamp in Oxford on April. The fun will start on the evening of April 4th with a geeky meal followed by pub, 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

(See the bottom of this page for a map showing walking routes to the venue)

The venue is the University Club, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ, 01865 271 044. 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).

 

A map showing the centre of oxford, with walking routes to the venue from the rail and main bus stations, the hotels suggested in the "accommodation" section, and from the Park & Ride bus stops.

 

Saturday Evening

For anyone arriving early, we'll be meeting in Jamals in Jericho for a meal from 7.30pm, and then heading to one of the many nice, nearby pubs afterwards. Do come along!

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

Schedule

A photo of the schedule board, taken at random intervals, can be found on Flickr tagged #barcampapacheoxford.

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. Anyone without crash space sorted should let it be known at the meal on Saturday, and we can pair people up then.

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.

 

We have contacted those of you who indicated the need for a crash space and it look like you are all sorted, but if you still need support, let us know!

 

Attendees

Attendee numbers are limited owing to funding for things like catering. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors we have managed to increase the maximum attendance from 50, so we're please to report that everyone who has registered below will have a space.

Also mention 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.

Finally, 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/

Projector, Transport on the day if required.   I am bringing a projector.
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 Peter Robinson LTG Services, OUCS     Would like to speak about Oxford's iTunes University project, and offer some data sources for mash-up building.
26 Prem Ghinde

http://nearlydone.co.uk/

prem @ the above

http://prem.ghin.de/

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

 

28 Marcus Povey

marcus [snail] elgg.com

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

@mapkyca

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

 

 

29 Glyn Wintle http://www.openrightsgroup.org/     Will probably talk about the Open Rights Group
31 Pierre C.        
32 Tim Guy tguy0001 at gmail dot com     Interest in
search,solr,droids,nutch,tika and mashups.
33 Nigel Crawley http://twitter.com/ni     Proce55ing, Arduino, Open Sound Control, The Web and Ambient information.
34  Jon Bahan jonbahan@googlemail.com       
35 Nic Wilkinson nick.w2@gmail.com      
36 Dan Hedges http://twitter.com/ejarlewski    

 

37

Robert Burrell Donkin

(ASF)

rdonkin@apache.org

http://www.robertburrelldonkin.name

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

  (now arranged)

Any Requests? Opinions?

  • Freeing The Cloud
  • Esme: Ten Reasons To Get Involved (micromessaging in Scala)
  • Apache Software Foundation: Ten Years Young
  • Hadoop And Friends
  • Semantic Content Management
38 Nick Wicker nickwicker@gmail.com Can help with non-technical setting up and clearing up.    
39 Eamonn Neylon http://twitter.com/eneylon   won't make the saturday evening, but can do sunday httpClient and document processing and review components
40 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
41 Andrew Wood andrew [at] gn [.] apc [.] org     The death of Facebook?: Opensocial and the new opportunities for small social networks. Progressing a pilot project.
42 Aidan Skinner aidan at apache org Physically capable but occasionally clumsy  

Apache Qpid

Google Summer of Code

git

PackageKit

Philosophy

43 Martin Ritchie

ritchiem at apache dot org

http://twitter.com/ritchiem

   

Develop: Apache Qpid

Interest: Home Media/Monitoring/Control,

44 Nick Blundell nick at nickblundell dot org dot uk      
45 Peter McCurrach peter.mccurrach at stcatz.ox.ac.uk

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

   
46 Adrian Sutton adrian@symphonious.net Happy to help with general grunt work and plan to spend plenty of time taking photos.   Use and abuse of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.  Anything around authoring or web content management has potential.
47
Richard Morrell
 
richard at linuxtec dot co dot uk
 
     
48
Paul Emsley
 
pemsley at gmail dot com
 
    Could present about Coot.
49 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.
50 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.

51 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.
52 Keerthan Muthurasa muthurasa.keerthan@gmail.com   No Interested in Social Networking Services and Semantic web.
53 Julien Buty julien.buty@gmail.com   No Open-Source enthusiast writing his MSc dissertation on delta-encoding algorithm.
54 Gianugo Rabellino g.rabellino@sourcesense.com   No Open Development, distributed vs. centralized SCM, Apache Way, Software Sustainability
55 Marco Abis m.abis@sourcesense.com   No Open Development & Agile, Open business models
56 Justin Davies justin.davies@merton.ox.ac.uk   1 (floorspace) available) ChemicalMarkupLanguage, ChemInformatics, Mash-Ups
57 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
58 Ross Clegg rossjclegg at gmail dot com Can lend a hand   Could talk about misuse of Excel spreadsheets/VBA
59 Ben Werdmuller

benwerd@gmail.com

http://benwerd.com/

Happy to help in any capacity   Can speak about running a large open source project, communities, social networking, the open stack, freelancing, running your own tech business
60 Miles Berry mberry at bcs dot org   No Open source in the schools sector, particularly web based applications.
61 Cliff Skolnick   ASF No

 

62 Vijay Bisnauth   Happy to help:- meet and greet, help setup, also I am an Oxford local   Nope, newbee to geek meets
63 Amir Nettler        
64 Kaliya Hamlinr kaliya(at)mac (dot) com,
was registered yesturday but got ereased some how.
http://www.identitywoman.net
  staying with danese cooper happy to talk about openid, info cards other identity stuff

Anyone registering below this line should be aware that food may be limited for you. Of course there is an answer to this problem, if you bring some snacks with you there will be more to go around. So anyone below this line will be expected to bring some additional food and drinks.
65 Graham Klyne http://www.ninebynine.org    I live out-of-town, but can offer sleeping-space & transport.  2-3 on beds, and more floor space  
66 Andrew Luke

drew.luke (at) gmail.com

http://wikiworldbook.com

http://andyluke.livejournal.com

extra power cable 1 bed available  
67 Ji Ho PARK

pcs007 (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk

http://livej.blogspot.com

     
68 Kevin Carmody kevin@skinofstars.com     Considering coming down for a few hours.

 

 

 

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.

 

On the Saturday evening before, we're going to Jamals for a meal from 7.30pm, followed by drinks in a nearby pub. The curry house is a short walk from the Station, Bus Station and the centre of town.

 

Accomodation

These are some suggestions for accommodation in Oxford. 

1.  Parklands B&B:  reportedly reasonable.  Around a 20-minute walk from the venue, or a 5-minute bus ride plus a 10-minute walk.  Around £90 per room per night. 

2.  Rewley House (University's Continuing Education Dept.):  offers quite basic, inexpensive accomodation.  Around a 15-minute walk from the venue.  Roughly £65 per room per night. 

3.  Best Western Linton Lodge Hotel:  no personal reports, but reasonable location similar to that of Parklands B&B.  Around £60-£70 per room per night. 

4.  Holiday Inn Pear Tree:  good accommodation, but less convenient location,  on the northern outskirts of the city, by the ring road.  The Pear Tree Park & Ride service runs from near the hotel, reaching the centre of Oxford in 10 minutes; the venue is a further 10-minute walk.  Rooms are usually over £100 per night.  Please note the park and ride service does not run past 18:57 on Sunday, nor after 23:30 on Saturday. 

5.  The Buttery Hotel:  reportedly reasonable accommodation, directly in the centre of Oxford, and around a 10-minute walk from the venue.  Between £55 and £90 per night, depending on room type. 

If you would like more advice, please contact any of the organisers, as below.

 

Travel

From airports:

Heathrow and Gatwick:  There is a good bus service direct to Oxford's central Gloucester Green station; see here 

Stansted:  There are indirect services run by National Express, through London or Heathrow Airport; see here 

Birmingham:  There is a frequent rail service from Birmingham International Airport to Oxford Rail Station; see here

For details of travel from other airports, please contact the airport for information.

 

Travel by rail:

Trains to Oxford all arrive at Oxford Rail Station.  For details of trains, please see here

 

Travel by inter-city bus:

Buses to Oxford generally stop near the centre of the city, often at the Gloucester Green bus station.  Some services also stop slightly further from the centre, in Oxpens Road.

 

From London specifically:

Bus:  two services run frequently; the Oxford Tube and the Oxford Express. Travel time is around 2 hours. 

Rail:  trains run from London Paddington, and take around 1 hour (though some stop more often, taking around 1.5 hours).  See here

 

By car:

On-street parking is difficult to find in Oxford, and is limited to 1 or 2-hours.  Some details can be found here.  

There are also some car parks where a car can be left all day for a fee (see the above link).  The most convenient locations for the venue are at Gloucester Green and Worcester Street. 

There are also park-and-ride services, but please be warned that these stop in early evening on Sunday.  See here.

 

Getting to the venue:

Taxis are available at both the rail station and Gloucester Green bus station.  By foot, the venue is around 10 minutes from the centre of the city, 15 minutes from Gloucester Green bus station, and around 25 from the rail station.  Please see the map in the next section. 

Buses from the rail station to the city centre are available, and cut the walk to around 10 minutes.  Services include the S3, which runs from the station to George Street during the day; see here.

 

Map of Oxford

A map showing the centre of oxford, with walking routes to the venue from the rail and main bus stations, the hotels suggested in the "accommodation" section, and from the Park & Ride bus stops.

 

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.