BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering of people to share and learn in an open environment. More information is available on the BarCamp website and on Wikipedia. Information on last years Barcamp is available at BarCampBelfast07.
If you are interested in attending, please register below. If you are interested in presenting at the event please register & claim your topic. Speakers are not pre-booked by the organisers - anyone can (& should!) talk. The key to allow editing is c4mp.
Event Details
When?
Saturday 21st June, 9am - 5pm
Where?
Queens University Belfast, Peter Froggatt Centre (map)
You can also add BarCamp Belfast '08 to your events on Facebook or Upcoming.
Schedule
Friday 20th June
- 18:00 - Official pre-meetup at McHughs.
Saturday 21st June
- 9:00 - 10:00 - Session-setup (registering your session) & networking
- 10:00 - 12:30 - Morning Sessions and Workshops
- 12:30 - 2:00 - Lunch
- 2:00 - 5:00 - Afternoon Sessions and Workshops
- 5:00 - 5:30 - Wrap up and clean up
- 5:30 - late - Pub
The entire conference will also be streaming live online.
Planners
Andy McMillan (t) (goodonpaper.org)
David R. Newman (Queen's University Belfast)
Sponsors
If you are interested in sponsoring BarCamp Belfast '08, please get in touch.
Volunteers
If you are interesting in volunteering to help with the organizing and running of BarCamp Belfast '08, please add your name.
- Darragh Doyle Happy to help :)
- Tracy Dempsey Just tell me what you need!
- Aventure Host The local webhosting company since 2003!
- Matt Johnston Grumpy old sod
Speakers
| Name | Location | Email | Topic |
| Andy McMillan | Belfast | andy at goodonpaper dot org | Undecided |
| David Rice | Belfast | me at davidjrice dot co dot uk | Something Rubyish |
| Brian Cleland | Newry | brian_cleland at yahoo dot com | Open Source Trends |
| Florian Hollerweger | Belfast | fhollerweger01 at qub dot ac dot uk | Pure Data |
| Nick Fitzsimons | Belfast | nick at pennydistribution dot com | The New Music Economy |
| Gráinne Lennon | Newry | grainne dot lennon at intertradeireland dot com | InterTradeIreland Seedcorn Competition |
| Emma Persky | London | emma dot persky at gmail dot com | Hand Gesture Recognition |
| Tracy Dempsey | Belfast | tracy at soulambition dot co dot uk | Motivation/Resilience/Creative problem solving for when it all gets to you... |
| Daniel McLaughlin | Muff | dan dot mcl at gmail dot com | Server and Network Monitoring using Nagios (Open Source Software) |
| Lee Munroe | Belfast | lee at leemunroe dot com | Something web designy |
| Andrew Gribben | Lisburn | andrew at tvisted dot net | The Parallel World of Speciality Coffee |
| Grannymar in conversation with Darragh Doyle | North and South | darraghdoyle at gmail dot com | Blogging: what it's about, how you should (and shouldn't), how to enjoy it, sharing your stories, selling your brand and ideas, building your audience. Using blogs and social networking together for your benefit. This will be an introduction and conversation we invite you to participate in and share your own experience, expertise and ideas. |
| Paul May | Belfast/Dublin | paul dot may at design by front dot com | Everything You Know is Likely to be Wrong - Perspectives/Strategies on creating value and remaining relevant in the technology industry. |
| Brian O'Neill | Belfast | brian at freshideas dot ie | Work Less, Earn More - Successful Freelancing |
| Gerard McBreen | Belfast | ged at fable dot co dot uk | http://www.digitalcircle.org What is Digital Circle, and why it matters - Adobe Flex RIA development |
| Richard Jolly | Belfast | richard@richardjolly.tv | Webcasting - What I've Learnt So Far |
| David Newman | Belfast | d.r.newman at qub.ac.uk | An electronic brainstorming session on Open Education: from the use of FOSS in education, to what Learning 2.0 might be like |
| Simon McCartney | Dollingstown | simon@mccartney.ie | Rapid Web Service development in Rails (XML-RPC & SOAP using Action Web Services & SOAP4R) |
Requested Topics
If there's anything you'd specifically like to hear on at BarCamp, request it below.
If you can fulfill a request, please remove it and add your name to the Speakers list.
- Ruby On Rails
- Content Management Systems
- Open Source Software
- Freelancing
- Microformats
- Social Networking
- Blogging from a technical aspect (an introductory talk will take place)
- Virtualisation
- Disaster Recovery & Protection
- What is Digital Circle, and why it matters
- Future of the Desktop Interface
Technical specifications
We will have projectors available in both rooms with standard DVI connections. A few DVI to VGA adapters will be knocking about for those bringing Macs, but it's still a good idea to pack a spare. Free wireless internet will be provided on the day, and we'll try to have power strips running along the seating for laptops, etc.
Linux Hardware Session
Bring along your devices that run Linux, and show them off. If you can bring something, add it to the following list. (and wonder why it has to be Linux?)
| Hardware | What it is | Brought along by |
| Asus eeePC | £200 very portable mini-laptop, running Linux | David Newman |
| FIC Neo1973 | OpenMoko open source mobile 'phone, everything is programmable | David Newman |
MythTV box | this very flexible personal video recorder is broken at the moment | David Newman |
| Another Asus eeePC | With 2GB RAM and Ubuntu, it makes all the difference | Andrew Gribben |
| Nokia N800 Internet Tablet | running maemo (I have an eee too but they're so last year! | Matt Johnston |
| Yet Another Asus eeePC | With 512MB RAM and 4GB storage, good enough for kids! | Matt Johnston |
| 4x4x2" Micro Server | CentOS 5 200Mhz Micro Server | Aventure Host |
Attendees
- Andy McMillan (t) (goodonpaper.org)
- Matt Johnston t(blog, Mac-Sys,NiMUG)
- Darryl Collins (Banjax Ltd - ask me about eCommerce or blackstar!)
- Brian Cleland (OpenIreland)
- David Rice (davidjrice.co.uk)
- Lee Munroe (leemunroe.com, The Big Word Project)
- Paul Dundas (BCS Belfast) - unless I'm away that week, like always seems to happen for FOSS events
- Darragh Doyle (blogger, social network ideas)
- Grannymar (award winning blogger)
- Paul Browne (blogger, Java Consultant)
- David Newman (Queen's University Management School)
- Richard Jolly (film maker, webcaster)
- Steven Wilkin (sickbiscuit.com)
- Philip Orr (homeofserendipity.com)
- Paul Anthony (webdistortion.com)
- Florian Hollerweger (Sonic Arts Research Centre Belfast)
- Steve Orr (NISP CONNECT)
- Kevin Noonan (Calbane)
- Gráinne Lennon (Seedcorn Competition)
- Iain Holmes (Openedhand)
- Matt Keenan (OpCode Solutions)
- Nick Fitzsimons (Penny Distribution)
- Emma Persky (t) - (Traveller with a Tale)
- Peter Armstrong (SpiralHosting.com)
- Jonathan McDowell
- Andrew Gribben (t) - (Developer, Blogger)
- Stan Hoben FD
- Phil O'Kane (t) (iced coffee)
- Conor McCluskey (conormccluskey.com)
- Tracy Dempsey (Soul Ambition - life, business and arts coaching)
- Lesley Woods (Biznet EIS)
- Daniel McLaughlin (What Of It Blog)
- Russell McQuillan (Extreme Scouting, Bitbuzz Wi-Fi)
- Kieran Graham (Reason to Design)
- Will King (location,mapping,mobile)
- Danielle McDougall (Aventure Host)
- Michael Kitchen (Aventure Host)
- Michael Wall (Michael Wall, Codefixer Software)
- James Gallagher (my blog, musaro)
- Paul May (FRONT)
- Brian O'Neill (Freshideas)
- Niall J Hewitt
- Paul Campbell (PABCAS)
- Gerard McBreen (Fable Ltd)
- Davy McDonald (Davy McDonald Creative)
- Eoghan McCabe (Contrast)
- Simon McCartney (http://www.mccartney.ie)
- Brian Flanagan (needs redesign)
- Steve Rushe
Tagging
Please use "barcampbelfast" on Flickr, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, Technorati etc.
