Introduction
BarCampBrighton3 is an unconference to be held on 6th - 7th September 2008. It will follow up the very enjoyable BarCampBrighton & BarCampBrighton2.
The story so far
We'll be returning to the University of Sussex as a venue.
The venue will be the Student Union which means we'll have 24hr access with support from university facilities people.
People involved
Mark Kirby
Glen Jones
Jonathan Markwell
Vicky Walberg
Premasagar Rose
Paul Silver
Offers of Assistance
Mark Ng - happy to come down the night before and be a dogsbody (might need a floor/sofa to kip on, though)
Vicky Lamburn - very happy to muck in where necessary!
Ron Hose (TokBox) - can set a video-conference at the event for anyone who can't make it down here.
Jay Caines-Gooby - Might be able to help with the wifi setup but can't stay for the duration!
Barry Tucker - happy to help out where needed!
Sponsorship
Thanks to all our sponsors:
Gold (Paying for University of Sussex security staff, porters and cleaners)
MySpace
Silver (Paying for food and drink)
Mini-Sponsors (Paying for Student Union staff and additional costs)
Tickets
All tickets are sold out - if you can't make it, please email Glenn Jones: glenn.jones AT madgex.com
Car Sharing
If you are looking for a lift, or fellow passengers to share the petrol costs, please list yourself and your starting location below.
Alistair Macdonald - St Albans, Hertfordshire (driver or passenger)
Attendees
Attending? Add your name here, and if there are any topics you might want to talk or hear about feel free to mention them too. Don't forget - you need a ticket to attend, marking yourself as attending here or on upcoming does not get you in.
- Mark Kirby - interested in hearing about Mobile technology, gig listings online, Wordpress as a CMS.
- Mark Ng
- Paul Silver - will be talking about how Social sites deal with the death of members. I'm interested in hearing about real world use of Amazon S3 / EC2 behind websites and anything with a mix of psychology
- Laura Dewis - happy to talk about the Open Educational Resources movement - free access to university materials online and open source learning technologies, use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning
- Cennydd Bowles - talking about: design, cognitive psychology or booze. Keen to hear about anything that blows my fricking mind.
- Dan Donald - talking about identity and the socialisation of the web; interested to soak up my first BarCamp ;)
- Chris Skardon - Happy to talk about Source control practices (branching) and/or the Managed Addin Framework for .NET 3+ (if anyone wants to hear about them :))
- Tantek Çelik - would like to do a session with folks on topics related to: microformats, Social Network Portability, use of microformats for education and learning or even more esoteric topics like Body Optimization, productivity, reducing/eliminating use of email, buildering, how to be a super hero, etc.
- Barry Tucker - talking about either Global Carrying Capacity or BIM (not decided yet), looking forward to it (although a bit anxious about presenting).
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