BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. BarCampBristol2 will be an independent unconference for all kinds of geeks (inc. web, software, hardware, new-media, A.I., Gaming, Other etc etc). (there was a BarCampBristol in 2007 which this one is a followup to). Bristol is one of the finest cities in the UK, famous for Bristol Glass, the Harbour, The Bristolian Dialect, Cider, the Wurzels and Justin Lee Collins.
Event details
Planning
- Gather Core Organisers, Helpers and Interest
- Find a date
- Find a location and sponsors
- Sort out food
| When | Where | Sponsors | Website |
| Sometime between May 2008 and November 2008 (maybe the weekend before/after BarCampLondon4 if in November) (LF - I believe there was discussion of it being between Easter and the start of the summer holidays, last time we did Friday night to Saturday night to make it easier for those with families to attend) | Somewhere in/near Bristol Centre. Location will need: Wifi, to be ok with us storing (last time we had most of the food delivered ready to eat at eating time) and eating food, and to hold between 30 and 50 people (based on attendance last time) No one stayed over last time, but that is also a possibility. | (not-yet-please contact a core-organiser if you want to sponsor) I suggest the way it happened before is that the core organisers contacted as many potential sponsors as possible. | (not-yet) |
Core organisers
Helpers
Interested in presenting/demoing/attending?
Then add your name to this list:
| | Name | Session Topic | Other topics you would like to see | Company/Affiliation | Email and/or Website |
| 1 | Daniel Lewis | "The Data Web and Data Spaces" | Machine Learning on the Web | OpenLink Software | danieljohnlewis at gmail dot com / Daniel Lewis - Blog |
| 2 | Jon Hadley | ? | Gaming, Day-to-day tools | Freelance | jon-hadley.com |
| 3 | Pete Ferne | TBD | Service design, Product design, Urban design | Bristol Wireless | petef at bristol wireless dot net, http://petef.org/wp/ |
| 4 | stefan burt | object oriented programming | oracle mysql database design, graphic design general | (company-here) | one.green.squirrel@gmail.com |
| 5 | Thilak Rashid | TBD | Databases | http://travel.luxembourgian.com/ | upcomingmanager@gmail.com |
| 6 | Jamie Anderson | DBA | OOPS Start-ups | http://www.dodge-carbon.com.tw/ | greenfur at gmail . com |
| 7 | Adam Cheasley | (topic-here) | (topic-here) | (company-here) | adam dot cheasley at gmail dot com |
| 8 | Kym Kinlin | TBD | Game Dev | http://www.adrac.co.uk | website@adrac.co.uk |
| 9 | Phil Wilson | TBA | What's going on in the Bristol tech scene? Practical Data Portability | http://www.bath.ac.uk | phil at philwilson.org |
| 10 | Giles Turnbull | Inside the minds of normal people; also possibly something vague about the future of media and online journalism but don't hold me to that | Oh, anything, I'm not fussy | Freelance | http://gilest.org |
| 11 | Darren Beale | Something on PHP, Symfony or running Debian Etch and, erm, PHP again | Any web geekery with a commericial angle | http://siftware.co.uk | http://bealers.com |
| 12 | Josie Fraser | Web 2.0 for social participation/organisation/activism | Urban games & tech arts | social & educational technologist | http://fraser.typepad.com/socialtech |
| 13 | Stephen Pope | ALT.NET - .NET without the M$ flag-waving | ?? | .. | http://www.ultramagnus.org ( emargee / googlemail dot com ) |
| 14 | Joe Leech | User experience | Running quick and simple user tests | http://joeleech.net | xxx |
| 15 | Alex Francis | Sth to do w/ Perl | Ajax, django, DSLs | IMDb | http://alexfrancis.org.uk |
| n | (name-here) | (topic-here) | (topic-here) | (company-here) | (email/web-here) |
Where To Stay
(List of where to stay will be released after we find a location)
