Bar Camp Cape Town
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New dates, 16 June 2006 - 17 June 2006.
We have a venue! De Kuilen Primary in Kuilsriver.
What's The Big Idea?
The idea is to bring the South African tech/geek/creative community together under one roof in the informal "un-conference" environment as per the Bar Camp Ethos. Think of it as Open-Source conferencing, this is YOUR conference, you present, you discuss, you attend, you spread the word.
When
Friday, 16 June 2006 - 17 June 2006
Time
16/06/06: 9:00 through the nite
17/06/06: 9:00 - 17:00
(If there is some interest, we may have a social the night before?)
Where
De Kuilen Primary School's Hall in Kuilsriver. Thanks to Kaluma for sponsoring.
Cost
Free. But there is a catch! Bring yourself and be prepared to contribute. We are encouraging you to come and talk, pair up with a buddy if you need to, and post on the mailing list to find out if you can help out.
Download a poster and put it up at your university, place of work etc.
Register
We are taking registration using mollyguard. Space is limited so register now to avoid disappointment!
Register below:
http://www.mollyguard.com/event/29557407
Get in touch
Email one of the organisers, provide email, phone or IM details and we will make sure you stay in the loop.
Join the BarCamp and BarCampCapeTown mailing lists, email barcampcapetown@gmail.com or blog about the event with this tag: BarCampCapeTown
Organizers
Experiment for BarCamp Cape Town
Bar Campers
Add yourself...! (name, url)
Proposed Sessions
We are encouraging everyone to present something or help with a presentation.
- Introduction to Drupal
- Introduction to Plone
- Introduction to Joomla! OR Things to face up to using an open source CMS
- The business of tech: Creating "Startup Culture"
- Enterprise Java, Java web development, Java GUI development, Java tools
- Introduction to Podcasting by Glen Verran from The ZA Show Podcast
- Introduction to PHP
- Python
- A talk on Search Marketing
- A look at some useful PEAR packages, or something about MySQL? What would interest people?
More examples:
- Web 2.0 and its emergence in South Africa
- HMTL for visual markup: what's wrong with it, what should it be and what can we do about it?
- Beating the cost of telephone with VOIP
- Discussion on Wifi meshes.
- Ruby on rails demo
- The value of RSS
(What level of experience are we looking at here? It'd be nice to see some 'Good project management practices using OSS', but it'd be wasted if everyone is pretty much up to
speed with SVN and Trac, et al.)
Session Structure
We will have at least two official rooms running concurrently. You can pick where you want to attend.
Structure: 30 minute slots (including discussion) , 10 minute break every hour.
Proposed Activities
- Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Drinks
- Live blogging, video, IRC chat, podcasting, and the works.
- Fishbowl events
- Speedgeeks
- Add yours here..
What we need
Please let me know if you can help with any of these.
- Projectors and Screens
- PA Systems
- Wifi Network infrastructure
- Some sort of internet connectivity (Iburst, Sentech, 3G, Long-Range Wifi?)
- Help with T-Shirts
- Help with a flyer design and printing
- Audio and video equipment for recording
- Food
- Coffee
- Chairs and Desks
Sponsors (Who/What)
Confirmed:
*Stormhoek: Web 2.0's grooviest wine (providing some wine)
*Bryght (sponsoring bandwidth)
*Kaluma (sponsoring the venue)
*Quirk (sponsoring the T-shirts!)
*Caffeine (sponsoring the coffee)
Thats it for now, please blog about this event and use the tag: BarCampCapeTown
Who's talking about us?
daemon
uberellis.com
coda.coza
Mark's Digital Farm
A Group of Web AddiCT(s);
Digg it!
powertrip
devkungfoo.com
Neverness
Tectonic
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