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BarCamp Cape Town was a huge success!

New dates, 16 June 2006 - 17 June 2006.

We have a venue! De Kuilen Primary in Kuilsriver.

It is Done!

Thanks to everyone that came down, without you guys it would have been impossible. Also a big thank you to all our sponsors, thanks for having the vision to support us.

• Stormhoek: Web 2.0's grooviest wine (providing some wine)
• Bryght (sponsoring bandwidth)
• CITI (Lunch)
• Kaluma (sponsoring the venue)
• Quirk (sponsoring the T-shirts!)
• Zangu (Cash)
• Caffeine (sponsoring the coffee)
• RSAWeb iBurst Internet (sponsoring iBurst Wireless Internet!)
• La Vie de Luc (water)
• Huguenot Valley (water)
• Briehan Lombaard (Cash)

For an animation with most of the sponsors (ran at the event):

sponsor_animation.swf

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.

REGISTER NOW VISIT, http://www.mollyguard.com/event/29557407

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

• Conrad Strydom conrad.strydom@gmail.com
• You?

Experiment for BarCamp Cape Town

• Getting an acronym defined by Google

Bar Campers

• Laurence Baldwin
• Wayne Posthumus
• Glen Verran
• Piet Delport
• Adrian Rossouw
• Stephen Tredrea (Comduit)
• Briehan Lombaard
• Christine Stander
• Steve Davies and Rob Lith from Connection Telecom
• Duncan Withers
• Mark Forrester
• Chris Messina (in spirit)
• Damien du Toit
• Dave Duarte
• Nicholas Spagnoletti
• Jean Jordaan
• Brenton Furniss
• Johann Botha
• Jo Duxbury
• Peter Flynn
• Steven van Der Merwe
• Liam Smit
• Laurence Baldwin
• Mike Morris
• Jonathan Carter
• Neil Blakey-Milner
• Evan Summers
• Stefano Rivera
• Francois Loubser
• Raoul Snyman
• Jonathan Hitchcock
• Russell Cloran
• Jeremy Thurgood
• Rafiq Phillips
• Miguel dos Santos
• Jacques Marneweck
• Hein Bekker
• Moe Aboulkheir
• Uno de Waal
• Stephen Tredrea (Comduit)
• Peter Hart-Davis
• Edd De Lange
• Bradley Whittington
• Michael Champanis
• Kosta Kontos
• Ian Gilfillan
• Aubrey Kilian
• Simon Cross
• Melissa Loudon
• Sarah Aitken
• Joey da Silva
• Sam Finnemore
• Michele Sanders
• Waldo Zevenster
• Jared Papier
• Francois Ferreira
• Craig Raw
• Janine Carpenter
• Marleze Visser
• Werner de Bruin
• Andrew Bayley
• Lyle Robertson
• Smallz Mancotywa
• Soph Mouton
• Norman Rasmussen (Can't make Friday, would love to make Saturday, could talk about Jabber/XMPP)
• David E Freitas
• Jason Bagley
• Shane Wilson
• Daniel Avinir
• Rob Gilmour
• Mark Slingsby
• Thomas Andrews
• Andy Rabagliati
• Charles Oertel (Will bring a Freedom Toaster from Friday midday onwards - Dapper, Suse 10.1 loaded)
• Dewet Diener
• David Campey

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 Freedom Toaster will be available for burning distros to CD or DVD
  • Dapper Desktop, Alternative and Server available,
  • Suse 10.1 (5 CDs)
  • Go Open TV show on DVD
  • Lots more, so bring blank disks
• A look at some useful PEAR packages, or something about MySQL? What would interest people?
• XHTML and CSS (was: HTML for visual markup: what's wrong with it, what should it be and what can we do about it?)
  • What is it?
  • Why should we use it?
  • Does it make business sense?

More examples:

• Web 2.0 and its emergence in South Africa
• 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)
• CITI (Lunch)
• Kaluma (sponsoring the venue)
• Quirk (sponsoring the T-shirts!)
• Zangu (Cash)
• Caffeine (sponsoring the coffee)
• RSAWeb (sponsoring iBurst Wireless Internet!)
• La Vie de Luc (water)
• Huguenot Valley (water)
• Briehan Lombaard (Cash)

For an animation with most of the sponsors (ran at the event):

sponsor_animation.swf

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);

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devkungfoo.com

Neverness

Tectonic

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