This BarCampKazan conference is going to be one of the first (or actually first!) BarCamp-like conference in Russia. The idea to make it is 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.

Event details

When

August 4th, 2007 (14:00 GMT+3 Kazan bus-stop "Gorodok")

Where

Russia, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Ershova street.

Location

So it's in Kazan city, on Ershova street (the Russian name for this house is: "ulica Ershova 49V"). The location of house, hosting BarCampKazan is marked with circle on map that is available for downloading, the map is prepared using Google Maps.

Where to stay?

Sponsors

Voodoo Ventures, LLC.

Flatsourcing, Inc.

Tatsoft

Lixil Graphics

Schedule for 4th of August, the day of BarCampKazan conference

• 11:00 AM GMT+3 - planners meeting meeting in house where conference is going to take place in order to prepare for conference.

• 02:00 PM GMT+3 - campers who don't know direction gather in the public place, e.g. on the bus-stop not too far from the building.

• 03:00 PM GMT+3 - campers prepare for conference, discuss everything prior to reporting on various subjects.

• 05:00 till 07:00 PM GMT+3 - BarCampKazan campers share with each other ideas and perform reporting.

• 07:00-evening PM GMT+3 - After-conference activities.

Proposed Sessions

• A wise man once said: "The World is Flat" - A session presented by Oleg Kurnosov & Chris Schultz detailing the six year development of their global partnership. Discussion of The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman. "What Friedman means by "flat" is "connected": the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet."

• Career path - how to set it up in the IT company

• 9 mistakes of managers or how come projects get delayed

• How and why to become a good project manager

• Recording of Ruby on Rails vs PHP and Ruby on Rails vs Java in Russian

• Delphi for PHP

Planners

• Oleg Kurnosov
• Timur Vafin
• Alexey Mamaev
• Chris Schultz
• Evgeny Stepanischev

Participants (aka Campers)

• Oleg Kurnosov
• Timur Vafin
• Alexey Mamaev
• Chris Schultz
• Evgeny Stepanischev
• Pavel Radaev
• Bulat Karimov
• Ravil Gatin
• Evgeniy Petrov
• Marat Gizatullin
• Yaroslav Dmitriev
• Artem Golubev
• Galina Musina

• Adriano Gasparri (not sure!)
• Eugene Katsevman
• Denis Ibaev
• Dinershtein Leonid
• Radik Aksyanov

Flickr

Photos by Oleg Kurnosov

YouTube

Videos by Oleg Kurnosov

Who's blogging?

BarCampKazan annoucing by Voodoo Ventures

BarCampKazan annoucing by Tatsoft

BarCampKazan second annoucing by Tatsoft

BarCampKazan complete report

Tech

Wifi

Projector

White Boards

Photo

Video

Audio

Skype

Non-tech

Coffee/Tea

Tables and chairs