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.
Event details
Registration
- BarCamp Leeds 2007 is full! There are no more tickets, no more waiting list spaces; hopefully we'll see those who didn't make it at the 2008 event!
- Discussion is taking place either on this wiki or in the Facebook group, but make sure to register via Eventwax too.
When
- 17th November, 2007 (this date is now confirmed!)
- Doors open at 9:30, event starts at 10:00
Where
--Car Share
- Anyone fancy car sharing? Do our bit for the environment?
- Manchester - ManojRanaweera - Cheadle Hulme, Stockport (driver or passenger)--
Hotels & Accomodation
- There's an Etap hotel near the river for £32/night.
Who's talking about BarCamp Leeds?
Sponsors (confirmed)
Schedule (tentative)
Each session will be 30 minutes with a ten minute break in between. We expect to have 3-4 session rooms, so we can accomodate 27-36 sessions throughout the day.
| Time | Main Room | Boardroom | Classroom | Mystery Fourth Room |
| 10:00-10:30am | Intro | xx | xx | xx |
| 10:30-11:00am | Board Wrangling | Board Wrangling | Board Wrangling | Board Wrangling |
| 11:00-10:30am | Plusnet story & The Netstart (Lee Strafford) | TV3.0 Harnessing the Power of Fans (Mark Sailes) | Future Forecasting (Ben Dalton) | xx |
| 11:40-12:10pm | openstreetmap | giving web a voice | source control saves lives | web2.0 and building aco creation company by ian green |
| 12:20-12:50pm | getting lost with gps | is that a computer in your pocket - ian hay | drupal | |
| 1:00- 2:00pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2-230 | DemoCamp Ottowa | y futureology sucks paul robinson | beyond wikis post production | |
| 240-310 | DemoCamp Leeds | how to kill google - collaborative mapping and super local search | intro to wordpress by simon wheatley | any knuckhead can setup a website - creating our experience social networking |
| 320-350 | examples of my projects in HCI R&D compvision, AI (darpa) | rockstar leeds q&a | symphony - php doesn’t have to be creap | xx |
| 4-430 | break | break | break | break |
| 430-5 | xx | from zero to game in 40 mins | seo site clinic | Regeneration |
| 510-540 | mind over matter - dan handerker | stuff u may not know but might | social networking | xx |
| 550-620 | gungho startups - guy fraser | discuss html css frameworkds for web app dev | live coding and intro ruby - caius durling | |
| 630-7 | outro | | | |
| 7 to 9 | after party | | | |
| 9 to late | after after party | | | |
crowdsourcing for profit
show me the money and building for nichts
What To Bring
- Laptop
- All the chargers/cables you'll need
- Camera
- An idea for a session/presentation/talk
What We'll Provide
"NOTE: if anyone presenting needs anything specific from the network please can you let me know by email ASAP so we can ensure the right ports etc are turned on. The default set up is a little limited but with notice we will try an accommodate your needs."
Accessibility
- Old Broadcasting House is newly refitted and entirely wheelchair accessible.
- Some talks will be simultaneously translated into British Sign Language
Proposed Sessions
- Add proposed topics here. The schedule is decided on the day, by the people there, so this is by no means final!
- Intelligent human-computer interfaces and their possibilities - Reinhold Behringer
- PlusNet ~ from start-up to £67m in 10 years, passing on the wisdom and hopefully not the pain :-) & TheNetStart (Project Sahara)~ Building for all our futures - Lee Strafford
- From startup to £45m in 8 years (Learn from my mistakes :-) ) or Launching BT BizBox a small business CRM solution in 5 weeks - Dean Sadler
- SEO Site Clinic - - Dominic Hodgson and Mark Rushworth
- Why big companies are missing a trick by ignoring social media - Ian Green
- Ladybank Company of Distillers - building a real co-creation business through the internet - Ian Green
- Unleashing social media and technology for the good of local communities - Stuart Bruce
- From Zero to Game in 30 Minutes - Tom Scott
- From a Mobile Telephone to a Computer - a Reality Dysfunction Ian Hay
- Why Wikis suck for post production environment? Capturing the essence of document interactivity - a paradigm shift Manoj Ranaweera - reference
- Drupal - Isriya Paireepairit presentation
- Conquering Time and Space - A survivors guide to distributed dev team management - Ian Pringle
- ePaper? ShmePaper! - (how almost buying an ebook reader made me realise how cool the technology of books is) - 5m40s micropresentation, Guy Dickinson
- LiveCoding: Introduction to Ruby & TextMate - Caius Durling
- How technology can drive regeneration in Northern Cities - Inventya, Valerie De Leonibus
- One of three talks that you can choose from now, Paul Robinson
- Dude! Where's my hash? - a frank look at OS X after jumping from Windows and my experiences of the past 6 months - Dan Hardiker
- Mind over Matter - How to take control of your state of mind, and of others - Dan Hardiker
- Feed Mailer - (A little demo of Feed Mailer and a round up of the upcoming features) - John Slater & Chris Richardson (This is not 100% confirmed)
- Doodol: Collaborative Mapping & Hyperlocal Search in the Post-Google Era - Ikem Nzeribe
- Greylisting with Kamaelia - 96% spam reduction in one easy step - Michael Sparks
- Making concurrency easy & fun - Michael Sparks
- I've absolutely no idea, but I'd like to appear willing - Tom Smith (Slides here)
- An XHTML/CSS framework for web application development? - Steve Ireland
- Maybe a bit of discussion about future forecasting - paleo-futures, that sort of thing, and a quick exercise - Ben Dalton (seems to resonate with Paul Robinson's post above - should be fun)
- symfony: PHP doesn't have to be crap... and how we used it to bring Web 2.0 to Edge Hill University - Michael Nolan (Slides)
- Openstreetmap Leeds - Tim Waters (Slides)
Topics I would like to hear about
- Regeneration - where's tech in the regeneration of Northern cities?
- Where does it all go after there's 50 video/photo/social sites?
* 1st Rule: You do talk about Bar Camp.
* 2nd Rule: You do blog about Bar Camp.
* 3rd Rule: If you want to present, you must write your topic and name in a presentation slot.
* 4th Rule: Only three word intros.
* 5th Rule: As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
* 6th Rule: No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
* 7th Rule: Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until they run into another presentation slot.
* 8th Rule: If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present. (Ok, you don't really HAVE to, but try to find someone to present with, or at least ask questions and be an interactive participant.)
Planners
Volunteers
- Dean Sadler - just let me know what help you need.
- Ross Brown - stick me on the list, sounds like a great idea - will pass the word 'round.
- John Slater - I would be happy to help with anything i can, let me know.
- Linda Broughton - Venue management, facilities
Participants (aka Campers)
This list is for information only - make sure you also register at Eventwax so we can keep track of numbers!
BSL / English Interpreters
- Claire Haddon
- Jackie Joyce
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
Wifi
Projector, White Boards - I assume done because of the venue..
Photo - Mohsin
Wii's - Dom to bring his and look for possible temp. donations (Guy Dickinson - I'm happy to bring my Wii and controllers along - let me know) (Caius Durling - I'll be bringing my wiimote, lemme know if I've got to chuck the wii in as well)
Video - Under Discussion
Audio - Dom / OBH Team
Streaming or Stickam or Skype
Podcasting / Vidcasting - Dom
Non-tech
Lunch
Coffee/Tea/Snacks
Tables and chairs
T-Shirts
Mugs
Who's Blogging?
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag BarCampLeeds for content related to this event
Flickr
Blip.TV
del.icio.us
Technorati
Google Blog Search
LiveJournal Community for UK Barcamps
Aftermath
Dan Hardiker says:
What a great event, I loved every minute of it and look forward to the next! A big thank you goes to all the organisers and sponsors for creating such a productive and enjoyable environment. I hope to see all the attendees again at the next event, or before at GeekUp before then.
James Hoskins says:
I would like to add my thanks to Dan's. Imran, Tom, Dominic and all the other organizers put together a splendid event. I'm amazed that the ad-hoc conference format produced such interesting and diverse talks, my only regret is that I couldn't have listened to more. OK, my other regret is that I didn't get a sweepstake going on how long it would take for Rob to hack his brand new i-phone!
Paul Robinson says:
Great event, and thanks to all the organisers for a professional show. The talks were interesting, illuminating and the discussion great. I also think Old Broadcasting House is something we should clone in Manchester somehow. Incidentally, I also ended up by chance realising I needed to completely change my business model and take things in a whole new direction, so hopefully there will be a bigger payoff in the long run.
Rick Moynihan says:
An absolutely fantastic event! Many thanks to Imran, Tom and everyone I else who made it so much fun. Also, best of luck with the incubator at Broadcasting house, it looks like it'll be an awesome place to work! It's great to see successful events like this outside London, keep it up!
