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
- Head on over to register here...
When
- 16th + 17th August 2008
- Doors open at 9:30am each day, with the event beginning at 10:00am
Where
--Car Share
- Anyone people travelling into Leeds willing to bring along a few passengers?
Hotels & Accomodation
- There's an Etap hotel near the river for £35/night.
- We'll try get 5-10 rooms paid for given a suitable sponsor (first come, first serve!)
Who's talking about BarCamp Leeds2008?
Sponsors (confirmed)
Schedule
Each session will be 30 minutes with a ten minute break in between. We expect four session rooms, so we can accomodate 36 sessions throughout Saturday and 18 on Sunday.
| Time | Main Room | Boardroom | Classroom | Training 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 | | | |
What To Bring
- Laptops
- All the chargers/cables you'll need
- Cameras - still or video
- An idea for a session/presentation/talk
- Presents for the organisers ;)
What We'll Provide
- A venue!
- Wifi (and a few wired connections)
- Food & Drink (and maybe some schwag...)
- Projectors, screens, whiteboards, PA systems and such for presenters
- A video diary room!
"NOTE: if anyone presenting needs anything specific from the network please can you let us know by contacting any of the organisers ASAP so we can ensure the right ports are opened. The default setup is a little limited but with notice we'll be abe to accommodate your needs."
Accessibility
- Old Broadcasting House is newly refitted and entirely wheelchair accessible.
- We'll aim to get some talks simultaneously translated into British Sign Language (fingers crossed!).
Proposed/Desired Sessions
- Add proposed topics here. The schedule is decided on the day, by the people there, so this is by no means final! Also feel free to leave ideas for topics you'd like to see.
- Your proposed session - You!
* 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
Participants (aka Campers)
This list is for information only - make sure you also register at Eventwax so we can keep track of numbers!
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
Someone to photograph and someone to podcast/video cast the day's sessions.
Some Nintendo Wiis for gaming fun later in the evening.
Non-tech
Lunch
Coffee/Tea/Snacks
T-Shirts / Mugs / USB srives
Some prizes to give away...
Who's Blogging?
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag BarCampLeeds08 for content related to this event
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Aftermath
Imran Ali says:
We haven't had a 'beforemath' yet!
