Event details
- Date: Saturday 1st March 2008
- Cost: Nothing. Nada. FREE! Even better, we'll feed and hydrate you whilst you're there.
- Venue: The MEN Media Headquarters on Deansgate Manchester - home to the Manchester Evening News.
We're grateful to MEN Media for letting us have use of their offices on a Saturday. It's a great space with dedicated auditorium for 40, large open spaces for larger groups, and several small meeting rooms. We have dedicated use of the building all day, but it's an office and we're guests - so please respect the surroundings.
Please note, spaces are limited, so if you don't book a free ticket, you might not be allowed into the event. Sorry!
What is it? Themes?
Over the last couple of years, Manchester has seen a thriving technical community sprout up. We've seen BSD and Linux groups grow, GeekUp thrive across the North, Ruby and Microsoft developer communities develop and the local technical economy mature. While in recent times, we have also seen the Manchester Free Software group form and grow. Whilst some of those communities have talks, it's time we all got together and talked about things that interested us in a BarCamp style.
You turn up with a talk, you fight for a place on the board, and then you get on with it. We'll supply a venue, projector equipment, food and drink for the whole day, and a room full of like-minded people.
We're still working out the exact format, so don't plan too much for your talk just yet - we'll have timings sorted out soon. Promise.
Things we have
- A venue
- Projectors (we think)
- Sponsorship for food & drink
- Some free schwag for everybody
- A desire to make it a great success
What we need
- Possibly projectors/PA kit
- Somebody to help co-ordinate the food/drink
- Helpers on the day
- You to turn up
- Other stuff I haven't thought about
- How about a nice logo with the BarCampLogo and something Manchester related overlayed into the flame?
Add your name here if you want to help
- Paul Robinson
- Andrew Disley (added by PR :-P)
- Various other members of NWDC (also added by PR)
- Simon Wheatley
- Richard Smedley, M6-IT C.I.C.
- Sam Clark, (former GeekUp'er before heading south)
- Michael Sparks, BBC Research
- Imran Ali, Carbon Imagineering
- Dan Hardiker, Adaptavist.com Ltd
- Guy Fraser, Adaptavist.com Ltd
- Dominic Hodgson
- Stewart Townsend (Expert Caterer)
- Michael Josephson
- Steve Ireland
- Francis Fish
- Tom Kerswill (PA system)
- Ian Carroll, MEN Media
- Tim Panton, Georgia Brown - Westhawk/PhoneFromHere.com
- Ian Moss - Im sure I can help in someway.
Logo suggestions
The attendance list is now GONE from this page
Thank you for putting your name down to help us with numbers - it really helped us get an idea of the size of venue we need.
You now MUST reserve your place at the official signup page:
http://barcamp-manchester.eventwax.com/march-1st-manchester-barcamp
After receiving confirmation of your place you may leave your name here with a link to your work so people can see what kind of crowd is in attendance:
Reserve List?
Can I be the first person to add my name to the reserve list, as all tickets are now gone! (I have contacted Paul but had no luck with a reply).
Ideas for talks
If you know what you're talking about already, let us know by adding your name and a description below
- Paul Robinson - "Ideas are nothing. Execution is everything."
- Manoj Ranaweera - "Showcasing Northern Digital StartUps"
- Manoj Ranaweera - "Knowledge Exchange vs. Corporate Marketing Communications"
- John McKerrell - Probably something map related
- Peter Cooper - Programming Adventures: How Any Computer Science Concept Can Be Demonstrated In Dungeons
- Sam Clark - "So, you've become a freelance web developer! Now what?" - a quick guide to starting out on your own
- Katie Lips - Sexy SMS: Inbox Voyeurism
- Katie Lips - Pimp your project: Social Media Strategies for Arts and Cultural organisations
- Michael James - Something JavaScript, probably YUI or jQuery related, maybe both ?
- Guy Fraser - Gung-Ho Startups (mostly the same as Leeds talk, but will update it)
- Tim Hastings - "Functional Thinking"
- Patrick H. Lauke - A quick and dirty practical guide on making Google Maps more accessible to keyboard users (plus some more thoughts on "accessibility isn't just about blind people")
- Michael Sparks - Concurrency (made easy) for fun & games & other cool stuff too.
- Michael Sparks - Kamaelia Grey - a greylisting tool that will enable you to take your email inbox back :-)
- Paul Farnell - "How to get more visitors (and sales!) to your site"
What you'd like to hear about from others...
- Succesful tech businesses in the North-west from a business point of view.
- Usage of Amazon EC2 and other scaleable hosting solutions.
Where is it ?
MEN Media HQ
1 Scott Place, Hardman Street
Manchester, England M3 3RN
United Kingdom
Train Stations:
- Directions from Victoria
- Directions from Deansgate
- Directions from Picadilly
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- Please use the tag BarCampManchesterUk content related to this event
- For the Upcoming Photo Feed tag Flickr photos upcoming:event=413111
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