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What is it?
What is BarCampOttawa? Think of it as a way to get the tech/geek community together in Ottawa. Only one thing is certain: It's up to you to decide. The most important thing you should take away from the event? Relationships with other geeks in Ottawa!
(As stolen from BarCampNYC, as copied from...) BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference 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. All attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.
Questions? Check out the google groups mailing list at: http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp/ or just post them in the "Questions" section at the bottom of this page.
When & Where
Saturday, April 22, 2006 9am to 5pm.
BitHeads 1309 Carling Ave ( http://www.bitheads.com/index.php )
Cost
Free as in beer. But there's a catch. Attendees are expected to contribute back to the conference by participating actively. "Active participation" might mean giving a presentation, helping with a presentation, blogging or podcasting the event, or whatever other creative ways
Proposed Sessions
Barcamp is about participation and discussion. What do you want to talk and learn about?
- How about one on dealing with changing requirements but still delivering on time?
- Could we see the Iotum demo that won the "Demo God" award this January?
- How about a Voice 2.0 presentation / panel discussion?
- How about beyond the cliche voice 2.0 to speculation on the future of personal/business communication as a decentralized federation of heterogeneous systems.
- serendipity or hysteria- context, presence, relevance, tigers, oh my!
- Blogging and Customer Relations
- Aspect Oriented Programming (Jason Furlong)
- CSS 3 & Ajax (Vlad M.)
- What do people really want?
- Add what you what to discuss - or better yet what do you want go to lead a discussion on!
Who's coming
Add yourself! Include your instant messaging or email info if you like. If you think you might want to help out, by all means add yourself to the organizers list and sign up for: http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp/
- RandyCharlesMorin - and I will be RVing.
- DavidCrow - roadtrip
- TobiasLuetke - jadedPixel, rubyonrails core dev
- DanielWeinand - jadedPixel
- RichLoen - InGenius
- BryceJohnson - I too would like to make the roadtrip Navantis / The Chicken Test
- CraigFitzpatrick - Devshop.com, Blog craig_fitzpatrick@rogers.com
- RossMacLeod - drossmacleod@gmail.com
- Mark Stephenson - Axionic
- Pat Cooney - Axionic
- Frederic Boulanger - Macadamian
- Scott Lake - jadedPixel, Technologica
- Mitch Brisebois - SensoryMetrics
- GavinMcKenzie - GavinMcKenzie.com
- Chris Justus - ServerSideGuy FastBugTrack Alcea
- Ben Houston - Neuralsoft / Exocortex Technologies
- Alain Désilets - NRC's Institute for information Technology: I would LOVE to attend, unfortunately I will be at CHI 2006 in Montreal.
- Ryan Lowe - Blog
- Eric Ramsden - TalkSwitch
- Don Kelly - Wandering Programmer
- Wendy Kennedy - Website Blog
- Brett Buckingham - brett.buckingham@naturalconvergence.com
- David Cuddy - Natural Convergence
- Michele Foster - Wizardev
- Jason Furlong - Furlong Consulting
- Jobe Roberts - SensoryMetrics
- Jason Murphy - GamingExcellence
- Martin Dufort - martin.dufort@gmail.com
- MattMacKenzie - Web/Blog
- Brian Mcbride - Talkswitch diepstn@gmail.com
- Robert Brown - Talkswitch rbrown@talkswitch.com
- Jean-François Davignon - InGenius jf@ingeniuspeople.com
- Jonathan Snook - Blog/Consultant
- David Peralty - Bloggy Network and Phoenixrealm dave.phoenix@gmail.com
- Cody Fauser - jadedPixel
Mike Beltzner - Mozilla: planning on talking about how to best do software design in OSS (sorry, have to back out)- Elizabeth Hostetter (Statcan) - Eager but cannot attend, serious health issue in family
- James Cogan - Dailypixel Network, PrimeMinister.ca
- JohnPhilipGreen - Nuvvo, Married Inc. --> Roadtrip from T.O.
- Malgosia Green - Nuvvo, Married Inc. --> Roadtrip from T.O.
- Matt Roberts - Wesley Clover
- Vlad M. - Kreativ Studios
- Nikolas Beaudin - böd
- Nikhil Adnani - groovechamber
- James Sosontovich - Railstation7
- Evan Prodromou - Wikitravel -> Wysiwyg, Wiki, MediaWiki, Semantic Wiki, microformats and Wiki, something like that
- Jen Nolan - mewren kekova
- Chris Nolan.ca - Eh List, Kweschun
- Add your name here!
Sponsors
The following companies are helping sponsor the event:
Gowlings - http://www.gowlings.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Ottawa) - http://www.pwc.com/ca/eng/main/home/index.html
RBC - Royal Bank of Canada - http://www.royalbank.com/
BitHeads - http://www.bitheads.com/index.php
Macadamian - http://www.macadamian.com
Devshop - http://www.devshop.com
Iotum - http://www.iotum.com
inMedia - http://www.inmedia.com
Kayvium Corporation - http://www.kayvium.com/
JadedPixel - http://www.jadedpixel.com
Wendy Kennedy - http://www.wendykennedy.com
InGenius - http://www.ingeniuspeople.com
Axionic - http://www.axionic.com
Organizers
News
Who's talking about us
Similiar Things
Questions
- Getting to Ottawa - anyone from TO interested in renting a car? Or are we riding RV style with Mr. Morin
- Will there be a WiFi connection available? - We believe so, still confirming...
- How long should the sessions/presentations be? Plan for 45 mins each.
We're still looking for sponsors for:
- morning coffee & snacks
- lunch for the group
- event t-shirts
