Hey! Interested in robotics, electronic art, or new media? Like reading Make magazine? Ever wanted to make a 3D printer that makes copies of itself?
We're trying to start up a local chapter of Dorkbot here in Ottawa! Dorkbot is a group of "people doing strange things with electricity". Recent dorkbot artworks (in other cities) include my doki-doki, a transmitter and reciever that let you feel another person's heartbeat, along with a A Report on Pigeon Aerial Photography and Hektor the spray painting robot.
If you are interested, Dorkbot-toronto is happening this weekend, and the Dorkbot Montreal meeting should be on December 14th. Here in Ottawa we're starting a group, and we have a mailing list
-Sebastien Bailard (penguin @ supermeta.com), RepRap.org - self-reproducing 3D printer project, dorkbotottawa
What is it?
What is BarCampOttawa2? Think of it as a way to get the tech/geek community together in Ottawa, Ontario. 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!
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
BarCamp - Saturday, December 2, 2006 8:30am to 5pm.
~BitHeads 1309 Carling Ave ( http://www.bitheads.com/ )
PreCamp Get together - Friday, Dec 1, 2006 - 7:30pm upstairs PUB.101 - 101 York St.
Format
- We will be collecting food and monetary donations for The Ottawa Food Bank - Please be generous.
Scheduled Sessions
Barcamp is about participation and discussion. Below is a schedule if you'd like to present - to add yours (Click Edit Page & Log On). We'll have projectors, screens & white boards. Bring a laptop, memory stick or what ever you need to illustrate your points - PowerPoint, Demos', code snippets or what ever - to engage participants.
Sessions are 40 minutes, but with an active audience, probing insights and both you and the audience involved in Q&A a 15 or so minute presentation is all that needed to start the discussion.
| Time | Auditorium | Board Room - Commercialization Stream | Meeting Room | Kitchen - 2 20 minute sessions/block |
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee | Networking | Coffee | Networking |
| 9:00-9:30 | Intro & Session Sign-up | <- Intro in Auditorium | <- Intro in Auditorium | <- Intro in Auditorium |
| 9:30-10:15 | Mike Milinkovich - Eclipse Foundation | Founding Agreements | Mark Levison Scrum in a Nutshell and Scrum game | 1. Canada Council for the Arts - Proposal for a social tagging/multi-author blog 2. |
| 10:15-11:00 | Eric Pretlac - Integrating Skype and Asterisk. | Austin Hill - Chasing Billions with Zero Knowledge - Raising financing for your Startup. | Digital Word — Writing 4 the Web No.0 | 1.Snap - Online Communities for Entrepreneurship 2. |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee | Networking | Coffee | Networking |
| 11:15-12:00 | Kakiloc Location-Based Social Network | PWC Digital Media Credits IRAP Programs for Entrepreneurs | DriveTraffic Designing Search Engine Friendly Websites | |
| 12:00-12:45 | Mitch Brisebois - Great technology, terrible products. Lessons Learned. | Jennifer Meacher Small Business & Entrepreneurship Bharat Rudra Ontatio Centers of Excellence | | |
| 12:45-1:45 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:45-2:30 | Adobe Introduction to Flex & Rich Internet Application Development | Gowlings Technical, Partnership & Reseller Agreements | | Devshop intro & using metrics to build better dev schedules - Craig Fitzpatrick |
| 2:30-3:15 | | Francis Moran, inmedia Public Relations: Francis's Five Favourite PR Fictions: An irreverent guide to best practices for a tech start-up | | Mark Stephenson Glossy Buttons and other tasty Photoshop tricks |
| 3:15-3:30 | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| 3:30-4:15 | | Chris Lamont Know and grow using technology to increase sales, | | |
| 4:15-5:00 | Wrap-up | Wrap-up | Wrap-up | Wrap-up |
Proposed Sessions
What do you want to talk and learn about? There are 48 sessions to discuss trends, technologies, implementations and to demo what you're working on - shine a light on your interests - present.
- PIKA Technologies - Skype/Asterisk integration (mashup)(10 minute presentation + 30 minute Q&A) www.pikatech.com
- Agile Software development and Game - A 5 minute talk about Agile Software development and then run an instance of the Jean Tabaka's Scrum game (http://hubert.blogs.com/dahdidahdi_dadadihda/files/59_minute_simulation_v3.pdf)
- A roundtable discussion of Ruby on Rails and AJAX
- Adobe Flex - High level introduction to Flex rich internet application framework and Flex Builder IDE. [http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/]
- SensoryMetrics.com - GREAT technology, TERRIBLE products: 3 mini case studies & lessons learned in commercialization. (20 minutes)
- DriveTraffic - Designing Search Engine Friendly Websites [http://www.drivetraffic.ca]
- Digital Word — Writing 4 the Web No.0
- Photoshop workshop - I've slotted a 20 min spot on creating buttons and other popular 2.0 effects. If there is the demand is there for more on using Photoshop and Illustrator for web site design, icons and UI design please indicate that here and I can expand the scope.
- VIDEO.CA Demo/Preview - I can only attend the morning sessions, so if I am able to find a morning block open, I would be happy to provide a demo/preview of our Canadian Video Sharing Community - James Cogan / Dailypixel Network
- Social tagging and the Canada Council for the Arts - the Council wants to create a social networking site for its upcoming 50th anniversary that combines multi-author blog and social tagging/folksonomy approaches. We'll present the project and what we'd like to do, and hope we can provoke some discussion on requirements, available packages (open source or not), hosting services, and development.
Who's coming
Add yourself (Click Edit Page & Log on)! Include your instant messaging or email info.
- Geoff Longman (glongman at gmail.com)
- Martin Dufort - Kakiloc (martin.dufort @ kakiloc.com)
- Alain Lavoie - Kakiloc (alain.lavoie @ kakiloc.com)
- Raymond Lee (rexaler at gmail.com)
- Craig Fitzpatrick, (craig@devshop.com) www.devshop.com www.UncommonSenseForSoftware.com
- Zachary Houle, (zhoule@magma.ca) Ex-journalist, writer/editor guy www.linkedin.com/in/zacharyhoule
- Steve Lecomte, iotum & Ottawa Asterisk User Group (steve at iotum.com) www.iotum.com & www.astawa.com
- Dru Lavigne, (dru at isecom dot org)
- Jonathan Snook (www.snook.ca)
- Jason Hamilton, Acart Communications (jhamilton@acart.com)
- Pat Cooney, Axionic (pat @ axionic.com) www.axionic.com
- Clayton "Tex" Scott ( clayton dot scott @ gmail.com )
- Dan Langille (dan @ langille.org ) langille.org
- Russell McOrmond (russell at flora dot ca) FLORA.ca - technology policy wonk
- Ian Calder,Dollco (ianc@dollco.com)
- Lisa Wall, Spending Profile www.SpendingProfile.com
- Charbel Choueiri, ALBAtel Inc.www.albatel.ca
- Thomas Leroux, www.leroux.ca Email: wtleroux at gmail dot com (email for IM's)
- Steve Palmer, 76design (76design.com/shiftcontrol)
- Brett Tackaberry, 76design www.76design.com/shiftcontrol
- John Wiseman, 76design www.76design.com/shiftcontrol
- Holden Karau holden@pigscanfly.ca
FredNgo - BarCampMontreal organizer Sorry, can't come. :(- James Cogan (www.dailypixel.ca)
- David Peralty Digital Life News
- Russell Coltess, BIONIQ www.bioniq.ca
- Scott Annan (scott.annan@mercurygrove.com)
- David Clarke, www.pikatech.com
- Eric Pretlac, www.pikatech.com
- Wojtek Tryc, wojtek at VoIPMan.ORG and/or Wojtek at PIKA
- Jon Masters ( jcm@jonmasters.org )
- Doug Petty PIKA
- Mark Levison (mlevison at gmail) www.notesfromatooluser.com
- Don Kelly vagabond / programmer
- Andrew Clunis (orospakr@linux.ca)
- Shawn Hyam (shawnhyam @ gmail.com)
- John Duff (duff.john @ gmail.com)
- Matt Roberts Wesley Clover
- Natasha D'Souza (photo_mountains@yahoo.com)
- Jamie Neilson jneilson @jamesperly.com
- Mitch Brisebois (mbrisebois @ truecontext.com) www.sensorymetrics.com
- Stacy Tyler Young (styoung @ adobe.com) www.adobe.com
- Randy Kun, (rkun@ilevel.ca) www.ilevel.ca
- Roy Abou Assaly (royassaly@gmail.com)
- Joseph Potvin (GOSLING & IRCan)
- AustinHill - Executive Instigator Project Ojibwe - Blog Billions with Zero Knowledge
- Kristina Mausser, Digital Word (kristina at digitalword dot ca)
- Darlene Moore (darlene @ drivetraffic.ca) [http://www.drivetraffic.ca]
- Jobe Roberts http://www.sensorymetrics.com
- Sebastien Bailard RepRap - the project to make a 3D printer that can self-reproduce.
- Tim Moore (ergognome@rogers.com) ergosum ltd. human factors consultant
- Anthony Rumsey (arumsey @ adobe.com) www.adobe.com
- Jeff Bruton (bruton.jeff @ gmail.com)
- Jeff Parks (jeff.parks@iaconsultants.ca) Information Architecture Podcast
BryceJohnson Sorry people the weather is making me chicken ;-) I'm really sorry I can't make it. I'll try to put my notes for BarCamp Canada on the Wiki.- Nelson Ko, Citadel Rock Online Communities
- Jennifer Bruce http://www.nationalcapitalscan.ca
- Alison Evans Adnani (evansadnani @ gmail.com) (http://www.snap-ecommunity.ca)
- Michelle Gauthier (michelle.gauthier@greenley.ca/Greenley & Associates, A CAE company)
- Peter Bernier (peter.bernier at gmail.com)
- Lynnette McLaughlin (lynnette.m at gmail.com)
- Peter Lindstrom, LiquidCMS
- Gavin McKenzie, (gavin.mckenzie @ bellnet.ca)
- Sunir Shah
- Rich Loen, (richATingeniuspeopleDOTcom, http://www.ingeniuspeople.com)
- Shezi Aziz, (sheziATingeniuspeopleDOTcom, http://www.ingeniuspeople.com)
- Paolo Farago, Teknision (paolo @ teknision.com) www.teknision.com
- Tony MacDonell, Teknision www.teknision.com
- Francis Moran, inmedia Public Relations (fmoran at inmedia dot com) www.inmedia.com
- Nancy Romanovitch, Graphic Designer, infiniti design, www.infinitidesign.ca
- Phil Laliberte, plaliberte @ ramius.net
- Michael Hirsch (mchirsch at gmail dot com, http://www.shinkansen.ca )
- Henry Lewkowicz (henry @ contextdiscovery.com)
- Dwayne Kristjanson (dwayne.kristjanson @ gmail.com)
- Matt Moore RealAuction
- Phil Dame http://www.ramius.net
- Alfred Jay http://www.ramius.net
- Sylvano Carrasco (carrasco at caronadesigns.com)
- Kevin Driedger Extreme Designers (linuxbox (at) gmail)
- Jay West (creative at jaywest dot com)
- Jamie Oastler (jamie.oastler@gmail.com)
- Peter Krug (peterkrug at rogers.com)
- Jason Hollett (jason at jasonhollett.com)
- Jamie Fisher (jfisher@repositbox.com) www.repositbox.com
- Janet Wilkinson (jwilkinson@repositbox.com)www.repositbox.com
- MatthewBurpee (pending weather)
- Y Huang (ylh at cbnco dot com)
- Paul Moylan (http://www.ramius.net)
- Simon Chen (http://www.ramius.net)
- Nathan Medema [nathan.medema at canadacouncil.ca | http://www.canadacouncil.ca]
- Kim Lymburner [http://www.canadacouncil.ca]
- Ryan Abbott, Copywriter, reachryanabbott @ gmail.com
- Kareem Sultan, http://www.racedv.com
- Jason Staples, http://www.edigenous.com
- Wayne Larsen, nanoware.com
- Bryan Larsen, nanoware.com
- Ellen Grove, (ellen.grove@gmail.com)
- Bruce Raganold, PricewaterhouseCoopers http://www.pwc.com/tech
- Kent Smith, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Kyle Browness, http://www.istudio.ca
Organizers
- Mark Stephenson, Axionic (mark @ axionic.com) www.axionic.com
- Peter Childs
- Ryan Lowe (blog @ ryanlowe.ca), Ruby on Rails consultant/freelancer and blogger
- Ian Graham - ian.graham3 @ rogers.com
- Erik Hagborg (erik @ axionic.com) www.axionic.com
- Melany Gallant (mgallant @ ramius.net) www.ramius.net
- Sonny Juane (sjuane @ ramius.net) www.ramius.net
- Geoff Waddington - RealDecoy
- Karly Bennett
Volunteers
- Clayton "Tex" Scott ( clayton dot scott @ gmail.com )
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
Spread the Word
Help spread the word! here is a page of graphics that you can place on your site SpreadBarCampOttawa .
News
Who's talking about us
*Alec Saunders Log http://saunderslog.com/2006/10/02/ottawa-camp-schedule/
*Notes from a Tool User (Mark Levison's blog): http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2006/11/scrum_talk_and_.html and http://www.notesfromatooluser.com/2006/11/scrum_in_a_nuts.html#more
*DriveTraffic Blog http://www.drivetraffic.ca/blog/
*re-inventing the user eXperience http://sensorymetrics.com
*WordUp! Life in the Digital Hood http://www.digitalword.ca/wordup
*Tonic: The Axionic Blog http://tonic.axionic.com
*Dru Lavigne Blog http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd
Similiar Things
Questions
- Will there be a WiFi connection available? - Yes. Free WiFi. Bring your laptops.
- How long should the sessions/presentations be? Plan for 40 mins each (total). For those leading a session, plan on presenting for 15 minutes and then leading a discussion for the balance!
- What is the capacity (# people) for each of the four rooms? Some topics can be expected to have smaller attendance (though no guarantee of course)
- Is there a summary for those of us who missed it this time?
- Will there be a post-event dinner or something? Not currently planned, but I wouldn't mind a pint afterwards.
- I'm really hoping I can get a two flip charts in the meeting room and some markers. Thanks Mark Levison (email mlevison at gmail - if you would.)
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