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BarCampScotland

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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. You can sign up to come along on this page.

 

To edit this page: password is c4mp

 

Event tags:

barcampscotland, upcomingevent143123

 

Media Sharing and Tags

Upload all photos to Flickr , all presentations to Slideshare, all videos to Youtube; use the tag BarCampScotland

 

Event details

 

* Saturday 3 March 2007, 2pm-6pm (flexible), APPLETON TOWER - Concourse, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

* Address: 4 Buccleuch Place. Corner of Buccleuch Place and Buccleuch Street. Near George Square, Central Campus, University of Edinburgh. Enter from Buccleuch Street. Map.

* Read more about the event at Up Coming

* Cost: free

* NEW, UPGRADED LOCATION: APPLETON TOWER - Concourse , School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Central Campus, George Square, 11 Crichton Street, EH8 9LE

* How to get there: Map; The Appleton Tower is located on George Square at the Central Campus of the University of Edinburgh. Look for a massive building under construction -- that is the NEW School of Informatics, otherwise known as the Forum. Appleton Tower sits right next to it on the Southside. Enter Appleton Tower from the Chrichton Street side. The Concourse (main Lobby) is on the 1st Floor.

* Please be forewarned that there is little parking in the area, so we highly recommend public transportation. Waverly Station in Edinburgh is just a 10 minute walk away, and many bus routes serve the area.

 

 

 

Hosts

Ewan McIntosh Fergus Burns Florian Dargel Fraser Edwards Michael Clouser David Richardson

 

 

 

Participants

You can sign up here and/or at Up Coming, if you're into that. Someone'll catch the duplication and make sure it all fits together!

 

* Bruce Scharlau Teaching Fellow, Computing Science Department at the University of Aberdeen, happy to talk on my subject areas of mobile and web applications, in particular Java and Ruby on Rails based ones.

* John Sutherland -- happy to talk/demo/tutor on Django (Python web-framework) or general standards based web-development (xhtml, css, javascript, ajax, json...).

* Graeme Mathieson of Rubaidh Ltd - happy to give a talk about some aspect of Ruby on Rails if there is demand.

* James Littlejohn Cofounder & CEO mepath.com

* David Noble

* Ian Stuart - Your giving the weans what?

* Sean Farrell - can talk about Second Life

* Kate Farrell - can talk about Second Life or 2020 technology projects (possibly to be known as "You're giving the weans what? - part 2"

* Brian Baglow - Interactive entertainment analyst (or Games geek if you prefer) and PR/Marketing bloke to boot

* Christopher Muenchhoff - Founder of Pagebull

* David Gilmour - can talk about East Lothian education's Exc-el and eduBuzz edublogging developments.

* Tess Watson, eduBuzz

* Mike Coulter, Digital Agency

* John Johnston

* John Connell, Cisco Systems - happy to listen and contribute where I feel I can.

* Mark Tennant, Computing Subject Support Coordinator, East Lothian Council - Computing in Schools, blogging, using a WIKI for revision.

* Blair Millen

* Graham Brown-Martin, Handheld Learning

* Henry Jacob from Arrk

* Johnnie Walker, Freelance Web Developer

* Stewart Oliver, entrepreneur / Scottish Enterprise

* Dan Champion, smallholder, local government web manager and founder of soon-to-be-launched book site Revish

* Andrew Middleton, educational podcasting, digital game-based learning and creativity in learning in HE.

* Ewan Spence, can talk about Podcasting, Mobile Technology, Marketing, Second Life,* Jamie Clague - Terinea

* Duncan Smeed Lecturer (Web Applications Engineering) in Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, lapsed blogger and now making Web 0.2 to Web 2.0 transition ;-)

* Paul Wilson

* Donnacha of Accelerys

* Mark Brown

* Stuart Barlow

* Alan Francis

* Chris Clarkson from Holiday Watchdog

* Anthony Bailey, developer at Amazon.

* Terence Haddock

* Tony Farndon Demo Flock and/or my extensions, unless you are all familiar with it :-)

* Ed Oskiewicz eduqate open source IT and training services, here to listen to others but can talk about what I do

* David Reitter runs a free and open source project, forking Emacs and annoying Stallman and die-hard Emacs geeks, but serving >10,000 enthusiastic Mac users. Interested in business models for such projects!

*Jake Broadhurst, works facilitating the development of a portfolio of online distance learning postgraduate courses across the University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

*Amanda Burgauer, founder of Sharedbase, online community, communication and project management circles, social networks

*Colin Miller, from Distance Learning at The University of Edinburgh, School of Law involved in student recruitment, marketing and general co-ordination of distance learning projects.

* David Richardson, from the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

* Michael Clouser from the Edinburgh Stanford Link on the Edinburgh Stanford Link and/or his Ph.D. work on University-Government-Industry interaction in fostering innovation through social interaction.

* Joe Halliwell co-founder and CSO of Edinburgh Robotics

* Alan Gilmour

* Henry S. Thompson Introduction to XML Pipelines: W3C's forthcoming XProc specification, and Markup Technology's MT Pipeline prototype

* Hazel Hall and Brian Davison, from the Social Informatics Group in the School of Computing at Napier University, Edinburgh

 

Sponsors

 

Please help make this come together. Add your sponsorship or offering below.

 

Many thanks to

 

 

for their generous support and especially for providing the space, wifi, chair rental, and food and beverage at the end of the event!

 

Moreover, BarCampScotland is also supported by

 

 

 

Task List

 

* Find a Sponsor for grub ;-) There will be a cafeteria, but any more support is more than welcome

* Is somebody interested in sponsoring T-Shirts?

* Email your friends who work in Coding, Programming, Ads, Marketing, Internet and Business, Public Service innovation...

 

Who's talking about us?

 

 

 

Discussion suggestions

 

McMashups - bring along your latest mashups, demos etc.

 

Building a web2.0 startup from Scotland & Silicon Valley, James Littlejohn

 

The latest funding trends on Sandhill Road, James Littlejohn

 

Is there any interest in having a live session with BarCamp Madison (in the US)? Our event is the same day. If so please contact me KenRheingans@hotmail.com