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.
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Media Sharing and Tags
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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 Crichton 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. Waverley 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!
* Ewan McIntosh, working for the LTS Futures group to see what new technology can do for education and organisations. I work on the education advisory board of Channel 4 and do stuff for the BBC. And help organise BarCampScotland ;-)
* Florian Dargel, from GlobalFinance
* Fergus Burns, Nooked.com, RSS solutions for business
* Fraser Edwards, Affiliate marketing
* 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
* Ian Stuart - You're 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
* Samuel Halliday, co-founder ThinkTank Mathematics Ltd
* Alan Gilmour, Cycle-route.com
* Henry S. Thompson Introduction to XML Pipelines: W3C's forthcoming XProc specification, and Markup Technology's MT Pipeline prototype
* Hazel Hall, from the Social Informatics Group in the School of Computing at Napier University, Edinburgh
* Brian Davison, from the Social Informatics Group in the School of Computing at Napier University, Edinburgh
* Craig Murphy, Scottish Developers and UK Community Evangelist
* Sim Bamford, I have nothing to declare except my genius ;)
* Bea Brogi, Art Therapist trainee: studying at QMU a master in science and doing a placement at the Cowgate Centre (homeless drop in)
* Robert Jones - I'd like to talk about the ScotEduBlogs.org.uk project.
* Tim Read, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems - happy to talk about anything to do with Sun Clusters
* John Spray - I'm interested in making literature metadata usefully available to researchers, in the context of the open-source Referencer project.
*Morna Findlay - School of Informatics schools' liaison officer and e-learning student. I'd like to talk to others about how to interest more young teenagers in computing-related sciences, and in how we might use the web to do this for us.
*Daniel Winterstein MA.I academic turned entrepreneur. I'm interested in setting up an Alternate Reality Game based around Edinburgh, so talk to me about that. Also, I'm happy to talk about user-profiling based on statistical NLP (which is one of the things my company specialises in).
* Peter George, Net Resources Cisco Community Academy.
* Andy Hyde, freelance consultant
* Willem Muller, Lead developer for an internet startup company.
* Paul_MacDonald, ceo of customer alignment consultants Bipedal and publishers of themarketingleaders.com.
* Douglas Fraser
* Stephanie & Bryan Rieger, Yiibu
* Julia Stephenson
* Ric Glassey, PhD Student at Strathclyde Uni, teaching web app dev to MSc/UG students, and interested in developing collaborative web apps for academia.
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
Online learning – knowledge economy driver and world flattener or just parsley around the web2.0 plate?
