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.
Event details
Why?
The Internet is currently going through an exciting time. Web 2.0, OpenID, Social Networking etc.. The UK is at the forefront of a lot of this innovation. The North of England is full of enterprising and innovative individuals / businesses but we have to travel to London to talk to kindred spirits. Not any more!
We want BarCampSheffield to showcase the best that the UK has to offer. We want to share knowledge, experience and techniques. If you have a great idea, have developed a great Web App / Mashup or are simply interested in finding out what everyone else in the market is doing then come along. Everyone is Welcome!
To make things interesting we have secured a £1000 award for the best / most innovative web application / mashup by a UK developer(s). All you have to do is come to Sheffield and demonstrate it. Our sponsors are also keen to help you get your application / mashup out into the public.
So, if you want to help share your knowledge or simply talk to people with like minded interests - then come on and join us.
Volunteers to help arrange / promote the event are urgently required.
When
26th / 27th May 2007
[what time will it start/end?]
Where
PlusNet,
Internet House
Sheffield
S1 4BY
Maps
Google Maps
Where to stay?
Have got sponsorship which pays for 30 single hotel rooms (first come first served basis) in Sheffield City for the Saturday night. Drop an email to 'barcamp AT plus.net' and they will arrange. First come, first served. (24 rooms left)
Confirmed Sponsors
Possible Sponsors (shortlist to target!)
- BT
- Octane
- Tiscali
- Sheffield Wednesday (they're utterly out of cash, so unless anyone has an "in"...)
- The University of Sheffield
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Ellacoya
- Cisco
- Zend
- Xen
- Telindus
- Nortel
- Alcatel
- Chinwag
Proposed Schedule
Day 1
- Peril's of open Passwords - with Jason Hard of Cryptocard / Whitehat
- What Is an SSL/VPN and is it really secure? - with Jason Hard of Cryptocard / Whitehat
- How to build an enterprise level (>300k users) Web 2.0 App (all the gory details) - Dean Sadler of PlusNet
- Keith Sterling. Present the use of Agile within AOL UK, specifically around the creation of a team to build AOL's LLU Broadband Provisioning Platform from nothing to go live in 6 months. BarCamp
- SEO - The bootstrappers way - Kevin Revill of British Information
- Keeping it simple - the key to successful, modern web interface - Wojtek Kutyla of PlusNet
- Building stuff with yahoo pipes (not sure what yet) --Tamlyn
Suggested talk topics
- OpenID - what is it and what is it good for?
- OpenID and CryptoCard's 2 Auth Solution- is this a "Killer App"
- Knowing your Users - How much is too much?
- Building Community - by being open & honest
- SEO & SEM campaigns - The cheap and Easy Way!
- How to scale out Large MySQL implementations
- Net Neutrality vs Traffic Management
- The UK Broadband Market - Where's it going?
- Scaling small-business culture without the red-tape
Any other ideas?
Anyone got anything interesting to say about Ruby on Rails - let us know!! Would love to have a demo / presentation on the subject.
- Peter Cooper: Been using it since 2004 and have several deployed apps, will try to come up with a few ideas.. anything Ruby is up my street! :)
- hey peter, even just a run through of how rails works would be cool. i gave it a go a while back and was pretty amazed by activerecord, scaffold etc. Ruby itself is interesting too. --Tamlyn
Evening Pub Crawl
- Have FREE Beer available. Anyone got any preference :-) eg. Bud, Guinness, Boddingtons, Newcastle Brown? Will get a couple of crates of each depending on demand. Let me know here ;-)
Newcastle Brown -- Caius
Magners or Bulmers please (seconded - cider forever!)
Some kind of lager please.
Local Sheffield ales: Pale Rider or Moonshine?
Day2
- Small Start-ups Platform - Propose your new business
- Web Application Demonstrations
- Web Application £1000 Award
Topics I would like to hear about
Mobile and Web-based Social Networking
Scaling Web Applications
Agile Software Development
New Technology and its uses
Anything to do with the Web!
Competitions
Best presentation of the weekend - Win a Slingbox
Best new UK Web Application / Mashup demo - Win a cheque for £1000 AND FREE publicity for you / your app
Awards will be judged by the Attendees.
Planners
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
1. Matt Grest
2. Alex Zhang from Travel Manager
3. Kevin Revill from British Information
4. Alistair MacDonald
5. Jon Davies
6. Tony Crockford
7. Mary-Ann Horley
8. Matthew Rowe
9. Gareth Rushgrove
10. Tom Scott
11. Dan W (probably)
12. Ashley Etchell
13. Kev Atkinson
14. Dave Verwer (would be interested in one of those hotel rooms if possible)
15. James Boardwell
16. Joel Rowbottom from Fotopic.net
17. Tamlyn Rhodes (would also be interested in a hotel room)
18. Andrew Disley (would also be interested in a hotel room)
19. Luke Morgan
20. Steve Frost
21. Keith Sterling
22. Andy Mitchell
23. George Palmer
24. Adam Bardsley (would be interested in hotel room)
25. Ian Green(would also be interested in a hotel room)
26. Caius Durling (would also be interested in a hotel room)
27. Shaun Hare
28. Stuart Grimshaw
29. Dawid Lorenz
30. Marek Matulka
31. Wojtek Kutyla
32. Arek Kurylowicz
33. Amit Kothari
34. Mitch Bryson
35. Gang Lu
36. Peter Cooper (would also be interested in a hotel room)
37. Steve Ireland
38. Robert Raszczynski
39. Oscar Boscaro: Benvenuti nel Giornale Tecnologico WIRELESS: http://www.pdoscarweb.it/
Apologies
The future / Ideas?
Can we have a mailing list facility so we can register and hear about how the event went, the date of the next one, etc.?
After the event can we make this a regular thing in the North - maybe do other events in Leeds, York, Hull - maybe Bradford? I have contacts with potential sponsors etc. Let me know your thoughts at Ian Greenor ian(at)greencomms(dot)com. Everything in the social media scene is very London-centric and it would be good to pool all the Northern talent.
BarCampSheffield will be an annual event if it proves popular and people want this type of thing on a regular basis. If people need assistance creating other events in the North - I will be more than happy to help. Dean
Web Apps / Mashup Competition Entrants
(please add your name if you would like to enter the Web Apps / Mashups competition and WIN the £1000 prize. UPDATE: We have also managed to secure some PR activity for those people entering the competition. So not only do you get the chance to win a grand you could also get ££££'s worth of exposure for you and your app :-) So what are you waiting for? Participants for the £1000 prize must announce their intentions to demo prior to the start of barcamp - so right now there is a 50% chance of the 2 entrants winning the £1000 :-) )
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
Wifi/Wired access points
Projector, White Boards
Technology Demonstration Room (PS3 / XBox & Vista / Photo Frames / Slingbox etc..)
Non-tech
Breakfast
Lunch
Coffee/Tea
Tables and chairs
Meeting Rooms
Who's blogging?
Flickr
Blip.TV
Technorati
Google Blog Search
