(Taken from other BarCamp pages) 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 should give a demo, a session, or help with one. All presentions are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall. Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can’t be present.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
You can learn more about BarCamp here: http://barcamp.org/TheRulesOfBarCamp
Why
To learn, meet people who share different interests, contribute, and push yourself and your thinking.
20th January 2007, 4PM onwards
(Pizzas provided courtesy Meow)
Where
NTUC Center
One Marina Boulevard
Singapore
Event Schedule
- HalfBaked.com session when we need a break from the presentations: HalfBaked.com is a fun improv game in which the audience shouts out random words after which the group is split into small teams that pick 2 words each to christen a brand new company. The teams then have to come up with business models, marketing plans, logos, taglines etc for their companies. They do this in 10 minutes. Each team then pitches to the audience for 5 minutes; the audience grills them and decides who wins!
This is inspired by the HalfBaked.com session that Amit Gupta conducted at Barcamp NYC. His post on this is here: http://amitgupta.com/blog/shoebox/2006/10/03/halfbakedcom-entrepreneurial-improv/
I want to help
Send an email and subscribe to the Google group (below)...
There is also a Facebook group (Barcamp Singapore) for those users of Facebook.
http://nus.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2214504544
Singapore Campers
Add yourself... Please be sure to include what you're presenting and where you're from!
Topics I'd like to hear about...
- Ruby on Rails
- Mac OS X programming with objective-c and Cocoa
- Bioinformatics
- Smalltalk
- Demo: How to run a .NET app (including websites) successfully on Linux with Mono
- How to transfer a website designed in HTML into PHP coding / CMS systems easily!
- How to create DOTA mod from War Craft III.
- How to make your website the top of search engine results for certain keywords.
- Web Standards
- What are MICROFORMATS?
- How does Ruby on Rails compare to J2EE, Django, ASP.NET
- NITRO! Woah another Ruby based web-application framework! http://www.nitroproject.org/
- AJAX implementation on websites
Confirmed Slots
Track 1 (Techy)
4-445pm: Ruby on MRT (Choonkeat/Herry)
445-530pm: Monitoring using Nagios (Shyam )
530-615: Django: indenting jazz for the web (Harish)
615-7pm: AJAX implementation on Petrolwatch.com.sg using Scriptaculous & Cake PHP
Track 2 (Biz-y)
4-445pm: Why Techies & Marketers Will Never Understand Each Other's Websites! (Rachit)
445-530pm: Pinko Marketing (Chandra)
530-615:
615-7pm: Slacker Guide to running a Marathon (Lu Feng/Meow)
Past Records. :) Please move your topic above! Remember, 2 people can co-present on same topic
Participants and Presenters
- Harish Mallipeddi (NUS) - (Python/Django framework?) - http://poundbang.in/ - India/Singapore
- Justin Lee - i'm still thinking of what to contribute.
- Ming Yeow - Enterprise 2.0 - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/ perhaps (would this be of interest to you guys?)
- Chandrashekar - Pinko marketing - http://chandrashekar.beingalpha.com/
- Arpit Rai - Enterprise Software, IT Services (?)
- Jia - Cocoa and QT on MacOS X (beginner's experience)
- Ahmed - show me the way of the geek!
- Rachit - Internet Copywriting - Why Writing For The Net Is Different Than Anything Else! - http://www.rachitdayal.com
- Lucian - (I can't stay for the whole camp, but could drop in to share on web standards)
- Su Min - Future of communications (?)
- Michael Cheng - AJAX implementation on Petrolwatch.com.sg using Scriptaculous & Cake PHP
People interested (but not sure what to share)
- Gaurav Vaidya - (I *could* talk a bit about bioinformatics; who added it to the 'topics I'd like to hear about' list? What would you like to hear about specifically?)
- choonkeat - http://www.rssfwd.com/
- Deepak Jois - http://deepak.jois.name
- Divya Manian - http://nimbupani.com - possibly Drupal, SEO, web standards.
- Adrian Lee - http://www.adrianlee.info/
- Bjorn Lee - http://bjornlee.wordpress.com
- Kelvin Quee - http://kquee.com (Topics here are predominantly geekish, how 'bout less geekish ones? List *your* demands!)
- Lu Feng (I´m still thinking abt what I want to present and whether I have the time to do the slides. Topics, I´m thinking of Opera Widgets, Syllable, ReactOS, Linux == bloat?) (Update: Chandra juz started to brainwash me into doing a prezzie on Completing a marathon. Should I do it?)
- Donald Lim (I'm totally new here and really interested in knowing about this whole thing, hopefully I can contribute an idea or two)
- Ridzuan Ashim - http://www.xsmatter.com
- Nikhil Hegde N
uh... yes should ;)
- Ashwin - I am interested in Cocoa and QT Development on OS X and Marathon running. http://bl.eep.in
Sponsors ??
- linuxNUS - NUS Linux Users Group - http://linuxnus.org/
- The Digital Movement
- NTUC: refreshments (tentative)
Contribute
Join the Google group: barcampsg@googlegroups.com
EVENT SUGGESTIONS...
- food?
- t-shirts? (Harish: Can we order Barcamp t-shirts in bulk if people are interested? I would like one!)
- Talking to Bryan from www.e-ventz.com.sg about t-shirts
- location + equipment + network ???
After party
- At China One. Put your name down here if you are interested!
- Chandrashekar
- Deep
