BarCamp Toronto Tech Week
The fourth TorCamp un-conference
Background
Toronto Technology Week (techweek.to) is an initiative of ICT Toronto to host a week long series of events to celebrate technology in the Toronto region. Toronto is the largest high-tech hub in Canada and the third largest in North America. This week is packed with events including mesh conference, an Enterprise 2.0 Conference, InteractionCamp and Canadian New Media Awards. As citizens of this community, we should (and will) hold another BarCamp.
BarCampCalgary is happening the same day. Hello to our friends out west.
Event Info
| Date | May 26, 2007 |
| Time | 9:30 am - see schedule below |
| Location | U of T - Bissel Building 140 St. George Street |
| Capacity | 120 |
Organizers
Updates
UPDATE: 05/22/07: NOTE NEW TIME Start time corrected to 9:30am
UPDATE: 05/15/07: Sign-up list now available
Registration
If you're planning to attend please add your name to the list below:
- Ryan Coleman Clay Tablet Technologies
- Will Pate
- DeborahHartmann and I might talk about an "organizational culture retrospective" I do with clients if anyone is interested.
- MartinCleaver - I run a wikiconsulting firm so I'll discuss the typical steps from strategy articulation through technical deployment and engaging the community
- TaylanPince - I might be able to do an open discussion about open source CMS tools vs. frameworks
- KristanKrispyUccello - If there is interest, I would love to do an open discussion on strategies and implementations of aggregation of unstructured / semi-structured data across the internet
- Jonathan Lin - jhslin@gmail.com
- Colin McGregor - www.mcgregor.org - I might talk about writing feature articles for technical publications (I've appeared in Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Tux Magazine, etc...), if there is interest.
- Mark Kuznicki - Browser or Platform: What should Mozilla become? A conversation on the Messina Mozifesto.
- Clifford Ilkay - Dinamis I can talk about some of the social and technical challenges I faced in building a portal that targets a worldwide developer community. That portal, OmnisCentral, went up in May 2006 and has around 900 members now. It provides mailing lists in five languages, English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, a group blog, and a place to manage to the worldwide developer conferences.
- Kieran Huggins - "people as a service" / how we can make our communication/subscription platforms transparent.
- Beverly Crandon - (ad-ition/women2.0 Canada)
- JayGoldman - Radiant Core - I've got something in the morning but will come by after. I think I'll just participate in other people's sessions this time around, which would be a pleasant change :)
- BryceJohnson - I'll be running around. Draining the lifeblood of the OS community :-)
- RohanJayasekera
- Ben Vinegar FreshBooks
- RobHyndman - I'm going to just walk around poking a stick at Jay. Or I might instead do a legal Q&A.
- Paul Dowman
- Libin Pan
- Lee Dale | Smack Inc.
- Ryan McKegney - RedFlagDeals.com
- Derek Szeto - RedFlagDeals.com
- Tania Samsonova
- Ana Gervasio - bridgecollective.com/women2.0
- Rob Walker
- Rob Gillan
- Ian Garmaise
- Jon Green
- FredNgo
- AustinHill
- Jun Yan
- Anita Marchildon
- Sayem A.
- Estelle Havva
- Ilya Grigorik - 'Taming the RSS Beast' - Presentation on current approaches to solving RSS overload, their pitfalls, and a discussion on future directions.
- Kevin Thomason
- Greg Thomson - Demofuse.com
- Sandy Kemsley
- Gabriel Mansour
- Jay Godsall
- Matt O'Leary
- Aline Hobingingo
- Jenny Struyk
- Mark Cidade
- Matthew Burpee
- Nelson Ko
Event Schedule and Links to Session Notes
Saturday May 26
- "New BarCamper Orientation" - where anyone who hasn't been before can wade in and ask all the questions they want to calm any fears about looking foolish (hard to do - it's a friendly bunch), not knowing what's going on or understanding what is expected of you as a participant.
- Saturday Sessions will be blocked out in 1 hour chunks to start (may be adjusted based on # of sessions proposed)
- Sessions do not need to be an hour. Suggest 15-30 minute presentation with balance of time for discussion
- The plan is to start with 3 streams. The venue has 3 spaces that we can use. The Big space will hold 100+ people, Medium holds 40 and Small holds 25 - so we can have a great mix of session/discussion types.
- Suggestion: a group of 100 might easily generate 8 small breakout groups at a time. Get 8 helium baloons (marked A, B, C...) and tie each on a long string (so it floats over you head) to something heavy in a plastic bag (book, dinner plate). Now you have a portable marker for discussions. People see the talk is happening in space B and look for the baloon. Provide 8 flipcharts/whiteboards and you're done! DeborahHartmann
- BarCamp is not DemoCamp - if you'd like to share your product with the community please find a method other than a straight-up demo. Maybe there is a technical issue you want to work through or a business model approach etc. that you could discuss with other people who may be facing the same issues.
Session Ideas & Notes
Please post your session ideas below. Please Include:
- Descriptive Title
- Your Name(s)
- Type (Presentation, Panel, Round Table, etc.)
- Sentence or two about what you'd like to present
- What help you need (people, equipment, panelists)
- If you need help, how to contact you
Technical Writing for Geeks:
- Presented by Colin McGregor
- Presentation followed by Q & A
- How do you get into the not-so-well paying field of writing for big name Linux publications like Linux Journal, Linux Format, and others. Presenter will draw on his own experience and explain how to get in to the field.
- If the room and audience is large a PA system might be nice, otherwise nothing will be required.
(As stolen from BarCampNYC and BarCampLosAngeles, as copied from BarCampSanDiego) 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.
This event is part of the TorCamp phenomenon, started in November 2005. It's grown from about 50 at TorCamp 1 to over 140 at the last TorCamp DemoCamp.
All attendees must lead a presentation/session or help with one. All sessions 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 attendees and those who can’t be present.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS!
When you come, be prepared to share with BarCampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.
You can learn more about BarCamp here:
Sponsors
The following organizations and individuals have generously supported this event:
If you're interested in sponsoring this event please contact Ryan Coleman - rcoleman (at) clay-tablet (.) com or Will Pate will (at) willpate (.) org
Interested in helping out?
If you're interested in helping out please add your name/info below where appropriate. Please also drop an email to Ryan Coleman - rcoleman (at) clay-tablet (.) com.
Your time
If you're interested in helping out please add your name below:
i.e.: 1. Your name, your (at) email (.) here, what you can do/are interested in doing
- Your name here
- Jun Yan & Anita Marchildon: we can help with the set-up or other coordination duties to help contribute to this event. Worse comes to worse I can make/bring chocolate chip cookies!
- Want a contribution for breakfast? People seemed to like the bagels and creamcheese at TorCamp1... shall I bring 3 dozen? DeborahHartmann
Equipment
We are also looking for stuff:
(Add your name after an open number if you can provide/loan that item)
- BryceJohnson - can bring a projector
Nothing else (yet)
Other Resources
Have something you can donate? Want to chip in for food/drinks! Great! Let us know.
OLD UPDATES
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