BarCamp 2008 Schedule Online
The date is Friday, September 26 - Saturday, September 27, 2008.
This is around the same time as the Canada National Digital Media Day on September 25th and the ExpressionEngine Roadshow on Sept. 26.
The mostly empty (at the current time) session grid can be found at BarCampVancouver2008Schedule. After the Scheduling Jam, we can start filling in the schedule.
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 are encouraged to give a demo, a session, a presentation, or help with one. All attendees are expected to be participants. All presentations 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.
See also: BarCampVancouver, DemoCampVancouver, FacebookCampVancouver, MobileCampVancouver
Sponsors
Interested in sponsoring BarCamp 2008? Visit the sponsor page. This year's sponsors include:
IRC
irc.freenode.net Channel #barcampvancouver | Web Chat
FLICKR
http://www.flickr.com/groups/barcampvancouver/
Register / Attendees
Visit BarCamp Vancouver Registry and Attendees Page to register and see who is coming.
Venue
Taking Over Granville Island:
1. The Playwright's Theatre - Location for WordCamp and PhotoCamp Google Map
2. Arts Club Revue Stage - Registration and The Schedule Grid Google Map
3. Intersections Digital Studio (IDS) at Emily Carr, 1399 Johnston Street entrance, 2nd Floor Google Map
Planning
See BarcampVancouver2008Planning for details as we confirm them.
Topics
Fill 'em in
- PhotoCamp - Kris Krug (http://staticphotography.com)
- MiniMobileCamp - all things Mobile (iPhone, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, iPod Touch, Bug Labs Bug, Nokia phones like the N95, Mobile Internet Devices, Internet Tables like the Nokia N810, etc) - a mini version of the 2nd MobileCampVancouver which will happen
after before BarCampVancouver - Semantic Web and Microformats
- Open Web, Web Standards, Web Innovation
- GameCamp2008 - all things Gaming (web, PC, console, indie, mobile, casual, business case, etc) - Dustin Sacks
- Marketers for a Cause - Jordan Behan - A simple but fun idea; we all get together, select a charity, and work together to launch a social media campaign for them. Everyone will have a role, and we'll launch within the allotted time of the session. Sign up now at that link over thar.
- Podcasting Basics - The After the Credits Crew: Dale McGladdery, Colleen Vince, Marina Antunes - Just enough information to record and publish your own podcast. This show-by-doing workshop will simultaneously tempt the God of Demos and Murphy.
- How to Be a Laptop Bedouin or 'Hobo 2.0' - Julie and Darren are going to start a conversation about living where your work isn't, and what tools and techniques you need to live in Africa and work in Yaletown.
- WordCamp @ BarCamp with Duane Storey and Rebecca Bollwitt
- VHS: A Collaborative Approach to Hardware Hacking - An introduction to http://www.hackerspaces.org with an introduction to VHS - Joe Bowser
- Multilingual: the extra issues that arise when we do all that cool blogging, web development, filmmaking, Drupal and Joomla and Wordpressing that we do, but in two or more languages. Jim DeLaHunt.
- Research and Principles Behind Plain Language Guidelines - Cheryl Stephens - how to work with the plain language "rules".
- Ethics and Web 2.0 Raul Pacheco An open discussion on the ethics of blogging, commenting, sourcing, fact-checking, privacy concerns.
In the spirit of BarCamp, topics will be officially decided by the participants on the day of the event. But that being said, please drop a line before if you have a topic you think you other people would be interested in, or if there's something you're dying to learn.
- Feel free to leave something here!
Organizers
You? Let's start by signing up to the organizer's mailing list: http://groups.google.ca/group/barcampvancouver/
