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on March 8, 2010 at 6:48:02 am

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Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Singapore Polytechnic

Update: As of Mon Mar 8, we have 189 registrants from Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Korea, Japan and Thailand. Looks like we'll have an awesome Barcamp in SG this time.

What is a Barcamp?

A barcamp is an informal gathering of people interested in startups, technology, education, media, travel and popular culture. We talk about the projects we are working on and try to learn from each other. If this is your first barcamp, please check out the visual guide to barcamps. We will have multiple rooms for you to run discussions and presentations. There are no pre-slotted speakers or topics. Come early in the day to post your topic on the topic wall. Depending on the popularity of the topic, we will assign a room and a time-slot for the speakers. Each session will run for 30 minutes. We will also run lighting talks - every presenter gets 5 minutes to do a mini-presentation.

Previous barcamps in Singapore were hosted by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

Joining us from outside Singapore? Check this page with information on flights, visas and guesthouses in Singapore. Some of us are able to host barcamp participants coming from abroad. We'll post details soon.

At BarcampSg4

From Barcamp Singapore 4 in 2009 at Infocomm Development Authority , Singapore.

Hashtags

The twitter hashtag for the event is #barcampsg5

The tinyurl for the event is http://bit.ly/barcampsg5

The registration form is at http://bit.ly/barcampsg5reg (or scroll down this page)

When and where

Date: Saturday March 27 2010

Venue: Singapore Polytechnic (next to Dover MRT - 20 minutes train ride from City Hall). We will post signs leading you to the venue from the MRT and Carparks.

Schedule

9 AM: Venue opens, those presenting will post their topics on the topic-board

9.30 AM: Introductions, barcamp how-tos

10AM to 1PM: Multiple sessions in multiple rooms

1PM to 2 PM: Lunch

3PM to 6PM: Multiple sessions in multiple rooms

7 PM: Barcamp afterparty at Hackerspace.sg.

Notes for those presenting or leading a discussion

Technically you have only 25 minutes, as we need 5 minutes for people to exit and enter. Keep your presentations short - say 10 or 15 minutes and spend more time on discussions, Q&A. Post your presentations on Slideshare.net with the tag barcampsg5. If you are running a longer session (or a hack session) book two simultaneous slots.

Notes for those attending sessions

We will probably have more than 250 people from Singapore and abroad joining us. So expect only standing room for popular presentations. In barcamps, we follow the "law of two feet". If the presentation of discussion in your room is not interesting for you, please feel free to move to another room.