On Wed, 14 May 2008, follower wrote: > After some discussion of BarCamp scheduling ideas at TVIC this evening > I thought this had some points worth considering: > > <http://tantek.pbwiki.com/FooCampBarCampDifferences> Hmm. I felt at the last Barcamp some of those, as Tantek elik described them, having "strong self-confidence", pushed out several talks which I personally would have found much more interesting. Somehow we speak about computers, but when it comes to organising mobs of people... we forget to use them and fall back on personalities, Whiteboards and and pens. I definitely would prefer a parallel sessions system, where speakers register their topics (but not the time/slot). I also have a strong preference for Quickie talks. Speak up and shut up in 15 minutes by a computer clock. If you have more to say than that, break it up into more than one 15 minutes talk. (Maybe I need Ritalin) One conference I went to had a very strong character as the "host". He had a wee turbo pascal program that displayed a "Green" screen at the start of a slot and went progressively redder... At 3 minutes to go it beeped, at two minutes it beeped twice, at one minute long beep & LARGE FONT "TIMES UP!", at zero it started screaming and wouldn't be switched off until the speaker left the stage... What a pleasure that session was! Let the attendees register and rank their interests and let a wee scriptie do (and perhaps redo as circumstances change) the scheduling to maximize attendee happiness. I bet I could write a one page ruby script that polled a Wiki page, and if there are changes pull two CSV tables (topic,speaker) and (topic,attendee,rank) from a Wiki page and posts a tentative room,topic,speaker,time timetable to another wiki page. By the way, I did manage, in principle, to get agreement from our management to use Tait facilities over a weekend for a BarCamp. That agreement may well be subject to the specifics... but if you want to firm that up, propose a date and contact me. Facilities would be two training rooms, each seating about 50 people plus data projectors and a small breakout room seating about 5. 'net connection may be, from the security PoV, problematic, I'd have to discuss that more with our network guys. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : <email obscured> New Zealand
Hi all, After some discussion of BarCamp scheduling ideas at TVIC this evening I thought this had some points worth considering: <http://tantek.pbwiki.com/FooCampBarCampDifferences> (Care of this evening's international guest. :-) )
nope, we don't have any video stram here, but I am making recordings of all talks and will put them online somewhere afterwards. i'll be on IRC in a minute... On 9/7/07, Tim Carey-Smith <tim@spork.in> wrote: > Hey there, > > Any news on the video stream (if any?) > I am hanging in irc://irc.freenode.net/#barcamp-chch so someone feel free to keep me company :) > My nick is halorgium and I'm working with Chris Blair from ZoDAL out in New Brighton.
Hey there, Any news on the video stream (if any?) I am hanging in irc://irc.freenode.net/#barcamp-chch so someone feel free to keep me company :) My nick is halorgium and I'm working with Chris Blair from ZoDAL out in New Brighton. Be there after lunch, Tim
Hi John, Great thinking! It all sounds really good but not sure if we can manage much of that on short notice. We'll be doing a planning session on what to do for a weekend-based BarCampChristchurch2, and we'll definitely put down some of those as options!
Sorry to hear that Phil, was very much looking forward to your bit. Perhaps you can escape later in the day and remember we have WiFi - you could work away in the background and pretend you're taking notes :-)
[Now I've signed up here I'll post this here too.. :-) ] Got an iPhone? OpenMoko Neo1973? Arduino? How about an N770/N800? Shoe Communicator? OLPC? Got some *other* cool gadget? Want to show it off? Bring along your cool (purchased or made) gadget to the Gadget Session and share what's great and what sucks about it.
Sorry - lots of work has come up and I don't think I'll be able to make it tomorrow afternoon :( Have fun, everyone, and hope to catch you all next time!
I was just reading... http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/how-to-run-a-great-unconference-session/ and had a wee grue. I don't know what you guys have planned, but I suspect a series of lightly prepared powerpoint talks is not how to make this sort of thing fly. But looking at the "topics" list it looks mostly stand and talk at people. To make this thing fly we probably need more interact type sessions. Discussions / debates / panels? Coding races? Games? Code reading (print out some chunk of OSS code, review, critique design, learn from it, code up fixes, submit) Exquisite corpse for coders. Not knowing what the task is, each participant adds an element to the pipeline. Activism - pick in the something in the universe that pisses off a sizable portion of attendees, do a single small concrete thing about it. Pair program teams to perform program visualization.
I'm software process, version control, build tools, tool chain, unit test / tdd, ecos, design, online linux / c / c++ / ruby / ... oddbodkin at Tait Electronics.
On 9/4/07, Michael JasonSmith <mpj17@onlinegroups.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:05 +1200, Marek Kuziel wrote: > > my question is, do they know about the BarCampChCh so those who have > > talks on 6th could potentially come over? > > It is seen as terribly bad form to not attend the whole thing. Ah, I see. I wasn't aware of that.
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:05 +1200, Marek Kuziel wrote: > my question is, do they know about the BarCampChCh so those who have > talks on 6th could potentially come over? It is seen as terribly bad form to not attend the whole thing.
that means we can count in anyone who gives a talk on Sep 6th then. 50% success, not to bad ;-) my question is, do they know about the BarCampChCh so those who have talks on 6th could potentially come over? Marek On 9/4/07, Michael JasonSmith <mpj17@onlinegroups.net> wrote: > We can count anyone from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Canterbury out: the COSC postgrads are giving their talks on 6–7 September.
We can count anyone from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Canterbury out: the COSC postgrads are giving their talks on 6–7 September. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/open/conf/pg2007/
Terry Weaver says: > I don't think I could offer anything in the way of a talk Imagine you're telling a fellow geek, possibly a new geek like yourself: "Here's something interesting I found, and why I think it might be useful..." Then if you can explain something to one other geek, you can explain it to three or four, who will chip in with their own ideas, especially if you ask "has anyone else done/seen this sort of thing?". That's all a BarCamp talk needs to be. It doesn't have to be original research or a flashy demo, just geeks talking about stuff they find interesting. That's why everyone who participates can "give a talk".
Well I am still pretty new to been a geek and am still learning. I started using Ubuntu about 3 years ago and have made a lot of progress since then. I don't think I could offer anything in the way of a talk but I can point people in the right direction and carry things. This sounds like a really cool event and I am really looking forward to it.
Meeting at Cii 11am Friday 31st to finalise planning - come one and come all!
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 12:42 +1200, Ben Kepes wrote: > good work - let us know where it is so people can fill it in online I just added a line to the BarCampChristchurch page http://barcamp.org/BarCampChristchurch
good work - let us know where it is so people can fill it in online