Scheduling ideas
From:
John Carter
Date:
May 14 01:27 UTC
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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
Scheduling ideas
From:
Philip Lindsay
Date:
May 13 12:35 UTC
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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. :-) )
--Phil.
P.S. Aren't you impressed I actually used the correct list? :)
For those who can't make it early?
From:
Marek Kuziel
Date:
2007 Sep 06 22:47 UTC
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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 <<email obscured>> 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.
For those who can't make it early?
From:
Tim Carey-Smith
Date:
2007 Sep 06 21:51 UTC
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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
Interactivity in the Sessions...
From:
Seth Wagoner
Date:
2007 Sep 06 21:16 UTC
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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!
Cheers,
Seth.
John Carter wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------------- Full text of this topic:
> http://barcamp.onlinegroups.net/r/topic/4ThIfcwQa1tfsQGaPlYii6
>
> Info about BarCamp Christchurch:
> http://barcamp.onlinegroups.net/groups/barcampchristchurch
>
> Info about John Carter:
> http://barcamp.onlinegroups.net/contacts/JohnCarter
>
> To leave BarCamp Christchurch, email
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> subject
>
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>
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Sorry, probably not going to make it
From:
Seth Wagoner
Date:
2007 Sep 06 21:14 UTC
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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 :-)
BYO Gadget Session
From:
Philip Lindsay
Date:
2007 Sep 06 10:21 UTC
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[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.
--Phil.
P.S. Got some gadget you *don't* want any more? Maybe bring that along too...
:-)
Sorry, probably not going to make it
From:
Phillip Pearson
Date:
2007 Sep 06 09:39 UTC
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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!
Interactivity in the Sessions...
From:
John Carter
Date:
2007 Sep 06 00:52 UTC
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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.
Introductions
From:
John Carter
Date:
2007 Sep 05 02:06 UTC
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I'm software process, version control, build tools, tool chain, unit test /
tdd, ecos, design, online linux / c / c++ / ruby / ... oddbodkin at Tait
Electronics.
Conflicting Events
From:
Marek Kuziel
Date:
2007 Sep 03 23:17 UTC
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On 9/4/07, Michael JasonSmith <<email obscured>> 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.
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Conflicting Events
From:
Michael JasonSmith
Date:
2007 Sep 03 23:14 UTC
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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.
Conflicting Events
From:
Marek Kuziel
Date:
2007 Sep 03 23:05 UTC
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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 <<email obscured>> 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.
Conflicting Events
From:
Michael JasonSmith
Date:
2007 Sep 03 22:27 UTC
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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/
Introductions
From:
Stephen Viles
Date:
2007 Sep 01 21:07 UTC
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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".
Introductions
From:
Terry Weaver
Date:
2007 Aug 31 22:57 UTC
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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.
BarCamp Christchurch - status,
From:
Ben Kepes
Date:
2007 Aug 29 09:30 UTC
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Meeting at Cii 11am Friday 31st to finalise planning - come one and come all!
Sessions
From:
Michael JasonSmith
Date:
2007 Aug 29 00:46 UTC
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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
Sessions
From:
Ben Kepes
Date:
2007 Aug 29 00:40 UTC
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good work - let us know where it is so people can fill it in online