Barcamp Apache Oxford
5th April, I attended Barcamp Apache Oxford - a concept I'd heard about from Matt Badham and Pete Ashton, and an event which I'd heard about 5 days before from Damian Cugley, and began investigating on the Friday afternoon. I'm going to try to break this down over a few posts to record what I learnt that weekend.
A barcamp "is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants...organized and evangelized largely through the web". Go read the Wikipedia entry which sums it up quite nicely.
I was lucky enough to put my name down the night before the event, which is probably not recommended practice. BarCampApacheOxford was set up through e-homes all over and this wiki and e-homes all over. Heres the Twitter feed at #barcampoxford which will give you an idea of the some of the scale.
Along with the presentations, truly refreshing was also provided by the sponsors, "OSS Watch, Torchbox, Nearly Done and The Apache Software Foundation with additional contribution from 1000heads". I'm user to the idea of sponsors lurking around like parasites branding their name and protocol on every object within a hundred feet. Not so these guys. Branding was subtle, and an aside to the facilitating aspects, such as food, coffee, funding. Their was no company breath insistence of being right and you should get with us. More like, here: have some stuff to help you out. Among these were supplied pens, pencils and paper. I put them to good use taking dilligent notes, and the posts following are these available as a token of my thanks.
5th April, I attended Barcamp Apache Oxford - a concept I'd heard about from Matt Badham and Pete Ashton, and an event which I'd heard about 5 days before from Damian Cugley, and began investigating on the Friday afternoon. I'm going to try to break this down over a few posts to record what I learnt that weekend.
A barcamp "is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants...organized and evangelized largely through the web". Go read the Wikipedia entry which sums it up quite nicely.
I was lucky enough to put my name down the night before the event, which is probably not recommended practice. BarCampApacheOxford was set up through e-homes all over and this wiki and e-homes all over. Heres the Twitter feed at #barcampoxford which will give you an idea of the some of the scale.
Along with the presentations, truly refreshing was also provided by the sponsors, "OSS Watch, Torchbox, Nearly Done and The Apache Software Foundation with additional contribution from 1000heads". I'm user to the idea of sponsors lurking around like parasites branding their name and protocol on every object within a hundred feet. Not so these guys. Branding was subtle, and an aside to the facilitating aspects, such as food, coffee, funding. Their was no company breath insistence of being right and you should get with us. More like, here: have some stuff to help you out. Among these were supplied pens, pencils and paper. I put them to good use taking dilligent notes, and the posts following are these available as a token of my thanks.
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