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BarCampOxford Announcements

February 7th, 2008 by daniel

Hello,

I was at Oxford Geek Night 5 last night to announce BarCampOxford stuff, except I kinda messed it up:

BarCampOxford Announcements at OGN5

(photo taken by Alex Blok of O’Wonder)

The messing up was probably due to a number of reasons:

  • My co-organiser (Pete Cooper) not being there because of illness, and being told about that a couple of hours before the evening
  • Not being able meeting someone else before the evening about a project, because she is currently ill
  • I started taking Bisoprolol Fumarate (a beta-blocker) that day to treat my Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Just not being prepared to do the announcements in that break

But oh well, as Alex Blok said to me last night:

You did fine. After all, if Bar Camp is supposed to be unprepared and chaotic, you just summed it up perfectly… :-)

So, anyway. I have created some slides and a little video to show whats really going on with BarCampOxford:

Also go to the BarCampOxford website for more information.

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  • 1 daniel Feb 7, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    Rough Transcript of the video:

    Hi,
    I am Daniel Lewis and I am here to tell you about BarCampOxford.

    BarCampOxford will be a BarCamp in Oxford. So what is a BarCamp I here you say?

    Well its a bit like a conference, but its entirely free and open. The idea of a barcamp is that everybody that attends helps out in some way, in most cases this will be by doing a presentation or a demo and in other cases this will be through helping out with organisation or hardware etc. Its a lot of fun, a good chance to learn things and a good chance to network. BarCamps are typically done during a weekend, and BarCampOxford will be done over a weekend during May 2008.

    Right so. Its currently Pete Cooper and myself who are the core-organisers, we are currently searching for a location and funding. So if you know of anywhere which would be good for a bunch of people to do some presentations, talk, eat and use WiFi then please to let us know. If you are also a lovely company/business/organisation that is willing to fund our food and drink then also let us know, because you’ll get your brand posted around the place.

    For BarCampOxford we are intending to have 4 streams, or target areas of interest. Initial ideas for streams include, Software Development, Web Development (including the Semantic Web), Creative Design and Multimedia, and finally Education and Learning Technology. But we aren’t limiting it to these topics, its free and open to all.

    We have a website, which is:
    http://barcamp.org/BarCampOxford

    Thank you.

  • 2 J-P Feb 7, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Daniel,

    So sorry it was all a bit anarchic. It sounds like everybody’s ill at the moment, one way or another. I was on my last day of double-dose antibiotics yesterday so I wasn’t at my most alert.

    We’ll get stuff about Barcamp Oxford on the OGN mailing list by the weekend, no probs.

    J-P

  • 3 daniel Feb 7, 2008 at 9:52 pm

    Hi J-P,

    Thanks for the comment, and not to worry about the anarchy yesterday. It was to be expected, note the quote from Alex Blok in the post ;-)

    I hope you are well.

    Many thanks for all your help,

    Daniel

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