I’m currently at BarCampLondon2 having a whale of a time. This morning I managed to make it to the venue eventually (after hitting the snooze button a few times after my 5am wake-up call, I’ll admit…) and am really enjoying socialising with all my fellow geeks.
My presentation seemed to go down quite well — I think I had about 40 people in the session, which given there are about 160 here in total I am VERY chuffed with 🙂 Just hope people found it useful!
So far I’ve seen and enjoyed:
- Ian Forrester‘s pipes presentation, talking about various different “pipe” concepts and tools
- Tom Morris talking about RDF — not sure he convinced anyone that Microformats should be jettisoned, but interesting from my POV to see how RDF can be used on the web these days.
- Guy‘s great session about how test driven development can be very useful when working with outsourced/offshored development
- Norm!, James, Jeremy, Simon, Steve and Ryan just being silly in their “Ask Me Anything” session. I particularly loved Norm! telling someone that his daughter spending all her time online and never playing outside was not the internet’s fault but his because he’s a bad parent 😉
- Leeky talking about horrendous over-complication of solutions — very entertaining as well as worrying!
- James doing an improvisation session
- Jim Purbrick talking about SecondLife being used as a prototype for real-life innovation
- Tom Coates doing his Greater Than The Sum of Its Parts presentation, which unfortunately I missed the beginning of but really enjoyed what I did see.
Tags: BarCampLondon2, BarCamp, unconference, presentations, conferences.
Posted by Meri @ 6:18 PM on February 17, 2007
Comments (6) Permalink
Comments (6) Permalink
February 17th, 2007 at 9:26 PM
Thanks for the link, Meri. I’m glad you enjoyed my talk. I wasn’t trying to convince anyone to jettison microformats – I’m suggesting that there are numerous instances of things which can’t be microformatted easily, and there RDF is as workable as microformats. And there are certain neat tools that make RDF a worthwhile enterprise and not something to be sniffed at.
February 19th, 2007 at 11:07 AM
Thanks for the positive review of my talk! Has certainly encouraged me to do another. I definitely feel more involved with the weekend having done one.
February 19th, 2007 at 1:38 PM
It was great to meet you at Barcamp ! My favourite talks were the Ask me anything and the State of accessibility session. Keep in touch – hope to see you at the next barcamp.
February 19th, 2007 at 3:09 PM
@Leeky : your talk was *great*. I think choosing funny material helped alot !
February 20th, 2007 at 10:08 PM
Hi Meri, I really enjoyed your talk.
I looked in to getting you a blog URL. It turns out that our blog host doesn’t support author URLs, but Yahoo Pipes comes to the rescue:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/KETJMivB2xG2xvrUJZhxuA
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/KETJMivB2xG2xvrUJZhxuA/run?textinput1=babbagelinden&_render=rss
My BarCamp talk is also blogged here:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/02/20/augmented-virtual-reality/
February 25th, 2007 at 12:44 AM
@Tom: No, I understand that. I think what a lot of the audience took away though was “RDF can do what microformats does”. I think what maybe wasn’t so clear was what RDF is good for that microformats ISN’T providing (and never will).
@Mark & Leeky: Was great to meet you guys!
@Jim: Thanks, I really enjoyed yours as well — have duly linked the original post with your blog post.