BarCamp Melbourne 2.0 planning is now well under way, and the event is slated to run on the 1st and 2nd of March 2008. The first BarCamp Melbourne had 10 participants, which isn’t bad considering the venue was over 2 hours from Melbourne! This time, we’re looking for a venue in, or very close to, the centre of Melbourne, and hope to get 50 to 100 participants.
Described as “an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees”, anyone is welcome to come along for free. Everyone is asked to participate by giving a presentation or leading a discussion, essentially forcing the sharing of ideas and knowledge. You might like to check out the BarCamp web site for more general information. Wikipedia’s entry on BarCamp might also be of interest.
I’ll post more updates as things progress, but in the meanwhile, sign up as a participant if you’d like to come along, spread the word about BarCamp Melbourne 2.0, and if you want to, or know someone that wants to sponsor this event, please check out or point them to the sponsorship page.
The call for papers is now officially out for the Open Source Developers’ Conference 2007. This year is the first non-Melbourne year, with the event being managed by a new organisational committee in Brisbane!
So add the 26th – 29th of November to your diaries, and get your papers submitted by the 30th of June, and I’ll see you in Brisbane in 6 months!
Gary was going to go and buy last minute items, such as paper, notepads, etc. when Sandrine called to tell me that Melbourne University’s Department of Information Systems are lending/giving us whatever stationary we need, so we now have butcher paper, notepads, tape, sticky putty for sticking paper to walls, and so forth.
In other news, we are now fully sponsored. With Andrew’s help, Huge Object have come in at the last minute and given us some cash, so we can now officially afford the venu and catering! Hooray and thanks!
Creative Contingencies are a Melbourne based micro-business dedicated to finding the right solution for each of our clients. They believe that Open Source Software solutions are often the answer they’ve been searching for.
Many thanks to Creative Contingencies for providing lanyards and badge holders!
In joint second place for the race to sponsor BarCampMelbourne come two community organisations, Linux Australia and the Open Source Developers’ Club.
Linux Australia Inc. was founded to cater specifically to the needs of the Australian Linux community. Australia has unique problems that confront those attempting to organise and coordinate user groups and other support mechanisms because of its high urbanisation and large geographic distances between populated areas. Linux Australia hopes to assist in bringing the disparate pockets of Linux support into a single forum by encouraging and facilitating communication between these groups.
Under their Grants Scheme, Linux Australia has kindly sponsored all four BarCampAustralia venues!
The Open Source Developers’ Club runs meetings in Melbourne every other month, and an annual Conference, designed for developers, by developers, covering numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems with talks from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical.
Profits from conferences are used not only to prepare for future conferences, but also to support community events, such as BarCamps.
Thanks to all our sponsors!
