BarCampSydney

A huge thank you:

• Everyone who came along!
• On-the-day unorganisers
  • Jean-Jacques Halans
  • Craig Sharkie
  • Marin Ivezic
  • Radzster
  • Ajay Ranipeta
  • Martha Bishay
• The sponsors:
  • Atlassian
  • Microsoft Australia
  • ThoughtWorks
  • Tangler
  • UnWired
  • Hothouse
  • Google
  • Yoick
  • Linux Australia
  • Freshview
  • Milkooler

Things to Keep:

• Venue worked well, but no overnight option although not necessary.
• The computer lab was good for the workshopping demos
• Linkup with another BarCamp
• UnWired access was good?
• The “lounge” just outside the rooms
• Circle of chairs versus rows of chairs

Things to change:

• Signup/announcement list system
• Have people announce ideas at the beginning to help with initial coordination and scheduling
• More detailed ideas before the BarCamp to allow for pre-reading, preparation — ununconference.
• Centralised schedule wall (with directions to “rooms”)
• Put lots more sheets of blank paper/static whiteboard sheets up for people to write whatever they want.
• Complaints about the quality of the food and coffee at the cafe. We can bring in a coffee wagon as was originally planned but about the food…unless we go to another venue we can’t change that. Yeah, that was nasty!
• The third room wasn’t used that much because it was just that bit too far away. If the numbers stay the same or less, we can do without it. If we get more, we may want to think about another venue… Rooms need to be close as possible.
• We’ve done the ‘bar’ part but not the ‘camp’ part yet. Any suggestions?
• Bigger t-shirts
• Borrow ideas from World Cafe (http://www.theworldcafe.com/)
• Avoid conversations directly outside rooms
• Lab was only 50% used - more workshops!
• DeBrief/feedback/idea session about the event at the end of the day and/or place to put comments up while the day is happening

Media Sharing:

• For those who had powerpoints, put them up at Slideshare and tag it BarCampSydney
• Check out the photos at flickr
• Some videos by Nick Hodge
• conversation (and here)
• Discuss at Tangler…

To keep informed about the BarCampSydney v0.2, make sure you put your name and email on the wiki

Let us know what you think we should keep and change?…

As Christy says: we’ll be back in about 3 months for another event

BarCampSydney was a great success with over 120 attendees and a wide range of topics/discussions/arguements.

You can check all the action on the flickr stream.