Post-mortem, post-Brighton

Monday, September 10, 2007 - 21:13

I originally wrote a long spiel about Barcamp Brighton, but it was far too boring. Suffice it to say that I had a fantastic time; everyone was friendly, interesting, interested and good fun to spend time with. The free food was amazing---pizza, sushi, buffets, croissants, muffins, etc. etc. etc.---and the general atmosphere was more like a party with friends and acquaintances than a conference.

Special thanks to Glenn Jones and the other organisers, but I'd also like to give a hat-tip to the talks I saw:

(Saturday)

  • Glyn Wintle for his two-minute explanation of how to defeat DRM with consumer-choice legislation
  • Ryan Carson for his dream of the 4-day week
  • Tom Morris for a demonstration of using RDF for actual fun things
  • Jeremy Keith for explaining how social networks can work together without necessarily losing users
  • Paul Annett for revealing the secrets of his truly world-famous card trick
  • Jim Purbrick for explaining how humans are engines for web-enabling stuff
  • Norm Francis, Steve Marshall, Tom Coates, Ryan Alexander and [name forgotten, despite his excellent Werewolf moderation: oops] for letting us ask them anything, but only really remembering that Steve still lives with his parents

(Sunday)

  • An unnamed northerner, for his RESTful rabbits and the joys of a Nabaztag
  • Andrew Godwin for his beautiful graphs and the how-to behind them
  • Natalie Downe for her show and tell
  • Matthew Somerville for explaining why Cornwall is part of England, and Wikipedia is dead

Barcamps are a blast. Support your local unconference.

Comments

FatBusinessman (not verified)

Tue, 11/09/2007 - 10:37

The unnamed Northerner was Gareth Rushgrove and the Werewolf moderator was Jeremy Keith.

Oh, and thank you for the network cable. Hope to see you at a future BarCamp.

jps (not verified)

Wed, 12/09/2007 - 08:54

Excellent. I knew I could rely on the wisdom of the community at large to fill in the gaps in my social capability. I'm surprised I didn't connect him with the portability talk, though, but then that was quite a shared talk among two or three speakers.

Lovely to see you, anyway. I came home with all three of my network cables, which astonished me, frankly.