BarCamp London 9 schedule

Saturday 29th October 2011

• Ask a startup anything

  by Imran Ghory, Cristiano Betta and Josh Liu

  Thought about making a startup but have questions ? Come and ask them (any topic welcome)!

  • Startups

  At 5:45pm to 6:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Eastwick, City University Social Sciences Building

• Intro to Arduino

  by Dan Hagon

  Semi hands-on session with Arduino

  • Arduino
  • Hardware Hacking

  At 5:45pm to 6:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

  Coverage link

• Jamming (with fruit)

  by Rachel Brown

  Why making jam is a great hobby, even if you are not an actual 1950's grandmother.

  • Jam Making

  At 5:45pm to 6:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Little Shop of Horrors, City University Social Sciences Building

• OpenStreetMap developer ecosystem

  by Harry Wood

  OpenStreetMap for developers. basic web developer usage, and a myriad of other geo possibilities beyond. An overview of the developer ecosystem around OpenStreetMap data, how web and mobile app developers can use OpenStreetMap, and how the OpenStreetMap tile server is only a small part of that.

  This will be a repeat of my OpenTech talk from earlier this year, maybe with a bit more time for questions

  • OpenStreetMap

  At 5:45pm to 6:15pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Pan's Labyrinth, City University Social Sciences Building

• Two Security Geeks Ranting

  by Alec Muffett and Glyn Wintle

  Glyn and Alec talking, come join in.
  We are not scary ... honest. :)

  • Security

  At 5:45pm to 6:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Lake Placid, City University Social Sciences Building

• Ask Us Anything

  by Ryan Alexander and Mark Norman Francis

  We prepared nothing; ask us anything. An improvised and not entirely serious session.

  • Improvisation

  At 6:15pm to 7:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Little Shop of Horrors, City University Social Sciences Building

• Doing RPC in python with RPYC

  by Nahuel M

  RPYC is a python library for remote procedure calls that allows you to manipulate remote objects as if they were local.

  • Python

  At 6:15pm to 6:40pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Lake Placid, City University Social Sciences Building

• Engaging Universities

  by Kate Reader

  The motivations for universities to host events like Barcamp talk will have tips and tricks for getting them to engage.

  • Event Planning

  At 6:15pm to 6:40pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Pan's Labyrinth, City University Social Sciences Building

• Intro to Kinect

  by Dan Hagon

  A hands-off session :)

  • Hardware Hacking
  • Kinect

  At 6:15pm to 6:40pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

  Coverage link

• Is it desirable to game our socialising?

  by Simon Fox

  Can games do measurably positive things? Is it desirable to play games with how we socialise?

  • Games for Social Impact
  • Gamification

  At 6:15pm to 6:40pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Amityville, City University Social Sciences Building

• Spiritual Geeks.....

  by Farhan Rehman

  Is it possible to be geeky and spiritual?

  • Geek
  • Spirituality

  At 6:15pm to 6:40pm, Saturday 29th October

  In 0001 Cemetery Lane, City University Social Sciences Building

• Doing Market Research

  by Surinder Siama

  • Market Research

  At 6:45pm to 7:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In 0001 Cemetery Lane, City University Social Sciences Building

• Intro to Robot Navigation

  by Simon Parton

  A basic introduction of navigation for robots real world environments

  • Hardware Hacking
  • Robots

  At 6:45pm to 7:10pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• I love my game console.

  by Cristiano Betta

  Serious gaming? Gamification? MMO's? Blegh.
  I love playing games on my own on my Xbox 360. Let me show you what games.

  • Games
  • XBox

  At 8:40pm to 9:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Little Shop of Horrors, City University Social Sciences Building

• Let me make you laugh.

  by Lalita D'Cruze

  A dry run of some stand up material.

  • Comedy

  At 8:40pm to 9:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In 0001 Cemetery Lane, City University Social Sciences Building

• Make Your Own Old Fashioned Cocktail

  by Ryan Alexander

  The Old Fashioned cocktail is possibly the first cocktail and a powerful tool for learning about spirits and mixology.

  • Cocktails

  At 8:40pm to 9:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• The Offline Web

  by Luke Blaney

  How we turn offline siloes into a web.

  • Offline

  At 8:40pm to 9:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Island of Lost Souls, City University Social Sciences Building

• Improvised Singalong...

  by Dylan Beattie

  You know the hoe-down round on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Ever wanted to try it? Come and have a go...

  • Improvisation

  At 9:10pm to 9:30pm, Saturday 29th October

  In Lake Placid, City University Social Sciences Building

• The Big Quiz

  by Dom Hodgson and Alistair MacDonald

  May involve a horse, Will no longer contain a round of racing the chairs around the university.. may contain nuts..

  • Quiz

  At 9:10pm to 10:00pm, Saturday 29th October

  In 0001 Cemetery Lane, City University Social Sciences Building

Sunday 30th October 2011

• A Discussion about Co-Working and Hack/Maker Spaces!

  by Paul Freeman

  What do people want from Co-Working, Hackspaces, Maker Spaces and community venues?

  • Coworking

  At 10:00am to 10:30am, Sunday 30th October

  In Eastwick, City University Social Sciences Building

• Technology's impact on society and social skills

  by Simion

  Hai . im only going to talk about technology's impact on our lifes ( duh ) . come here if you have nothing better to do.

  • Technology

  At 10:00am to 10:30am, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• The Short History of Bemani

  by Gideon Brett

  A history on the most famous music game series on this Earth (you may not know it as this name, but its famous)

  • Games

  At 10:00am to 10:30am, Sunday 30th October

  In Little Shop of Horrors, City University Social Sciences Building

• 10 Things I like about Scala

  by Joost Heijkoop

  I had bit of experience with Scala and like to share what I liked. Feel free to join in and share your experiences.

  • Scala

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In Little Shop of Horrors, City University Social Sciences Building

• An open discussion about PHP web frameworks and Symfony2

  by Agoston Fung

  I will try to convince you that Symfony2 is the best PHP MVC framework out in the market. Come and tell me your oppinion!

  • PHP
  • Symfony

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In 0001 Cemetery Lane, City University Social Sciences Building

• Messing with the web... a Firefox addon in 10 mins

  by David Illsley

  Mozilla have built an on-line builder for addons. Use it to build an addon which interacts with the web in 10 minutes

  • Firefox
  • Firefox Extensions
  • Mozilla

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In Burkittsville, City University Social Sciences Building

• Pixel Perfect Productivity

  by Gavin McFarland

  I share my experiences on getting pixels to behave in Illustrator, what makes a good workflow and lots of other stuff!

  • Design
  • Illustrator

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In Eastwick, City University Social Sciences Building

• Puppet for Dev and Ops

  by David Thompson

  What Puppet is, how it works and why you should use it.

  • Puppet

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In Lake Placid, City University Social Sciences Building

• Recession? Again? How I survived the last one!

  by Proactive Paul

  Could you take a 30% pay cut? In effect that is what happened to me in the recession of 2008/09. Some fail. Some survive. Why?

  • Recession

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In The Black Lagoon, City University Social Sciences Building

• The Dvorak Keyboard or How I learned to Love Typing Again

  by Abizer Nasir

  How and Why I changed my keyboard layout, and how you can too.

  • Dvorak

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In Pan's Labyrinth, City University Social Sciences Building

• Windows Phone Overview

  by Kevin Lewis

  Overview of Microsoft new Mobile OS.

  • Windows Phone

  At 10:40am to 11:10am, Sunday 30th October

  In Amityville, City University Social Sciences Building