Sunday, January 20. 2008
BarCampScotland2008
I plan on attending the second BarCamp event in Edinburgh at the start of next month. If you haven't heard of Barcamp before take a look at their site.
The first BarCampScotland even took place last year but I didn't know about it at the time so this will be the first I have attended. The intention with BarCamp seems to be to generate as much online content as possible. Videos on youtube, photos on flickr, presentations on slideshare. Wanting to know what I was letting myself in for I decided to set some time today to see what has previously been posted.
There isn't really much content, except photos, from the first BarCampScotland so I started to expand my search to BarCamp in general. There has been some decent content presented by various people. Below are some I found particularly interesting (though in no particular order . . .
DIY User Research
Leisa Reichelt
This isn't really an area I know much about though though have the uncomfortable feeling that I should. It is a nice introduction though be prepared for the slides running out before the 'story' is complete.
Leisa also presented at FOWA. Her slides and audio are also available.
How to Scale
George Palmer
This is perhaps the most complete overview of scaling a web application I've seen. I suspect the actual presentation would have felt something like a whirlwind going overhead but as we can take our time over each slide it's manageable, and very informative.
Introduction to SlideShare
Kapil Mohan
An introduction to SildeShare at BarCamp and posted to SlideShare. Naturally.
In my opinion they were the best 3 of the first 60. There were 275 in total. If you want to see more you can continue the search.
BarCampScotland
There were not many but there were some . . .
p.s. SlideShare supports audio. When did that happen? Lack of audio support was my main objection to the idea. Having said that none of the presentations have audio which is a shame.
The first BarCampScotland even took place last year but I didn't know about it at the time so this will be the first I have attended. The intention with BarCamp seems to be to generate as much online content as possible. Videos on youtube, photos on flickr, presentations on slideshare. Wanting to know what I was letting myself in for I decided to set some time today to see what has previously been posted.
There isn't really much content, except photos, from the first BarCampScotland so I started to expand my search to BarCamp in general. There has been some decent content presented by various people. Below are some I found particularly interesting (though in no particular order . . .
DIY User Research
Leisa Reichelt
This isn't really an area I know much about though though have the uncomfortable feeling that I should. It is a nice introduction though be prepared for the slides running out before the 'story' is complete.
Leisa also presented at FOWA. Her slides and audio are also available.
How to Scale
George Palmer
This is perhaps the most complete overview of scaling a web application I've seen. I suspect the actual presentation would have felt something like a whirlwind going overhead but as we can take our time over each slide it's manageable, and very informative.
Introduction to SlideShare
Kapil Mohan
An introduction to SildeShare at BarCamp and posted to SlideShare. Naturally.
In my opinion they were the best 3 of the first 60. There were 275 in total. If you want to see more you can continue the search.
BarCampScotland
There were not many but there were some . . .
p.s. SlideShare supports audio. When did that happen? Lack of audio support was my main objection to the idea. Having said that none of the presentations have audio which is a shame.
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