Sunday, February 3. 2008
BarCampScotland2008 : Initial impressions & slides
The second BarCampScotland event finished yesterday. This was the first BarCamp event I've attended and I have to say I was impressed.
Almost without exception I would describe the talks I attended as interesting or very interesting. I plan to post summaries and link to slides where possible in a later post.
The facilities were also quite impressive. Appleton Tower always looks to me to be a rather drab building from the outside but the concourse, where BarCamp was based, was a deceptively impressive space and certainly met our needs. Having said that I don't know whether they turn the heating off on the weekend but it was definitely chilly.
There were five large (easily seating 100+ people) lecture theatres available on two levels which were again well equipped. For the number of laptops I saw out on display the power sockets beneath every other seat would have been invaluable. It was only in the penultimate session I realised they were there but as that was when I started being concerned about power it all worked out well.
The Slides
I spoke in the morning about contact importers and where I felt they were going in the future.
I've embedded the slidecast below. Feel free to link to it or embed it elsewhere.
Almost without exception I would describe the talks I attended as interesting or very interesting. I plan to post summaries and link to slides where possible in a later post.
The facilities were also quite impressive. Appleton Tower always looks to me to be a rather drab building from the outside but the concourse, where BarCamp was based, was a deceptively impressive space and certainly met our needs. Having said that I don't know whether they turn the heating off on the weekend but it was definitely chilly.
There were five large (easily seating 100+ people) lecture theatres available on two levels which were again well equipped. For the number of laptops I saw out on display the power sockets beneath every other seat would have been invaluable. It was only in the penultimate session I realised they were there but as that was when I started being concerned about power it all worked out well.
The Slides
I spoke in the morning about contact importers and where I felt they were going in the future.
I've embedded the slidecast below. Feel free to link to it or embed it elsewhere.
