Barcamp Bournemouth 5

5th_birthday_cakeYes, you heard it right. It’s on. On like Donkey Kong.

All the Barcamp you love, at Bournemouth University, on the 9th March 10am till 10th March 4pm.

This year, we’re bigger and better than ever, with 120 tickets in the wings waiting to be dished out to you eager geeks. We’re using the tried and tested format from previous years, with extra fun.

So, uh, what are you waiting for? Get your ticket now.

Barcamp is here for you. So start thinking up your talks now. We’ll also have a hackspace available, so bring along your creative mind.

Looking to sponsor us? Then we have the page for you. If we get enough sponsor money, we’ll be bringing cake. If you choose to sponsor us, you’ll have the eternal thanks of over a hundred awesome geeks.

The BCBomo5 Team

And the winning room theme is…

The winning room theme this year is types of cake (battenberg, sponge, cheesecake, birthday…).

The full results are:

  • Types of cake (battenberg, sponge, cheesecake, birthday…) – 14 votes
  • Our 5th birthday party (Pass The Parcel, The Hokey Cokey, Jelly & Ice…) – 6 Votes
  • Around Bletchley Park (Bombe, Lorenz, Enigma, Colossus, Hut 11a…) – 4 votes

Thanks to everyone who voted, we will now create the room name signs.

See you at BarCamp Bournemouth 5

Vote for room names theme

As is tradition we will be naming the rooms after a theme and took suggestions via our twitter account.

Please visit http://doodle.com/6r4dmpgup74ck62b and choose your favorite, the room names will be named after the most popular theme. Voting closes Thursday evening.

The options you can vote on are:

  • Our 5th birthday party (Pass The Parcel, The Hokey Cokey, Jelly & Ice…)
  • Types of cake (battenberg, sponge, cheesecake, birthday…)
  • Around Bletchley Park (Bombe, Lorenz, Enigma, Colossus, Hut 11a…)

Many thanks to everyone who suggested themes.

Planning underway

Planning underway

Well it’s that time of year again that we need to set the wheels in motion to make sure BarCamp Bournemouth 5. The team behind the past BarCamps in the town want to make BCBOMO5 the biggest and bestest one that Bournemouth has ever seen. So how are we going to make this happen…?

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BarCamp Bournemouth 4

BarCamp Bournemouth 4 came back again in 2012 with an aim of making the event bigger and better than before. With all tickets gone the weekend started strong with the timetable filling up quickly.

This year’s event raised the bar on quality with a plethora of interesting, thought-provoking and fresh ideas. Both veterans and newbies alike raised topics penetration testing, the development of Formula 1 cars, how piracy fuels resilience, getting a job and not forgetting a strong presence from the design community’s greatest minds discussing web, fonts and learning tools for web development.

The new kid this year though was the Hackspace. This little bundle established itself early in the weekend as a great laboratory of unstoppable force connecting digital minds and machines in a patchwork of systems and protocols that Mary Shelley would have been proud of. Pushing right through the night and into the Sunday, Hackspace presented its “contraptlications” to bring the event to a close with Syd and Adam walking away with this year’s box of hacking goodies.

The legacy of BarCamp in Bournemouth has grown larger and the standard grown to a new high. As 2013 looms the question stands – what do you think we’ll see next year?

  • Personal live video feeds to the web as social media takes a step too far?
  • Your fridge and cooker begin talking over network as your home becomes sentient?
  • Programming be taught in primary schools and the death of traditional education?
  • Birthday cake at BarCamp Bournemouth 5?!

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