And the winning theme is……. pauses for dramatic effect…… Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock I will now create the room signs. The voting started of scattered with 1 vote each for most of the entries except for “Turing Award winners” which didn’t look like it would ever get a vote and ended with just 1 vote. Then after a short while all options (except turing) gained a little popularity until a leader appeared in the form of “Episode names from Look Around You” and for most of the vote it looked like it would be the winner. Then out of nowhere...

This is a guest post by Rob Hawkes, a Technical Evangelist at Mozilla. Rob lives and works in Bournemouth and also studied for 3 years at Bournemouth University. This Saturday the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) are proud to be sponsoring the new hackspace at BarCamp Bournemouth. Mozilla believes in a Web that is hackable so it was logical to help support the BarCamp when I heard that there was going to be a space for hacking this year. Anything that encourages people to break things down and learn how they work is good in my book. I hold a special place in my heart for the local BarCamp and I’m...

As is tradition we will be naming the rooms after a theme and took suggestions via our twitter account and this site. Please visit http://doodle.com/9stfh5vn6pa2yegy and choose your favourite, the room names will be named after the most popular theme. Voting closes Thursday evening.   The options you can vote on via http://doodle.com/9stfh5vn6pa2yegy are: IT Legends (Gates, Jobs, Berners-Lee etc) Android Releases (Cupcake, Donut, Gingerbread etc) Big Bang Theory (The TV show) – Suggested by @mccallumcharlie Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock – Suggested by @egelmex Text Editors...

It’s almost time; this time next weekend BarCamp Bournemouth 4 will have began and lots of wonderful talks will be taking place. Planning is going well, we have the venue organised thanks to Bournemouth University and will be able to provide 2 meals thanks to BCS Dorset and Mozilla. And there is is more good news, with Mozilla as the Saturday hackspace sponsor they will be bringing along some cool tech and probably some giveaways. We would like to provide more free meals so if you know of anyone who can sponsor then send them over to our Sponsors Page for more details. And finally as is...

Barcamp Bournemouth 4 is an unconference for anyone interested in the Web, IT, gadgets, mobile, apps… held on Saturday 3rd March 2012 10am until Sunday 4th March 2012 4pm at Bournemouth University. For more information browse our website. The About/FAQs section should provide all the answers to common questions. If you think you can sponsor us please visit the sponsors page for more information. Newsflash: The final batch of tickets are now available from...