Bar Camp Bournemouth http://barcampbournemouth.org a Bar Camp in Bournemouth Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:19:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Room Names Theme Vote – The Results http://barcampbournemouth.org/room-names-theme-vote-the-results/ http://barcampbournemouth.org/room-names-theme-vote-the-results/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:46:55 +0000 Paul http://barcampbournemouth.org/?p=194 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 “Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock” gained popularity and took the lead to become the winner. The final results are:

  • Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock – 8 Votes
  • Episode names from Look Around You? (Water, Maths, Sodium, Germs, Ghosts, Music, Iron, Brain, etc.) – 7 Votes
  • Text Editors (Emacs, vim, Eclipse, TextMate, SublimeText, Notepad++, BBEdit, etc) – 4 Votes
  • Android Releases (Cupcake, Donut, Gingerbread etc) – 4 Votes
  • Big Bang Theory (The TV show) – 3 Votes
  • IT Legends (Gates, Jobs, Berners-Lee etc) – 3 Votes
  • Turing Award winners. (Hamming, Knuth, Hoare, Sutherland, Thomson & Ritchie) – 1 Vote

Thanks to everyone who suggested the themes and many thanks to those who voted.

]]> http://barcampbournemouth.org/room-names-theme-vote-the-results/feed/ 0 Play with the Gamepad API and more at the Mozilla Hackspace http://barcampbournemouth.org/play-with-the-gamepad-api-and-more-at-the-mozilla-hackspace/ http://barcampbournemouth.org/play-with-the-gamepad-api-and-more-at-the-mozilla-hackspace/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:03:08 +0000 Rob Hawkes http://barcampbournemouth.org/?p=175 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 really happy to help support it this year. Not too long ago it was the place where I did my first ever bit of public speaking. It’s a great opportunity for anyone to come along and talk about what they love.

The MDN hackspace will be open all day Saturday and anyone is free to come along and hack on any projects that they’re already working on or want to start during the weekend. You’ll get extra kudos if you hack on a Web-based project.

Gamepad API

At Mozilla we’re placing a big focus on game development on the Web with technologies like JavaScript. This is my area of focus at Mozilla and because of this I’ll be bringing along 6 Logitech F510 gamepads for you to play with so you can hack around with the new Gamepad API in Firefox and Chrome. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to use the Gamepad API yet, I’ll be putting on a talk in the hackspace at the beginning of the day to show everyone how to use it. I’ll also be hanging around the whole day to help anyone with questions about it.

Stack of gamepads

Boot to Gecko

You may have heard about Mozilla’s latest project, Boot to Gecko. This is our vision of a new mobile platform that is built around open Web technologies like JavaScript. It’s still early days but I’ll make sure to bring along a demo for people to see in the hackspace if they’re interested. It’s quite exciting to see the future of mobile.

See you there!

I’m excited to attend this year and I’m looking forward to hanging around in the hackspace and seeing all the projects that people are working on.

See you on Saturday!

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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 (Emacs, vim, Eclipse, TextMate, SublimeText, Notepad++, BBEdit, etc) – Suggested by @abizern
  • Episode names from Look Around You? (Water, Maths, Sodium, Germs, Ghosts, Music, Iron, Brain, etc.) – Suggested by @jonginn
  • Turing Award winners. (Hamming, Knuth, Hoare, Sutherland, Thomson & Ritchie) – Suggested by @RalphCorderoy

Many thanks to everyone who suggested themes.

]]> http://barcampbournemouth.org/vote-for-room-names-theme/feed/ 0 1 week to go, time for a room theme http://barcampbournemouth.org/1-week-to-go/ http://barcampbournemouth.org/1-week-to-go/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:44:52 +0000 Paul http://barcampbournemouth.org/?p=138 Our Generous Sponsors/Supporters 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 tradition we will be naming the rooms after a theme and are taking suggestions so let us know via twitter or the comments below and we will set up a vote soon to establish the most popular suggestion.

My ideas are:

  • IT Legends (Gates, Jobs, Berners-Lee etc)
  • Android Releases (Cupcake, Donut, Gingerbread etc)

Other peoples suggestions:

  • Big Bang Theory (The TV show) – Suggested by @mccallumcharlie
  • Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock – Suggested by @egelmex
  • Text Editors (Emacs, vim, Eclipse, TextMate, SublimeText, Notepad++, BBEdit, etc) – Suggested by @abizern
  • Episode names from Look Around You? (Water, Maths, Sodium, Germs, Ghosts, Music, Iron, Brain, etc.) – Suggested by @jonginn
  • Turing Award winners. (Hamming, Knuth, Hoare, Sutherland, Thomson & Ritchie) – Suggested by @RalphCorderoy
]]> http://barcampbournemouth.org/1-week-to-go/feed/ 0 Bar Camp Bournemouth 4 http://barcampbournemouth.org/bar-camp-bournemouth-4/ http://barcampbournemouth.org/bar-camp-bournemouth-4/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:03:27 +0000 Luke http://barcampbournemouth.org/?p=113 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 http://bcbomo4.eventbrite.co.uk.

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