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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 (364 days ago) news | 3 comments

With just two one day to go until BarCampBrighton4, here’s everything you need to know…

Registration opens at 10am. Welcome is 11am-12pm. First sessions begin at 12pm. Venue is The Old Music Library, right opposite the Brighton Dome. We finish around 6pm on Sunday.

Yes, we’re overnighting!

So bring sleeping bags, bean bags, inflatable mattresses, bed rolls, tent inners, etc. Those wooden floors are pretty hard and you’ll be cold and uncomfortable otherwise. There’s loads of room, so go crazy!

Don’t forget

As well as a sleeping bag and something comfy to sleep on (did I mention how uncomfortable and cold the floorboards are?) you’ll want to bring; your laptop and its power adaptor. Probably a 4-way (or moreway) powerblock and a VGA adaptor to connect your laptop to our projectors and screens. Please don’t just hope someone else will bring one along – there are at least four different kinds of Apple mini-DVI to VGA now, so the likelihood is that the one that someone else has, won’t fit your laptop.

Not only but also

So sleeping bag? Check! Something comfy like a bedroll or beanbag or inflatable mattress or lilo to sleep on? Check! Perhaps the pop-up inner of a tent? Check! Laptop, power adaptor, 4-way power block, VGA connector? Check! That just leaves your talk. Or discussion. Or other scheduled participatory form of interaction with our attendees.

As the ‘Mericans put it, “No tourists!”. Everyone attending BarCamp is expected to do a 30 minute slot about absolutely anything you find interesting, and think others might too.

We’ve had talks on architecture, robot building, social hacking, rock climbing, tea making and many, many other topics. Go crazy! Have a look at previous BarCampBrighton talks to see what kinds of thing people do. Remember, it doesn’t have to be 30 mins of you talking about slides. The best talks are often discussions or roundtables or demos. Find out more about the BarCamp ethos and what the grid’s all about.

CreditCrunchCamp

We’ll feed you pizza and some beer on Saturday night, provide tea, coffee & squash plus a few biscuits throughout Saturday and Sunday. There’ll also be a small breakfast on Sunday morning (juice and fruit-bars) but you’ll want to bring some cash to get breakfast & lunch on Saturday as well as lunch on Sunday. Unless that is, a lovely last-minute sponsor wants to grab the glory of feeding some geeks.

Re-use. Recycle

It’s turned into a bit of a theme, so we’ll be having a free-cycle/swap-shop/gifting table.

Got some tech you don’t want? Got design or tech books that are no longer of use? Got 15 mini-jack to phono leads and think you could probably live with a few less? Bring them along! Give them away! I bet someone could use them…

Leave a comment below with stuff you want to give away and/or stuff you need, and we’ll hook you up.

100 Robots

Brighton’s very own 100 Robots will be playing live on Saturday night, after the sessions finish. Are you in a band and want to play? Drop us a line.

Stick it on!

After the 100 Robots gig, we’ll be running a “Stick It On! Spotify” session. Put 3 tracks from Spotify into a shared playlist and email us the URL. We’ll blow 99p on a 24 hour pass for advert-free choon!s.

Parking

You won’t be able to park your car in the city centre for 48 hours. There are some NCPs, but they’ll be expensive. The station car-park is also quite pricey for 24 hours (not sure if they do a 48hr tariff). Most of central Brighton is residents-only parking. If you’re driving to Brighton, you might want to park in the Preston Park/Surrendon Road/Preston Drove area, which is restriction-free and get a bus ride in (£1.80 single fare). Catch the 5B into town from outside the Park View. There’s space for a couple of motor-bikes to park at the venue. You do so entirely at your own risk.

Backscatter

At some point by Saturday, there’ll be a BarCampBrighton lifestream (http://barcampbrighton/stream). We’ll search Twitter for barcampbrighton, and look at anything tagged on Delicious, Technorati and Flickr with barcampbrighton, barcampbrighton4 or bcb4 and aggregate it all. Let us know if we should be looking elsewhere too.

Da grid

Here’s the schedule for Saturday and Sunday. It’s pretty empty at the moment, but subscribe to the iCal and we’ll keep it updated from the board (which will remain the canonical reference). The board will be open from 10am onwards, so get here early to take your pick of the times! First talks start at 12pm on Saturday afternoon.

Happy happy joy joy

Hey, don’t stress! BarCamps are fun! They’re social! You’ll meet a whole raft of interesting people and hear a lot of really great talks. The central prop of any BarCamp is the social interaction; so don’t worry about your talk not being polished enough, or that you don’t necessarily know anyone. We promise that by Sunday you’ll know loads of people, will have made some great new contacts and you’ll really be kicking yourself that you didn’t lynch that villager when you had the chance.

1 Comments For This Post

  1. daveph (September 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 pm)

    I have a couple of boxes of random redundant tech (probably only fit for parts) that can go on the table – anything anyone doesn’t want can got to the BuildBrighton parts bucket…

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