BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

BarCampChristchurch will be the first BarCamp held in New Zealand, which is a bit unfair to the people who've been organising BarCampWellingtonNZegov for a lot longer, but the gap is there in the schedule for the location and for a bunch of us thinking about it, and we might as well do it earlier rather than later.

When

Friday 7th Sep.

Where

Canterbury Innovation Incubator
200 Armagh St, Christchurch, New Zealand
Google Map

Where to stay?

It's only a one day event, but let us know if you're coming from out of town and we'll probably be able to tee something up.

Online Group

Hang out in the BarCamp Christchurch Online Group, before, during and after the event.

A channel for those who are getting there later

Sponsors

WiFi - Interclue, or maybe Cheap Hot Spots

Venue - Canterbury Innovation Incubator
Coffee & Tea - CII
Lunch - The gathered masses are buying Pizza
Beverages - Anyone bringing us Beer will get mucho kudos.

Participants

Seth Wagoner - Interclue 
Stephen Viles -- happy to deliver my "Weirdness as a Testing Tool" presentation, as seen at Kiwi Foo and CantyJUG
Ben Kepes
Nick Bolton - Mobile Data Now
Marek Kuziel - Encode
Jonathan Hunt - Hunt Design
Dave Lane - Egressive (happy to talk about Egressive's OSS activities and some of the stuff that the Effusion Group is doing, too.)
Julian Carver
Dan Randow, Michael JasonSmith and Alice Murphy - OnlineGroups.Net (happy to do 30mins including questions on GroupServer)
Joel Pitt - PhD student @ Lincoln Bio-protection CoRE.
Philip Lindsay
Chris Blair - Zodal 
Phillip Pearson (sorry, too much work to do)
SLI Systems - Andrew Grieve, Adam Freeman and Marcus Liddle
Gold
Adrian - UMC Advertising
Bevan Rudge (Change of plans, can't make it)
Isaac Devine Wowza
Morris Johns Enfinit Software
Paul Wilkins
Zane Gilmore NZS
Ben Warren
Anna Spray
Cameron Priest
Terry Weaver - Project eest Email: terry dot g dot weaver at gmail dot com
Bruce Muschamp
Matt Powell - LeftClick Ltd
Justin Soong JustCreations
James Ashford AdSpot
Andrew Groom and / or Branton Kenton-Dau from VortexDNA
John Carter from Tait Electronics
Roger Bays - Art and Augmented Reality Technology Roger Bays Visual Artist
Eric Woods Imaginality MindSpace Solutions MindSpace Art

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Schedule

Updated: We're running one stream, and here is the current speaking order

• Morning

|Matt PowellLeftClick LtdAre you developing back-to-front? wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet

• Lunch

• Dinner / Evening

Who's blogging about it?

Seth Wagoner
Marek Kuziel
Ben Kepes
Joel Pitt
Philip Lindsay

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Proposed Sessions

How to run a great unconference session
10 tips for making the most of BarCamp

Topics some participants are thinking about covering

Ben Kepes on SaaS
Joel Pitt on the Singularity and Transhumanism
Joel Pitt on Simulating the spread of invasive species in GIS
Dave from Egressive happy to talk about Egressive's OSS activities
Phil Pearson on PeopleAggregator and/or Distributed Social Networks
Raf from Sustento about the Web's ability to enable societal change
Seth from Interclue, on Blog Widgets and Browser Addons
Stephen Viles could deliver "Weirdness as a Testing Tool" (as seen at Kiwi Foo and CantyJUG) or talk about running a dev shop in Chch for a New York financial SaaS provider
Philip Lindsay could talk a little about Arduino or my experience with using a personal wiki as a lab notebook but he'd rather hear about everyone else's cool hardware toys and hacking.
John Carter could talk on Ruby, What is Linux, building/using gcc crosscompilers, Design by Contract and State Space, why I'm hopeful/excited about OpenMoko, tell me what interests you.
Eric Woods is interested in PC productivity tips - getting things done faster and easier, so you could all come and share your tips. It think Eric has a couple too.
Eric has also been on an exhaustive search for the ideal PDA / do it all handheld device recently. His conclusion - the best is only NZ$300 and a couple of years old...

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Topics we'd like to hear about and/or people we'd like to hear from

Someone from Leftclick about increasing Conversion Rates (suggested by: Seth)
Someone from e-agent about Cheap-Hotspots.com (suggested by: Seth)
Something from Eurekster about Swickis, or Widget Development in general (suggested by: Seth)
Someone from SLI about Custom Search Engines (suggested by: Seth)
Mark Rocket on what's up with his new Rocket Lab (suggested by: Seth)
Someone from CII to talk about CII and/or Powerhouse (suggested by: Seth)
Someone from Ecobob on sustainable housing (suggested by: Seth)
Somone from the HIT Lab about what they're up to over there (suggested by: Seth)
Someone on the new SuperComputer project at Canterbury (suggested by: Seth)
Someone from the Software Cluster on what they're doing for Web Companies (suggested by: Seth)
John Hamilton from CDC (suggested by: Ben?)
Phillip Ridge from ConnectNZ (suggested by: Ben?)
We should have a Planning/Brainstorming Session for BarCampChristchurch2, which should perhaps be over a weekend so we can attract a few more people from the rest of the country.

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Planners

Seth Wagoner (ph +64-21-784409, sethATinterclueDOTcom)
Ben Kepes (ph =64-21-2384136, benkepesATgmailDOTcom)
Stephen Viles

Volunteers

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Task List

(please cross out when it's done)

Tech

Wifi Via Interclue's pfSense box, throttled after first 100megs per user
Projector 1 (CII has an oldish one)
Projector 2 (if we do two streams...) (Can bring our spare one, the light is not strong for it but it still works)
Photo (Can bring my digital camera - Marek Kuziel)
Video (Can bring my video camera & tripod for making video/audio recordings of every talk - Marek Kuziel)
Audio
Streaming or Stickam or Skype
I have a 40 inch LCD if needed (Nick Bolton)

Non-tech

Whiteboards
T-shirts?
Badges (I'll make KiwiFoo-style around the-neck badges - Stephen Viles)
Lunch
Coffee/Tea
Tables and chairs

Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.

Please use the tag barcampchristchurch for content related to this event

Links of note:

http://planet.nztech.org - sign up and add your blog
http://groups.google.com/group/tvic - come to our monthly dinner
Talk to Terry about is WifiMesh project: terry.g.weaver AT gmail DOT com