Comments on: London Barcamp 7

By: Barcamp. London. Seven. « The lost outpost

Barcamp. London. Seven. « The lost outpost — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:28:05 +0000

[...] and Ben also have some nice write-ups, and the Flickr group of photos is filling out nicely. Thanks to [...]

By: JGJones

JGJones — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:33 +0000

Ben – DeafCamp as you put it – will it succeed…well…I’m not so sure about that because as you mention it…”Caveat: Barcamps that are run for non-technical people I suspect won’t do just as well. The fact that Barcamp London 7 was full of savvy, very smart technical campers, as this post I hope has illustrated, helped.”

So if there’s a DeafCamp – you’ll need plenty of smart technical people that’s able to follow a wiki, twitter and all that to make a BarCamp a success – but if it’s going to be done – then believe me I’ll love to be a part of it and would help out too.

I’m yet to attend a BarCamp myself though so I might as well be very wrong there – I remember hearing about it from Alison when she went with Jen, and how awesome it was for them and now from you – am jealous

By: MM

MM — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:59:13 +0000

Is there an interpreter in the house lol…………… no wonder deaf can’t be ars*d Ben…..

By: Piers Kittel

Piers Kittel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:56:27 +0000

Impressive! Wish I was there!

By: BarCamp London 7 #bcl7 | Semblance

BarCamp London 7 #bcl7 | Semblance — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:38:28 +0000

[...] 7 was my first unconference and my excitement beforehand turns out to be not for nothing. Also read Ben Fletcher’s more in depth experience about this [...]

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:36:11 +0000

Glad you had a great time, and I can prehaps relate to what you’re blogging about. I came away from the Leeds Barcamp feeling so inspired. But your elaboration of unconference, I found interesting.

Your comments re no terps on Saturday, is interesting and perhaps geeks are so much more creative how they participate that inclusion naturally happens? I guess its an example of social software in action, on another level.

Thanks for allowing me to participate remotely via Etherpad (that purple graffiti I’m afraid is me). There needs to be a strong creative focus, with who you invite for the first Deaf Barcamp, that way it builds a solid foundation for the future.

By: Cristiano Betta

Cristiano Betta — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:15:48 +0000

Hey Ben, I’m really glad you enjoyed yourself on both days. I want to point out that most of the things you described weren’t actually organized by us. The backchannels were just set up because they solved a problem that “we” (the community, and that includes you) had. This is a great example of how unconferences work: if you think something’s wrong take your own 2 feet and 2 hands and fix it.

I love your idea of a DeafCamp, I would love to attend it even though I’m not capable of any BSL. Let me know if you want us to bring you in contact with any of our sponsors.

Finally: the poster in the photo above only shows half of the sponsors, we had an awful lot of them this time and we were not really running on a shoe-string budget (unfortunately, as I wish we could have). I hope it doesn’t stop you from not organising your own camps and seeing you at any future events.