Barcamp -Durban

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When?
18 and 19 november. It’s the weekend after the matric exams. We’ll start 10h00.

Where?
Port Natal have offered us their hall. This school has 512k DSL and decent iBurst signal, so bandwidth will not be a problem.

Cost?
Mahala — Free. There’s no cost but a catch; you need to contribute something, ie. a speech or help with something.

A BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference 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. The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19-21, 2005. The concept has since spread from Amsterdam to Mumbai to Vienna. The first South African BarCamp was held in Cape Town during 15-16 July 2006. Its success prompted participants from Durban to start planning a local event, scheduled for November 2006.

A BarCamp is an informal, loosely structured conference (un-conference). Traditionally BarCamps are organised in a short time, with schedules being finalised on the day. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There is no attendance fee, but the Rules of BarCamp encourage everyone to participate in some way. BarCamps bring together experts and newbies alike, business people and students.

Download the PDF (barcampposter-colour.pdf)

Organisers
Edrich De Lange — Contact me on email or Jabber/Gtalk
Ralfe Poisson
Johan Kohler
Someone else would be nice !!

See BarCampDurbanOrganisation for more details

Sponsors
Gerrie Hurter from Voipmagic is sponsoring a Digital Projector.
Colin Alston from Thusa will provide ADSL, cables and Wireless access points from Slipgate Systems.
Warwick Chapman from Thusa is sponsoring the second projector, a coffee maker and our T-shirts
Karl Schurmann from The Schurtek Group is sponsoring 100 A4 glossy colour posters
SkyRove will give each BarCamper 100Mb bandwidth
Maizey’s Plastics Durban have sponsored the material for us to have our banners printed. Special thanks to Marius and Wayne on that one.
Mail me if you know of more sponsors

What We Need
Freedom Toaster (it would be fairly nice to have it there)
Coffee Sponsor — I won’t tolerate plastic coffee, so I think we should pitch in and buy some real coffee and say it’s on the house. I can get the coffee at R65/Kg
Food Sponsor. I would like it if we could have some nice foods available, for lunch. Ideas?
A Tuckshop volunteer, someone to do all the sales
A laptop for presenters to use
Cash (for odds and ends)
5-odd Blank Mini-dv tapes
Lanyards
Advertising (mascots, media exposure)
Celebrity speaker
Map to the venue (see the schools website)
Bottled water
Anything else we would like?

DVD / Video
I am going to try and organize a DVD of all the talks at BarCampDurban and offer it at a minimal fee of R25. Just leave your mailing address and cash and I will have it mailed to you asap. If you would be interested in such a disk, add your name below.

Edd

Venues
Yossi’s in Davenport Rd might be nice for supper/lunch? It is a chilled, neat venue close to Port Natal and have/will have wifi. Management has tentatively also offered free coffee to all Bar Camp attendants.

Talks
Python on Series 60 (Johan Kohler)
Asterisk Open-Source PBX ( Gerrie Hurter ) (repeat the home-automation talk too?)
The Inferno operating system (Ralph Moritz)
IRC server<->server protocols and related interesting stuff (Kieron Thwaites)
Open Source in Business and the Business of Open Source by Karl of OSM and The Schurtek Group
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4,Open Document Format,Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (Craig A. Adams)
Perl, possibly FreeBSD (Jonathan McKeown)
Howto make a “Walltop” [Alasdair McCall]
add what you are available to talk about

Who’s Talking About Us?
* Max Kaizen
* Johan Kohler
* Rafiq Phillips
* The ZA Show Podcast
* Mike Stopforth
* IOLTechnology
* Open Source Magazine
* Marketing Geek, Beach, Niche & Speech

Flights
People could probably arrange block flight tickets and save some cash on them. Please note: A bus trip from Cape Town is not a wise choice if you do it on the cheapest liner, as it takes a very uncomfortable 24 hours. (This public service announcement brought to you by Ralph.)

Lifts from JHB to DBN
Karl Schurmann from The Schurtek Group will be in Johannesburg from the 10th to the 17th. Anyone needing a lift to Durban from Johannesburg or anywhere along the route… please phone Karl on 072 5 666 101 to make arrangements…. he’s not asking for any major money… maybe R100-R200 towards petrol and Tolls, and some good converstation… unfortunately he can’t take you back, but at least your trip one way is cheaper and more comfortable than the bus… and a bang load cheaper than flying… Mango is advertising dirt cheap flights… the advertised prices only apply to the first 5 or 10 seats. Try it out and see… Fly Mango

People Needing accomodation
I will be seeing if the school’s hostel would accommodate you, otherwise we could just use sleeping bags and sleep in the hall.

You?
Please if you talk about us, use the Tag, BarCampDurban

invitation email
1st Rule of Bar Camp: You do talk about BarCamp.
2nd Rule of Bar Camp: You do blog about BarCamp.

When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers.
When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.

We hope you will consider participating in BarCampDurban. For more
information, refer to the following:
http://barcamp.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_camp
http://barcamp.org/BarCampDurban
http://barcamp.org/BarCampJohannesburg
http://barcamp.org/BarCampCapeTown

Barcamp -Durban