Barcamp Brussels #4 is coming closer: Saturday Dec 1st is 10 days away. Our main sponsor is MSN/Windows Live.
If you’re not already on the attendee list (we’re around 70 now), please hurry, we have to close that list on Monday to fix the right quantities for catering.
Some last remarks:
- As usual, we start at 9AM, we stop at 6PM.
- Parking is no problem, we can use the mVillage parking that’s empty anyway, since it’s a Saturday.
- Who wants to record videos? Out of experience I can only say I cannot do it myself, nor can I make them ready afterwards for Youtube/GVideo. So I need 3-5 people taking care of that.
- Anyone doing anything with photography, like the previous time?
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I’m getting a little nervous. Barcamp Brussels is gonna happen on Nov 24th or Dec 1st and I still haven’t found a location. All my options have returned negative. The previous times I never really had a problem with that.
So I’m gonna put the question out there: who knows a nice location for Barcamp Brussels #4? If possible, I would actually like it to be hosted at someone’s offices, since it’s on a Saturday anyway …
- In Brussels (not just the center, let’s take Brussel/Halle/Vilvoorde)
- I expect around 100 attendees
- we need 3-4 presentation rooms of 20-30 persons each
- a hall or lounge with seats and coffee would be nice
- catering on-site or otherwise a neighbourhood with restaurants at walking distance
- available Wifi would be handy - or we can set that up ourselves
- preferably easy to reach by public transport, or with sufficient parking
- if the location costs more than, say, 2000€, it’s not an option.
- I tried a lot of socio-cultural venues (KVS, BSB, DeBuren, BTCCTB …) , but the moment I mention ‘Internet’ they say ‘no’. So I gave up on those.
- none of the locations of the previous events
Suggestions welcome via mail or comment!
Saturday 20 May
Like M.A.R.R.S. said: “Countdown is progressive“. Ten days from now we’ll be frantically preparing the International Press Center for Barcamp Brussels. This is the progress report:
- We have found some very helpful sponsors (including Skynet) to help us with catering and equipment.
- Everything will be recorded and made available afterwards. Ine will be coordinating the audio/video podcast efforts.
- We have just jumped above 40 attendees on the Barcamp attendee list. Fifty would be an even nicer number. If you still know other people that could be interested to attend, just ask them! (more details on the concept here!)
Checklist
If you want to attend, this is what you should do:
- add your name to the attendee list
- add your topic/speech/demo to the topic list
- prepare your topic (Powerpoint, web demo, panel discussion)
- show up on Saturday May 20th!
So there it is: after some feedback on my Barcamp announcement post, we fixed the date and location for Barcamp Brussels!
DETAILS
- Saturday May 20th 2006 (breakfast at 9am, presentations start at 10h and end around 18h)
- International Presscenter (Résidence Palace)
(although: dress code casual - no suits 
)
- All presentations can be put on the presentation board upon arrival. There will be 3 to 4 presentation rooms for simultaneous topics.
- there will be free Wifi, food, drinks and lots of hi-tech around.
One remark: although this might seem to be a geek-event par excellence, this is not for-geeks-only. There will be technical presentations, granted, but we also expect interesting talks about social, psychological and esthetic topics. You do not need programming skills or an engineering degree, just a vivid interest in modern society. You’re interested in the etymology of smilies, the effect of gaming on ADHD, the psychological implications of serif and sans-serif fonts? There’s a topic for your presentation!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Everyone who wants to help out for the practical organisation (mostly the week before) can drop me a line or tell me through the Yahoo group. I already want to thank Bart for helping us out with the venue and hope we can welcome a whole bunch of you on May 20th!
Last year we organised a fairly successfull blogger’s dinner in Brussels, and now we’re gonna try something different:
next May we will have a Barcamp Brussels event.
WHAT IS A BARCAMP?
(photo by miss_rogue)
Barcamp was first organised in LA by Chris Messina and some buddies.
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.
It is not your regular conference:
- No spectators, only participants: Attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one. All presentions are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall.
- No fixed agenda: talks, demos and topics are proposed by the attendees when they arrive on a central whiteboard.
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