Full House at the Saskatoon BarCamp 2008
Photo by shareski
The Saskatoon Barcamp 2008 was held at the Cellar in the basement of the Senator. Lots of great presenters and tons of attendees - the opened up registration to an extra 20 people bringing the total to 120. It was a neat mix of people and great to see the event really grow from last year.
I ended up giving a couple of talks (I volunteered 2 topics on the wiki thinking that one might get picked but both did). Unfortunately I had to leave at 8, so I only heard one other talk but it was great -- on developing with Google Apps. I'm glad that at the Geek Girls dinner I had a chance to hear about Agile Development Point 2 style so I had a bit of head start on Barcamp plus I'm up on twitter. Follow me on Twitter. Wishing I could have heard more talks.
I presented one talk -- "How Social is Your Web Site?" and looked at ways to make your site more social as well as some of the ups and downs of being social. I used Google Presentation to write this on the fly during the previous presentation. View it online.
I also was going to give a talk on Data Visualization. I was feeling pretty happy that this was written and posted on slideshare. First my laptop had a hiccup. Rebooted, new hiccup. Then someone lent me a laptop (hurrah). Then slideshare was dead on the server side and I didn't have a copy locally. Yikes. Oh well, I winged it using a few rough slides and my furl bookmarks.
I didn't get to show as many things as I liked so I posted to some extra links to BarCamp Saskatoon social network site on Ning, plus a link to the presentation on slideshare which works now :-) that I was going to take key slides from.
Here are the links to the sites mentioned in the presentation.
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