BarCamp London 9 has been and gone, and it was another great event made possible from the sponsorship of globaldev (alright, other sponsors may have helped out too…) This year we had a total of 6 members of the team attend; here’s a little run-down of the day from one of them.
After the fantastic success of last year’s BarCamp London, it didn’t take us long to decide to sponsor this year’s event too! With our love of a good time, it was a fairly obvious decision to take on sponsorship of the Saturday night party…
The 19th monthly Reading Geek Night once again raised the bar in terms of the mixture of topics covered: an introduction to hacker spaces, the return of development-oriented talks with a discussion on CouchDB, and a long list of considerations to take into account if you’re planning on cheating on your partner.
Another mixed bag of topics in the April Reading Geek Night: this month covered technology in art at South Hill Park, successfully branching an commercial product and creating an open source one from it, and a history of mobile, from horse-drawn versions right up to modern smart phones.
The most recent Reading Geek Night contained an eclectic (as always!) mix of talks, covering open-source courseware, building custom book apps for the iPad, and an intriguing list of "things you didn’t know about wool…"
After a January hiatus due to holidays, honeymoons and some other less-worthy excuses, the globaldev team returned to the 16th Reading Geek Night. This month’s presentations included trying to understand the differences between developers and managers, discussions on a #rdggeek Hack Day, and a webcam running on a BBC Master.
The festive and final Reading Geek Night of 2010 saw two more excellent talks: A Self-Help Manual For Cyborgs by Simon Bostock, and Hacking Kinect by Chris Alexander.
This months Reading Geek Night went from the importance of scalability, photos of space taken from a weather balloon, to 2 electronic boffins coding to their hearts content to show it is possible to get hardware and software to play …
At globaldev we are huge proponents of giving back to the the community, and as strong believers in putting our money where our mouth is, Global Personals have decided to sponsor this year’s BarCamp London.
A year on and going stronger than ever, this month saw the first birthday of Reading Geek Night celebrated with videoless video games, a geek-tastic quiz, and the audience in 3D.