Barcamp Belgium

We’ve had some “localisation” issues to clear out, but now it’s confirmed! Barcamp Brussels will take place in the prestigious SAP Lounge, the same venue as DrupalCON the days before it. Our main sponsor is still Skynet and the date is still Sept 24th!!

Some details:

• speeches are short: 10 minutes of talking, 5 minutes of questions (if any) and 5 minutes of transfer between rooms. This is the “Elevator Pitch” formula!
• all presentations should be IN ENGLISH! We are expecting a more international crowd and that is the language everyone understands.
• there will be 4 separate rooms, so 4 simultaneous tracks. The proposed tracks are listed on the bottom of this post.
• the day starts at 9h on Sunday morning and finishes at 18h. Food and coffee breaks are taken care of. The environment allows for laidback chatting, working on laptops or taking a brief walk outside.

HOW TO PROCEED

If you want to participate:

1. put your name on the Barcamp Brussels attendee list (we’re already around 70 names!)
2. put your 10-minute topic on the Barcamp II topics page
3. prepare your presentation: focus on the important stuff, don’t go in too much detail and practise iot. 10 minutes is really short, and you will be stopped when your time is up, so that we can keep the four simultaneous tracks synchronized.
4. show up and have fun

The proposed tracks are:

DEVELOPERS TRACK

for those who write it

open software development: PHP, Ruby, CMS …

USERS TRACK

for those who use it

user acceptance, crowdsourcing, education

KNOWLEDGE TRACK

for those who plan it

entrepreneurship, information architecture, project implementation, folksonomy

MEDIA TRACK

for those who sell it

viral campaigns, the Flickr/Myspace/Youtube of …

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