BarCamp Rochester 5

Results from Follow Up Survey

Several of the hosts met up today to look over the results from the survey we sent out earlier this week to all attendees from this year. Here are some of the results mixed in with our own thoughts. Feel free to send us a message on any more thoughts you may have.

New shirts
Enforce 1/2hr talks
Have printed placards / signs / 8.5”x11” sheets pre-printed with every talk we already know about
Have blanks for #3
Make talk time/placement a matter of putting your sheet up on the wall
- Maybe have 2 prints of each presentation, one goes on the big board, one goes outside the room after scheduling
For the website, make a test site. Never edit code on the live site again.
Mass mailings should never come from “root”
Tech wise, the more the organization/website/tech looks like we’re a bunch of hobbyists, the lower attendance / donations we’ll get.
Donation assumptions, if we take that route which we think we should:
- DBA / Incorporate
- Tax ID
- Checking account
- Paypal account, etc… donations@barcamproc.org
Swag give away: Not a lot of stuff, very noisy, no on stopped talking, people were not all present
- Make swag give away a part of the presentations
- It could be a sticker, or a book, but probably relevant to the talk
- Swag for helping clean up!
Barriers
- Self hosting
- Well defined meeting times for hosts
- Get people outside of csh
Skill levels
- Maybe “intro” level talks are tagged, everything else is a free-for-all
- Emphasize that BarCamp is not just about tech
- BarCamp is my 20 minute presentation about how much I love ________.
- Ok I know that’s awful
No start of day intros, except by the hosts
- Ask for volunteers for stuff at the beginning of the day
- Make personal introductions a part of your presentation
- Maybe a raise hands survey of what you already know about the presentation topic
I think the hosts need a schedule
- Who is sitting at the sign-in table
- Who is in the hall answering questions
- Maybe we need different color shirts?
Figure out how to let people ask/offer to give their talk AGAIN
Track presentation times online somehow
Medium sized redesign of our website? Or does some other local BarCamp group have better software?
Better name tags. e-mail / twitter / facebook / whatever
Use cotweet for @barcamproc
Strive to stream 2 rooms of talks for the next event
- We need at least 1 more person to help with that, and equipment

My presentation for BarCampRoc. A little something I slapped together in about half an hour to show off what I had learned about ClearType and how it can look really cool. If you get a minute of enjoyment out of this and appreciate how font smoothing works, I’m happy.

BarCamp Rochester 5 Follow-Up

Hey Everybody,

We hope you all had a good time last month at BarCamp Rochester 5. We are happy to announce that we are expanding to two events next year. So make sure to keep October 23rd, 2010 open for our first BarCamp Rochester Fall event.

We had a couple of items that we wanted to let you guys know about while everything is still fresh in your minds…

1) We are currently looking for suggestions and feedback about the event as we plan for the fall event. Check out http://mmi.bcrspring2010.sgizmo.com and give us your ideas.

2) If you missed any of the presentations that took place in the auditorium, we have them posted online at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rochester-barcamp .

3) As several of our hosts are graduating this year, we are looking for a few more people to help organize the event. Send us an email if you are interested.

4) If you wrote a blog entry or have any pictures from this year, please send us the link and we will post it on our site.

5) If you want us to promote any Rochester events or meet ups, send us a message.

6) Thank you to our sponsors who helped make this event happen: RIT Department of Computer Science, RIT Interactive Learning Grant, Computer Science House, OS-Cubed, Microsoft, O’Reilly, Apress, RIT Kate Gleason College of Engineering, Millennium Printing & Graphics, Interlock Rochester, Metrix Matrix, and Yahoo Developers.

We’re glad everyone was able to make it and we can’t wait to see you all again next year. Follow @barcamproch on twitter or check out our blog at blog.barcamproc.org for information about other similar events going on in the region during the year.

If you have any questions or other comments that you want to let us know directly feel free to contact hosts@barcamproc.org.

Thanks a lot!

Dan Schneiderman
Mike Dumont
David Brenner
Sela Davis
Sean McGary
Chris Horn

Barcamp Rochester 5 Videos

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you all know if you were not aware, the video footage from this past Barcamp can be found here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rochester-barcamp.

Also, stay tuned, we’ve got some stuff cookin’ for this fall!!