Seamus and I presented a little about what we were doing at BarCamp Vancouver and we had a great time. Many kudos to the people that made BarCamp such a success.
One of the sessions I attended was by Jordan Behan and Joe Solomon: “Marketers For A Cause“. After a lightening exercise in guerilla democracy we selected three causes to brainstorm around. Of these I was most moved by Megan Cole’s pitch for Hands Up For Africa - read more about the inspiring story here. BarCamp sessions are short and by the time we were all in a circle talking ideas we had about 12 minutes left to brainstorm. I was very impressed by the number of ideas and the breadth of knowledge that was in the room. One small part of what emerged was a better way to donate, below is the widget. It’s great to see the Web being leveraged for social good.
Ok, on to more traditional subject matters…
Seamus’s and my presentation went very well. We wanted lots of input from the other people attending the session and we were not disappointed. Semantic Web is a hot topic and there were lots of ideas.
We met some fascinating people. Jim Pick was there to talk about rdfvancouver.org and building a Vancouver-based community around Semantic Web, David Orchard was there - super smart guy, Steve Dickinson came up from New Zealand with some really compelling visualisation technology developed by his company, Centruflow. Peter Van Garderen made some of the most salient and insightful points of the entire RDF portion of BarCamp, what a pleasure to have him in the room.
This is only a fraction of the people we met of course but I couldn’t list everyone if I wanted to. All very positive stuff. Thanks everyone!
I’ve posted a few links relevant to the session at:
http://barcamp.org/barcampvancouver2008-media_reuse_and_the_semantic_web
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