First of all, the usual congratulations to the organization and to the
sponsors the lovely lunch and coffee breaks.
Second, this was the first barcamp ever realized in Lisbon, so 30
people out of 78 registered are quite good.
My first notes go to the organization; "stick with the plan" people,
don't try to do new things, follow the rules and let people talk more.
Barcamps in auditoriums are just useless, people can't talk properly,
there's no possibilities to network and no decent mingle. Small rooms,
all plane, with a couple of tables, one sketch board and data show are
enough.
Yesterday, we hold the Barcamp warm up in Lisbon and offered the first
round of booze. As usual, just a few people appeared, so we presume
two things; first, everyone's into water or juice, second, people are
afraid to meet others. We're expecting more, but that's our local
culture and the no startup hubs. Moving on.
*Sessions*
I've arrived one hour late, so I've missed the FireHOL presentation
from Carlos Rodrigues, but I've managed to get all the others, which
weren't that many...
João Rico, Microsoft pansie, gave us one enormous and, unfortunately
to said, somewhat boring about presentation techniques. João, please,
cut your talk to a third!
I proposed three presentations; one about infrequently questions
about prt.sc, another about social experience for newbies and the one
that I've choose and talked about it; Products, Services, Platforms
Here it is: http://paradigma.pt/~vd/files/barcampfct_20080524.pdf
My main purpose was to poke the avid minds in the audience and to
express my doubts and rants. I think that went hell. If you have
questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me. For those who were
expecting to ear about social experience for newbies, well, you should
show up that those off side events and start making friends.
*Half Baked*
Right after lunch, we started with the half backed sessions. I think
that the themes suggested we're fair enough to start some great
companies. We proposed the "Paulo Querido Cartões", one product (that
can be a service and a platform), that sells cards with Paulo Querido
photos within. We demoed the PQ Unicorn and PQ Midget Clown as
examples. Great laugh at the end. The best quote ever was from a guy
that didn't knew PQ but could see potential there :)
Of course, everyone tried to extent their pitch, the organization
should have steady hand on those guys.
*Coffee Breaks*
Luckily my coffee breaks we're always talking to someone, like the
guy from sempapel.net (shameless pub) and other guys that just poked
me for questions.
*Ignite*
Again, I've proposed two talks, delivered one only; "Co-Working in
Lisbon", as seen here:
http://paradigma.pt/~vd/files/barcampfct_coworking_20080524.pdf
Celso didn't have a choice to do his "How would you scale twitter",
unfortunately. Our Private Ruben Fonseca, delivered "Debian Sucks" and
talked about the SSL problems; clean and mean :)
*Problems*
No, "problems" weren't any kind of talk, but rather my vision of what
went wrong:
- The guys from Wizi went all wrong. They showed up late, unprepared
and delivered the worst talk in the day. That was the worst shameless
publicity stunt ever, that of course, failed big time.
- Again, Wizi just killed some ignite talks. If they wanted to speak
about entrepreneurship and investments, they should put their post-it
on the wall, not just dumping bad info.
- Ignite should start right after lunch, to give people rants to talk
about, not at closing event.
All in all, it was an interesting day.
References:
- http://fct.enses.org/barcamp/app/
- http://twemes.com/barcampfct
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