We had another organizers meeting this morning for BarCamp Ottawa. The event seems to be coming together very well. It’s looking like it will be a great event.
The agenda, of course, will be very loose, as is generally the case with BarCamp events. We will be getting together Friday night for a beer, just to meet the other attendees and loosen up a little. Saturday, at Bitheads, we’ll have up to three tracks of conversations. Lunch will be served, coffee provided in the morning, and anything else anyone brings will be available for snacks.
The next couple of weeks we’re going to be encouraging folks to start signing up to lead sessions. I’ve already committed to lead one session on what makes a good demo, and another on when and how to use open source in your business. If you’d like to lead a session, then please whip over to the wiki, and let us know.
And lastly, we’ve made 75 t-shirts, which will be given out to the first 75 attendees. Session leaders have priority over others, though. There may be other good swag too!
I’m looking forward to seeing people there.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
