Welcome to BazCamp

 

This is a camp for Mad Science.  This was very heavily inspired by BazCampLA

 

 

BazCampYVR: "What?"

 

BazCampYVR is a demo-centric shameless rip-off of BazCampLA -- we're do-ers not talkers.  BazCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for deeply technical people to share and learn in a "social media"-free environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants, conducted largely in unintelligible jargon.  If you are temped to speak about the "branding and marketing" of anything, may we direct you towards your friendly neighborhood BarCamp?

 

You are encouraged to attend BazCampYVR with a Demo.

 

What are examples of deeply technical topics?

• Robotics
• Hardware hacking/arduinos
• Direct brain interfacing
• Reverse Engineering / assembly language hacking
• Security Research
• Home-brew biology
• Focusing on "implementation" as opposed to "usage" or "impact"

 

What is a Demo?

A Demo is:

• a piece of software
• an article of electronics
• an ingenious mechanism
• a bottle of biology
• anything else that is its own best visual aid

 

BazCampYVR: "Why?"

 

As BarCamp grows larger and more successful, it necessarily attracts a wider audience.  It has been my recent experience that presentations that don't have a business aspect to them have become the minority.  Furthermore, presentations that incorporate a working demo, almost working demo, or a panicked "live-coding" presenter are the most fun and compelling.  BazCamp seeks to distill this increasingly dilute DIY/Technical component of BarCamp that is almost non-existant. 

 

 

BazCampYVR: "Who?"

 

I'm totally there!

• lukec
• goldfish
• joeb
• afreak
• JamesG
• unconed
• John
• Jack

 

I will try:

• ooze
• gregor
• robbat2
• dooq
• kevinj
• gregeh

 

I wish, but send my love:

• you?
• counti8
• rantenki

  

BazCampYVR: "When?"

 

Date: Saturday, Nov 7. 

 

Dinner with new hacker friends! 6pm - 8pm

 

Super Happy Hacker House starts at 8pm! https://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php?id=shhh_-_november_7th_2009

 

BazCampYVR: "Where?"

 

The Vancouver Hacker Space. 

 

Here is a map and video of how to get here: https://vancouver.hackspace.ca/doku.php?id=map

 

 

BazCampYVR: "How Much?"

 

Unlike BarCamp, we are not going to have shirts unless they're going to be silkscreened, therefore we kept our costs down so that people can attend for free.  If you are planning to do a (Hands-On)  workshop at BazCamp, or participate we expect you to either buy a kit from us, have a kit before you arrive, or pair up for a kit.  This will be a Free/No One Turned Away event with donations encouraged.

 

Schedule

• 11AM - Untitled, a short talk about guitars by Goldfish, yo!
• 11:30AM - Interactive fiction in Shoes/Ruby via Fashion Quest - DJ Mike Cantelon

http://github.com/mcantelon/fashion-quest

• 12:15 - 1:30PM - Lunch
• 1 - 1:30PM - Scanbuy's EZ Code - Colin (afreak)
• 1:30 - 2:15 PM - Collaborative Web Games (Zeitgeist) - Lukec
• 2:15 - 3:00 - Interferometry on the desktop - JamesG
• 3:15 - 4:00 - Making Worlds: Procedural Planet Generation - unconed
• 4:00 - 4:45 - Fun with MicroControllers - JoeB
• 4:45 - 5:30 - RFID & Embedded Linux Toys - Robbat
• 5:30 - 6 - Cybercraft - the tech & biz of trill adventure VR simulation theatres - John S
•                www.cybercraft.ca
• 6:00 - 8:00 Dinner
• 8:00 - 3:00AM - Super Happy Hacker House #4

 

Talk Ideas

 

Session Length talk ideas/proposals:

 

• Dene Language Hacking (Unicode and the Atomic Bomb) - Mike West

 

 

SHHH: Late Night Micro-Lightning Talks (2 minutes Shaaaarp!) proposals:

• Measuring Biological Processes at VHS - lukec
• Goldfish Presents: "An Evening With Goldfish, Yo"
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