BarCampZurich

A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. Anyone can attend, participate, and present. To learn more, go to barcamp.org. This is a non-profit event: Attending is free of charge.

Watch this video to understand what BarCamp is about.

We're expecting 50-100 attendees from all over Switzerland and Europe. The segment of people will likely be skewed towards the tech crowd.

BarCampZurich has taken place on October 28, 2006 at ETH Zurich.

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Thanks, everyone!

BarCampZurich was a success. A total of 99 people attended (measured by the number of badges we had before and after the event). To our knowledge, this was one of the largest BarCamps on the continent to date. Thanks, everyone, for making this happen!

Presentation Slides / Downloads

Speakers/Presenters: Please add a link to your slides here:

There where several people recording the presentations with DV-cams. Please post your videos on this page, too!

1. Douwe Osinga: Artificial Life (link to artificial life projects) Listen to Douwe
2. Dominik Tarolli - Quo Vadis Blogging - Lustiges Hobby oder Geldmaschine
3. Axel Beckert - Shell Quoting verstehen
4. Multilingual Websites by Alex Schroeder
5. Software as a Service (SaaS) / Andreas Von Gunten
6. The One-man Company by Christophe Dessimoz
7. Wissenserwerb und Lernen mit Hypertext und Web-Suchmaschinen / Adrian Heydecker
8. Microformats - Real-world Semantic Web held by Cédric Hüsler
9. Organizing Email Listen to Gabor Cselle
10. Der 30-Minuten-Usability-Test / Peter Hogenkamp
11. AJAX@localhost (pdf) / Harry Fuecks
12. Felix E. Klee: Tag Trade and Paid Learning (HTML, MGP)
13. Nicolas Berg: Key Learnings of Starting Up 8 High-tech Companies
14. The ASP.NET Ajax Framework (pdf), by Sascha P. Corti
15. Listen to Sven Eppert about: How to get Funding from Angel Investors and VCs for your Internet Start-up? on Jens Schroeter's Blog.
16. Listen to Martin Ott about direkt collaboration on Jens Schroeter's Blog.

Blogs / Photos

If you blogged about BarCampZurich, add a link to your content here.

1. Tagged Flickr images: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampzurich & http://flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampzurich2006
2. Tagged Blog's (some more posts on the tags without 2006):
   1. http://planet.blogug.ch/tag/barcampzurich
   2. http://planet.blogug.ch/tag/barcampzurich2006
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/barcampzurich
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/barcampzurich2006
3. BarCampZurich Part I Dominik Tarolli / Der erste Blogeintrag des BarCampZurich "BarCampZurich - Part I"
4. BarCampZurich Part II Dominik Tarolli
5. Next Shell Quoting Talks Axel Beckert
6. techblog.tilllate.com: Geek-Shirt statt Hemd Silvan Mühlemann
7. Cedric Microformat Speech
8. Peter Hogenkamp: BarCampZurich: Meine Praesentation
9. Peter Hogenkamp ueber Wordpress
10. Peter Hogenkamp ueber Timo Hetzel: Podcasting und so
11. BarCampZurich - Thanks for Coming! Gabor Cselle
12. BarCamp Zürich - Annettes Nachlese
13. leo's persönlicher BarCamp Rückblick
14. BarCampZurich - And Swiss are not "bünzlis" Corsin Camichel
15. BarCamp Zurich - Part III (Fleischgewordenes Web 2.0) Dominik Tarolli
16. BarCampZurich Report Remo Uherek
17. BarCamp Zurich - Rückblick Andreas Von Gunten
18. Impressionen vom BarCamp Adrian Heydecker
19. BarCamp Zurich — Resumé Axel Beckert
20. Barcamp Zürich Christopher Laux
21. Encore sous le charme du BarCampZurich Christophe Ducamp (fr)
22. BarCamp Zurich Review David Nydegger
23. Organizing Mail in Second Life? Mein Second Life Weblog
24. BarCampZurich: You can speak at LIFT
25. Web 2.0 Existenzgründer in CH und D als unterkritische Masse! oder was denkt Ihr?

When and Where

Date and Times:

• October 28, 2006 (Saturday), 9:30h - 17:00h (time schedule)

Location:

• ETH Zurich, HG Building, auditoriums HG D5.1, HG D5.2, HG D5.3, HG D7.1, HG D7.2.

These are some of the finest, freshly renovated auditoriums at ETH Zurich, with brand-new audio and visual equipment.

There will be free wireless net access (WLAN).

Maps:

1. Static location map by www.ethz.ch (HG Building is marked red)
2. Interactive map by local.ch
3. Interactive by map.search.ch

Tram stop: "ETH / Universitätsspital", tram lines 6/9/10

ETH Computer Science Anniversary

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On October 28, there will be another event in the same building:

• ETH Computer Science, 25th Anniversary

The event will consist of an exhibition and several talks by ETH researchers. Feel free to wander over from BarCampZurich.

unAgenda

Add your name, affiliation (optional), and your topic (optional) if you want to hold a presentation. You can talk about anything you like.

There will be 30 minute and 45 minute slots for presentations: Slots schedule. Please reserve plenty of time for discussions and questions.

You are free to present in any language you want. English, German, Swiss German, French, Italian? Take your pick.

• Douwe Osinga, Projects / Google Hacks
• Nicolas Berg, Entrepreneur, Key Learnings of Starting Up 8 High-tech Companies
• Dominik Wagner / Martin Ott / Martin Pittenauer, Direct Collaboration / SubEthaEdit
• Gabor Cselle, ETH Zurich, "Organizing Email"
• Alex Schröder, Multilingual Wikis using Oddmuse as an example in order to find new alternatives
• Cédric Hüsler, Microformats download slides as PDF
• Andreas Von Gunten, Software as a Service - A Paradigm Shift in the IT-Industry
• Fabian Siegel, will talk about the effect of caffeine on the human body.
• Christophe Dessimoz, The One-man Company (<- click here to read/edit abstract!)
• Peter Hogenkamp, Der 30-Minuten-Usability-Test für jedermann
• Timo Hetzel, Podcasting / Filme und so / Bits und so / Content Crew
• Christophe Ducamp, BarCampBank seeding.
• Silvio Strübi, Brand Communities und Co - einige Reflektionen
• Sascha P. Corti, Microsoft Switzerland, Exploring "ATLAS" - Microsoft's framework for AJAX style web applications.
• Annette und Olaf Schmitz, WordPress Deutschland, Bloggen mit WordPress.
• Felix E. Klee, Tag Trade and Paid Learning - proposals.
• Pierre Philippe Cormeraie, BarCampBank - Innovation
• Adrian Heydecker, IPMZ Uni Zürich - Wissenserwerb und Lernen mit Hypertext und Web-Suchmaschinen
• Philippe Schoen, BarCampAlsace - Optim'Us - BarCampRhine 2007
• Axel Beckert, ETH Zurich, ISG D-PHYS, probably talking about Shell quoting verstehen in German
• Dominik Tarolli, Quo vadis Blogging - Geldmaschine oder lustiges Hobby?
• Sven Eppert, BrainsToVentures (b-to-v), How to get Funding from Angel Investors and VCs for your Internet Start-up? Download
• Harry Fuecks, "AJAX@localhost" - because that's where it works for me - talk slides available here (pdf)
• Urban Müller could talk about Brainfuck if anyone interested
• (registration closed)

Participants

Enter your name here if you're interesting in speaking, organizing, helping out, or just attending. We'll hand out badges at the reception desk.

You don't have to present, but at least ask questions and be an interactive participant! If you present, you might benefit from some things to remember.

We'll have room for about 100 attendees.

1. Gabor Cselle, attending, organizing, helping out
2. Corsin Camichel, attending, organizing, helping out
3. Fabian Siegel, attending, speaking, helping out
4. Matthias Sala, attending, let's see what I can do
5. Gregoire Japiot, attending, helping out (I don't speak Deutsch...)
6. Markus Egli, attending, helping out
7. Lele, helping out
8. Dominik Grolimund, attending, helping out
9. Christophe Dessimoz, attending, possibly speaking, helping out
10. Alex Schröder, attending, speaking
11. Douwe Osinga, attending, speaking
12. Dominik Wagner, attending, speaking
13. Balint Miklos, attending, having fun
14. Cédric Hüsler, attending, speaking?
15. Remo Uherek, attending, having fun, philosophize, blogging
16. Nicolas Berg, attending, speaking
17. Christian Leu, attending, blogging
18. Sebastian Kippe, attending, blogging, having fun
19. Daniel Dalquen, attending, helping out
20. Andreas Von Gunten, attending, speaking
21. Keno Albrecht, attending
22. Leo Büttiker, attending, helping out (a bit morn time now, stay the hole day)
23. Fabian Bannwart
24. Alexander Rossner, attending, speaking
25. Christopher Laux, attending (speaking?)
26. Harry Fuecks, attending
27. Peter Hogenkamp, attending, blogging, speaking?
28. Michael Böni, attending
29. Carole Hofmann, attending
30. Denis De Mesmaeker, attending
31. Silvan Mühlemann, attending
32. Andre Schraner, attending
33. Christoph Schifferli, attending
34. Timo Hetzel, attending, speaking
35. Christophe Ducamp, attending, speaking
36. Adrian Gauch, attending
37. Christine Stumpf zweitgeist, attending, speaking?
38. Dragica Kahlina , attending, maybe speaking
39. Dylan Devillers, attending, questioning
40. Erik Pöhler, attending, speaking?, saying: may the bots be with you.
41. Till Kleisli, attending, helping out, interact
42. Hans-Georg Gruber und Team, attending
43. Sascha P. Corti, Microsoft Switzerland, attending
44. Sven Eppert, BrainsToVentures (b-to-v), attending, speaking
45. Gürkan Sengün, attending, speaking?
46. Andreas Hollenstein, attending
47. Martin Ott, attending, speaking?
48. Lucas Vogelsang, attending
49. David McCreery, attending
50. Annette Schmitz, attending
51. Olaf Schmitz, attending
52. Felix E. Klee, attending, speaking
53. Pierre Philippe Cormeraie, BarCampBank - Innovation , attending, speaking
54. Yvonne Anne Oswald, attending, helping out
55. Adrian Heydecker, attending, speaking
56. Philippe Schoen, attending, speaking
57. Axel Beckert, attending, speaking
58. Mauro Calderara, attending
59. Silvan Gebhardt, attending
60. Laurent Haug, LIFT Conference, coComment, attending, chilling
61. Andreas Cselle, attending
62. Arthur van Dorp, attending, helping out
63. Florian Walpen, attending
64. Baptiste Pretre, attending
65. Jean-Luc Geering, attending
66. Michael Bumann, attending
67. Michel Lussenburg, attending
68. Myrto Zehnder, attending
69. Dorian Selz, attending
70. Roger Seiler, attending
71. Andreas Hauff, attending
72. Beni Bosshard, attending (maybe)
73. John Mellano, attending, helping out
74. Hong Zhang, attending
75. Peter Ulrich, attending (maybe)
76. Dominik Tarolli, attending, speaking, blogging
77. Frank Duffner, attending
78. Sascha Lorenz, attending
79. Silvio Strübi, attending, speaking?
80. Alfonso Rodriguez, attending (maybe)
81. Jens Schroeter, attending, podcasting
82. Urban Müller, attending
83. Luzius Meisser, attending
84. Patric Mueller, attending
85. Thomas Bütikofer, attending
86. Stephan Eggenberger, attending
87. david haberthür, probably attending
88. Jens Gruschel, attending
89. Christoph Giess, attending
90. Corsin Decurtins, probably attending
91. Kolja Powischer, attending
92. Bernd Bickel, probably attending
93. Thomas Hägi, attending
94. Basil Achermann, attending
95. Charly Wilhelm, attending
96. Reto Ischi, attending
97. Alexander Sulzer, attending
98. Felix Hürlimann, attending
99. Nikhil Bakshi, attending
100. Lina Martensson, attending
101. David Burkardt, attending, having fun
102. Madleina Scheidegger, attending
103. Emanuel Carisch, attending, telling!?
104. Bernhard Seefeld, attending
105. Alexander Bub, attending, helping out
106. Yury Melnichek, attending
107. Sascha Rinaldi, attending
108. Corinne Baltzer, attending
109. David Nydegger, attending
110. Sebastien Lambercy, attending
111. William Lüthi, attending,
112. Mario Iseli, attending
113. (registration closed)

IRC

Join our IRC-channel at irc.freenode.org, channel #barcampzurich.

Travel

The great thing about Zurich is that it's easily reachable by train. The other great thing about Zurich ist that it's one hour away by air from all major European cities. Flights are very affordable during late October if you book early. Some links:

• SBB (Swiss National Railways)
• Swiss (Swiss International Airlines)
• MySwitzerland (for hotel bookings)
• map.search.ch (maps)
• Google Map of Zurich (maps)

Supporting Organisations

Attending BarCamp is free! But we're still looking for sponsors of:

• apero 1 (liquids, snacks) (sponsor found: Google!)
• apero 2 (liquids, snacks) (sponsor found: local.ch!)
• lanyards (supported by Manroof)

We're expecting 50-100 attendees.

Why sponsor?

• Earn the goodwill and attention of many alpha geeks in attendance.
• You'll have your company's name associated with a hip techie event.
• As a sponsor, you'll have your name and logo listed on the event board plus the event wiki, and we'll thank you at the conference.
• You can say a few words at the conference, if you like.

Help Promote BarCampZurich

Help promote BarCampZurich - put a banner or your site or blog! There is a number of designs and sizes to choose from.

http://barcamp.ch/images/Barcamp_zh_banner_220x60_a.gif

Contact

If you have any questions or comments, contact Gabor.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

• Are there rules? This is Switzerland, there are rules for everything! My very own grandmother will ensure that common decency is upheld at all times. No, just kidding, see TheRulesOfBarCamp for the 'rules'.
• Can I help out? Yes of course! We need help in organizing the event (finding a venue, sponsors, and good speakers). At the conference, we'll need people who handle registrations, questions, and guard the T-Shirts. Enter your name under 'Participants'. Also, send an e-mail to Gabor so we have your e-mail addresses.
• Can I present? Of course! Enter your name in the 'unAgenda'. Drop us a line if you have questions.
• Can I present in German? What about Schwyzerdütsch? English? French? Anything is fine. Please note your language choice in the unagenda.
• What can I speak about? Anything! The spirit of BarCamp is that you're free to choose your topic, your language, and presentation style. We're a bit skewed towards the hacker / tech crowd. So far, we've had people ask us whether they can talk about their Web Hacks or the effects of caffeine on humans - of course they can!
• Do I have to bring in my own OHP, Beamer, Flipchart,...? No, we will have projectors, flipcharts and power supplies. All you have to bring is fun, and optionally your laptop, and your video camera, if you like.