Barcamp Brussels 3
The 3rd Barcamp Brussels is over, I was a bit dissapointed over the target audience of the first Barcamp, missed the second one, but the 3rd one was right where I expected it to be
A healthy mix of technology, startup projects and the social aspect of technology.
I took my Tuxdroid with me, planned on having him tell the audience what they were twittering about, the idea was to take the logfile of my twitter jabber session and feed that to the text to speech deamon into Tux. I failed due to the lack of network hence incoming twitter stream, however the Tuxdroid proudly whacked its wings at the end of each talk :)
So about those talks :)
After Peter gave the startshot for the fight for a slot to talk I went to see the talk about gegis by Dirk Frigne.
I totally didn't know there was an OpenSource project written for the Belgian governement which was into Gis .. cool stuff to see.
Frank then was next with his talk about OpenID, I really should spend time with openid, hmm.. I kind of think I`m repeating myselve :)
Then Bernard continued with his talk on Performance of webb applications which off course included a large part about Databases..
I need to delete lots of stuff from my presentation :)
John introduced us to NotSoso, now if only I could find some spare minutes to actually look into NotSoso, I guess that that will be for later this week, or even after the weekend.
Then we had a 2 hour break for lunch and a groupfoto by Steven
Maarten did a talk about the Blogoloog and how he started out with an old Laptop with Fedora Core and now evolved into something more suitable , and Peter explained us about Belgian Tax Law .
Then some people found me interresting enough to come and listen to my talk about MySQL Cluster, I actually had taken the talk I had been preparing for the MySQL Symposium that should have taken place in
Amsterdam earlier this year and got cancelled. That talk supposed to be over 2 hours. So I kind of cut over 70% of the slides I had tried fitting them into a 20 minute talk.
I kind of "managed" :)
Bart gave an interresting talk about your online reputation, how to screw it and how to protect it. An interresting topic came up, should you poison your blog to attract a different audience ? Because according to him your peers are probably not your customers and you should try to get new potential customers to know you . So with that in mind.. what should I start blogging about ?
Clo and Bart Becks held a "Powerpoint Karaoke" on how to create a Sect, Pietel managed to take pictures that suggested that everybody actually joined the sect, that certainly wasn't true !
After It's in the details by Jesse and an even more interresting talk about what we could do with Freebase by Will I headed home exhausted, but satisfied.
I`m sure I missed some other interresting talks like the one from Toon Vanagt about TransferItOnline but other events will come where I can meet and talk to those people again !