Photos: Perversion party

The party proper was a camera-free zone, but excursions were made.
I expect to add slothphil's photos in later
Updated gallery with photos from slothphil
In the Park

Barcamp Christchurch 2010

So I spent most of yesterday at the Christchurch BarCamp unconference (twitter #tag #bcchch)

It Rocked.

I don't think an official head count was ever done, but there would have been between 30 and 40 people from the web dev scene in Christchurch there, ranging from random webmonkeys like myself to high-powered programmers living in NZ but teleworking for outfits in Australia or the States. There were even a couple of people down from Wellington.

Topics covered (not in order)
- introducing open source projects with local connections like CrowdFusion (publishing) and GroupServer (mailing list management),
- an introduction to Forensic Computing,
- background on the ACTA and publicACTA meetings which were happening in Wellington yesterday, and why ACTA is bad, mmm k?
- The Case of the Midnight Note (roleplayers especially LARPers - follow that link!) a 'transmedia' game which the Wellington tech community ran across Twitter/Facebook/blogs/the real world as a fundraiser to send people to Webstock, and how the team behind it is partnered with DigitalNZ to see what sort of Augmented Reality games you can create merging the world of today with the archived history of yesterday.
- ethics + sustainable development practice for programmers
- some of the really shiny stuff you can do with html5/css3
- Idea management
- A round up of various informal groups that meet up regularly in Christchurch to discuss internet technologies & issues
- and more

I even got a solid line on a co-working cluster with space available here in Christchurch :D

Edit: And next year I'm totally taking my laptop -with- me