Albuquerque Barcamp 2
Albuquerque Barcamp 2 was held at the Media Arts Lab at the University of New Mexico on September 15th 2007. This year had a smaller turn out than last year did, but everyone who showed up presented something. I brought down all my podcasting gear and recording the entire event, but as it turns out almost every presentation required the visuals in order to make ay sense. This is always a danger when recording such events, but usually we get some pretty good stuff anyway. This year, however, really yielded only one presentation that could even remotely be understood without seeing what the presenter had on the projector.
The biggest reason for not being able to use most of the audio this year is because most of the presentation was based on the coding of website and web applications. Most of the attendees were guru’s in python (a web coding language) using zope or django. Soon I will get up the one presentation that could be (mostly) understood without the visuals up in the podcast feed (there are some charts that would be helpful, but the premise is understandable). By the way, that presentation is from Kevin Silver.
My overall take of Barcamp is not that is was bad, but that last years was better for a few reasons. The first is just due to the fact that there were a few more people there. This point is dwarfed by the next, which is that the diversity of topics last year was far greater. We had designers, front end coders, back end coders, and some that don’t fit into those categories at all, but gave really presentations on web related topics (i.e. taxonomy, usability and disability accessibility). I hope that next time the community in Albuquerque will come through and offer a greater scope of topics from a larger pool of talent.
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