Barcamp Hanoi 2009

If you have taken photos, recorded videos or given a presentation at BarCamp Hanoi 2009, Please

- Upload Photos to Flickr with tag barcamphanoi so people can see it here.

- Upload Videos to Youtube with tag barcamphanoi so people can watch it here.

- Upload Slide to SlideShare with tag barcamphanoi so people can read it here.

- Some photos about BarCamp Hanoi 2009 at AnhSo.net here.

- A quick revew from BaoMoi’s blog: http://blog.baomoi.com/2009/04/chuc-mung-barcamp-hanoi/

Speakers please write an email to barcamphanoi [at] gmail [dot] com with your name, your affiliation, your topic’s name and its short description, your twitter account (if you have one). We will update speaker list here for people who want to contact you for more discussion after BarCamp. Thank you so much.

Please leave your comment here to give us your feedback for BarCamp Hanoi 2009. Thank you so much!

First of all, if you cannot attend BarCamp Hanoi 2009, we kindly request that you let us know now (via the email barcamphanoi [at] gmail [dot] com) so that we can “un-register” you. This will help us better prepare. You will be still able to track the event via our channels for live reporting.

Here is some important information for the event.

Event information

• Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009
• Time: 8.30AM to 5.00PM
• Location: RMIT International University, Hanoi Campus – 2/2C Van Phuc Compound, Kim Ma street, Hanoi. [Google Maps]
• Lunch: will be served
• Parking: there is a motorbike parking, and a car parking not so far from the location.
• Public transportation: public bus lines 07, 09, 13, 18, 20,…. Please check it here (maybe it’s quite outdated but it’s the best version we have got)

How to prepare now

• Bring business cards (name cards)
• Bring a laptop. BarCamp is an online-offline event. Having a laptop with Wifi is very important to help you participate and communicate.
• Bring a camera if you would like take photos.
• Bring a video camera if you would like to make videos of the sessions.
• If you have available job postings, we will have a bulletin board where you can display them.

Be ready to participate

This is the most important thing. Remember BarCamp is about participation. This event is for you and by you. If you haven’t started yet, now’s the time to start preparing your session. You don’t have to be an expert at your topic; as long as it’s not too specific, there’ll probably be someone else present who can help you out. You can also contribute to the conversation during a session. This is a great way to participate, since it spreads knowledge from everyone, instead of just the leader.

• Topics may include, but are not limited to: online services, social media, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, VC, Web 2.0 technologies, online marketing, online advertising, online payment, e-commerce, open source software, hardware hacking, robotics, mobile computing, bioinformatics, programming languages, even the future of technology or global issues.
• Possible formats: a presentation, a round-table discussion, a technology demo, or …
• Time length: 25 minutes or 55 minutes long
• Equipment available in every room: a whiteboard and a projector. Ideally, you should bring your own laptop if you give a presentation.
• Preferred languages of presentations are English and Vietnamese. If you have a presentation in English, you may want to have your presentation translated into Vietnamese for the benefit of everyone. The same thing goes if it’s in Vietnamese. We can help with some of the translation. For help, email your slides to barcamphanoi [at] gmail [dot] com and we will put them on Google Docs so that everyone can help in making it bilingual.
• Keep in mind that presentations have to be interactive, so dedicate 20-25% of your time for questions and small discussions.
• Please make sure your presentations fit in dedicated time. We’ll have 5 parallel, synchronized threads of presentations, so even difference of 2 minutes can spoil the rest of event.

Schedule

• When you arrive, go to the pre-registration table, where you will get a namebadge. Start thinking of 3 tags that describe you, what you’re passionate about (or want to talk about). Having written tags on your namebadge is a great conversation-starter with other BarCampers.
• We start by gathering together in one space and going around the room to introduce ourselves. There will also be some announcements. As with all BarCamps, the schedule and location of the sessions will be decided on the day of the event by everyone. People who intend to lead a session will add their session info to an empty schedule grid. If you see a session you’re interested in, go to it. You can check it for updates as the day progresses. There will be a live online schedule for you to check via your laptop.
• After a couple of sessions, you will have a significant amount of downtime for lunch. Feel free to wander around and socialize while or after you eat. More announcements will be made, and any newly proposed sessions will be announced.
• After the sessions are finished, please stick around to clean up. It’s generally as simple as throwing trash away and taking down signs, but all the help is appreciated.

Collaborative Technology

To fully communicate during BarCamp, it’s important to be familiar with certain technologies, preferably before Sunday:

• You can chat with other BarCampers and follow live news from BarCamp participants at BarCamp Hanoi Live
  • You should create an account on Twitter and use the hashtag #barcamphanoi when sending your own tweets during BarCamp so that people can track.
• You can follow live news from organizers at Twitter updates for barcamphanoi

Another important activity at BarCamp is sharing the session proceedings with everyone in the world. During and after the event, try to upload:

• Presentation slides to SlideShare with the tag barcamphanoi
• Photos to Flickr with the tag barcamphanoi
• Videos to YouTube with the tag barcamphanoi
• Web links to delicious with the tag barcamphanoi

General Tips

• Rehearse your talks and leave room for questions. Your audience will thank you for it.
• Don’t plan on having wi-fi for your talk. You probably will — but always plan for Murphy and his blasted law. If it’s really crucial to show things to people, take screenshots and do screencasts just in case.
• Be kind on the wi-fi. No torrenting or crazy 12-megapixel full-size HDR Flickr uploads, please. Share the bandwidth, share the love.  If you don’t, we have ways of finding you.  We are computer nerds, after all.
• Speaking of sharing, share and be helpful.  We’ll get into this more down in the conduct section below.
• Shirts are free, but please don’t take more than one for yourself.
• Please don’t bring anything illegal. It’s not that we care, necessarily, but we would like to not get shut down over anything silly.
• No, you don’t have to speak, but we’d hope, if you’re there, that you have something to share. This is a good place to come out of your shell.
• Any and all photos, videos, slides uploaded to Flickr, Youtube, SlideShare should be tagged with ”barcamphanoi”.
• If you use Twitter to report about BarCamp Hanoi, don’t forget the hashtag #barcamphanoi.

More Questions

If you have any questions, just send an email to barcamphanoi [at] gmail [dot] com

What:

BarCamp is a user-generated event — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.

There is no audience, only participants. Attendees must give lead a discussion, give a demo, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way to support the event. All sessions are scheduled the day they happen. The people present at the event will select the demos or presentations they want to see.

Attendance is free of charge.

Topics may include, but are not limited to: online services, social media, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, VC, Web 2.0 technologies, online marketing, online advertising, online payment, e-commerce, open source software, hardware hacking, robotics, mobile computing, bioinformatics, programming languages, even the future of technology or global issues.

Learn more about BarCamp: http://www.barcamphanoi.org/?page_id=2&lang=en
Want to sponsor us: http://www.barcamphanoi.org/?page_id=12&lang=en

When:

April 19, 2009
8.30 AM to 5.00 PM

Where:

RMIT International University, Hanoi Campus
2/2C Van Phuc Compound, Kim Ma Street, Hanoi.

View the map here: http://www.barcamphanoi.org/?page_id=9&lang=en

Logo 25

We would like to congratulate @forty4vn on the logo number 25 which gets the most votes with the total number of 54 votes.

Barcamp Hanoi 2009 logo design contest has lasted within a month: 3 weeks for designing and a week for voting. With 40 logos in total 48 logos for joining the contest which attracts 147 voters with total number of 432 votes. Finally, we have found the logo which attracts the most people and that logo will be the official logo for BarCamp Hanoi 2009. And our official logo will appear in official Barcamp Hanoi website (http://www.barcamphanoi.org), banners, annoucement as well as T-shirts for everyone joining Barcamp Hanoi 2009.

Thank you very much for your great contribution to designing the most wonderful logos. If your logo is not chosen this time, we hope that your logo will be the chosen one next time. And great thanks to you who are interested in voting for our official Barcamp Hanoi 2009 logo in this contest.

Although the contest is public and open, we can not avoid some voting issue. In a short period of time, there was 2 groups of spammers continuously voting for logo number group: 13, 15, 17 and 30, 31, 32. All the unfair-detected votes was removed.

We want to thank everyone for their dedicated support and creative contributions during this process, we couldn’t have done it without you and we’re so proud of what is represented through the designs that you submitted to the contest.

Picking the best logo was a very challenging task as there were many amazing designs to choose from. But the final decision is up to you!

Please take a moment and help us select the official Barcamp Hanoi 2009 Logo by voting for your 3 favorite designs right below. Voting will end on Monday March 30th at 11:59 PM (GMT+7). We’re excited to see which design wins!

Candidates

(We only choose 40 suitable designs from 48 submissions and they’re in random order.)

Logo 1

Logo 2

Logo 3

Logo 4

Logo 5

Logo 6

Logo 7

Logo 8

Logo 9

Logo 10

Logo 11

Logo 12

Logo 13

Logo 14

Logo 15

Logo 16

Logo 17

Logo 18

Logo 19

Logo 20

Logo 21

Logo 22

Logo 23

Logo 24

Logo 25

Logo 26

Logo 27

Logo 28

Logo 29

Logo 30

Logo 31

Logo 32

Logo 33

Logo 34

Logo 35

Logo 36

Logo 37

Logo 38

Logo 39

Logo 40

Thanks to RMIT Ho Chi Minh city for supporting for the venue of Barcamp Saigon 1, and once again RMIT Hanoi will support our Barcamp Hanoi 2009. The infrastructure of RMIT Hanoi (projectors, rooms, wifi…) is really good and it can hold about 300 attendents. Details:

WHEN

8h 30′ a.m – 5h 00′ p.m, April 19th 2009

WHERE

RMIT International University Vietnam – Hanoi Campus

2/2C Van Phuc Compound – Kim Ma Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi

Now we have the official venue and date confirmed, please be ready to join and you can think about your session topic for sharing in Barcamp Hanoi 2009.

Thank you very much for you interest, the registration date will be announced soon.

The first submission to Barcamp Hanoi 2009 Logo Design Contest

At present we are having some logo submitted for the contest and we know that the time seems so short for you all to complete your logo for submission.

After great 2nd Barcamp Hanoi organizer meetup tonight, the Logo Design Contest submission deadline is extended to:

Saturday, March 21st, 11:59 PM (GMT+7)

So you will have more than 3 weeks from now to prepare. But don’t waste your time, start your work right now!

Thanks for joining and we are looking for your great Logo for BarCamp Hanoi 2009.

Barcamp Hanoi 1 Logo

The current logo you’re seeing on top of this page is the logo of Barcamp Hanoi 1. Several months ago, right after we put it on the homepage,  some people gave us feedback that we should change the logo. And we see that other Barcamps also change their logo for each individual event. So we think it’s right time now to announce a tiny logo design contest for Barcamp Hanoi 2009. Then we can use the winning logo to print banner, T-shirt, official documents and put it on the homepage. You can read more detail about the contest below:

Barcamp Hanoi 2009 Logo Design Contest

Help Barcamp Hanoi create a unique and meaningful logo for the event of 2009.

Reward for the Winner

• Community-Wide recognition for designing the official Barcamp Hanoi 2009 logo featured on the official homepage.
• A free Barcamp Hanoi 2009 T-Shirt to show off your winning design.

Submission deadline

Saturday, March 21st, 11:59 PM (GMT+7)

Design Guidelines

The logo should:

• Convey the concept of Barcamp (You can use the starting files here)
• Be distinct, unique and easily identifiable (It’s the logo of Barcamp Hanoi, not a general Barcamp)
• Aesthetically fit in with a broad range of site/application designs

References:

How it works

• First, create your Logo design. View the Design Guidelines for more details.
• Upload your design to the contest-specific Flickr group Barcamp Hanoi 2009 Logo Design Contest for review.
• These designs will be posted online at the homepage of Barcamp Hanoi for public voting. You determine the winner!
• The winning Logo will be used on blog, websites, banners, documents and T-shirt to help promote Barcamp Hanoi 2009.
• If you have any additional questions, comment right below this post.

Submission & Judging Criteria

• You can submit more than one design.
• Submissions can be made via JPG/GIF/PNG however please be prepared to provide high resolution/vector graphic versions of your work.
• As part of the submission, participants must be willing to give up all their rights to the copyright and donate it to the community.
• Tag your photo with the phrase “BCHN 2009 LContest“. This will allow us to search for and pull your photo into a public image gallery.
• Join the contest-specific Flickr group Barcamp Hanoi 2009 Logo Design Contest and add your image to the image pool.
• Make sure your Flickr account is linked to an active email address; this is the only means of contacting the winner!
• Don’t forget, the submission deadline is Saturday, March 21st, 11:59 PM (GMT+7). Start right now!

BarCamp is a user-generated event — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.

There is no audience, only participants. Attendees must give lead a discussion, give a demo, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way to support the event. All sessions are scheduled the day they happen. The people present at the event will select the demos or presentations they want to see.

Attendance is free of charge.

See more details at What is a BarCamp?

Who Participates?

Anyone who feels he or she is able to contribute to technology is welcome.

The event will be bilingual, in both Vietnamese and English.

Where & When?

It’s has not been determined yet but we’re working hard on it. So please keep up to date via:

RSS Feed

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Twitter

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Facebook

Join the Facebook group and spread the word organically through your friends & community.

Google Discussion Group

Event discussion, volunteer organization and planning.