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March 22, 2007

BarCampBoston2 Video Collage

Video snapshots from BarCampBoston2. Top middle is me over-excitedly and choppily-editedly raving about OpenID. See if you can spot the joke I stole from Simon Willison.

March 18, 2007

Pixels to Penguins

Aron Atkins’s first-prize-winning Flickr+MIDI+Tux mashup from BarCampBoston2’s Programming Contest. Enter a one-word keyword and hit the button.

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

"Boston Bar Queue Calculator". Won second place in the contest.

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: BBQ Calculator

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Match of the Penguins

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Match of the Penguins

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

Voice-Recognized Calculator-Barbecued Genetically-evolved Penguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Geneguin

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Pixels to Penguins

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest entries: Pixels to Penguins

By Aron of Spot Story. Takes a text entry, finds related tags, loads photos with those tags into an image of Tux, and plays a MIDI track based on it. Won first place in the contest.

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Instructions

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Instructions

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Shoes

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People: Shoes

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People

Qualitative Methods for Quantitative People

Mel Chua leading the QMfQP session.

Messed-up sticker printing.

Messed-up sticker printing.

These are two of the original batch of stickers I got from PSPrint. (The middle logo is a printout on work laser printer). As you can see, the rich emerald green of the BCB2 logo got printed as a dirty greenish-gray.

Luckily, PSPrint were incredibly lovely and helpful in trying to rectify this at high speed, printing and shipping out replacements that were delivered Saturday morning.

Geneguin

Geneguin

Clearly some people are taking the BCB2 programming contest with the seriousness it deserves.

BarCampBoston2 laptop sticker

BarCampBoston2 laptop sticker

Alas, I didn't have them in time for Day 1, but the laptop stickers have arrived and I'll be handing them out today.

BarCampBoston - DayOneLinkDump

BarCampBoston2 got of to a roaring, if less-busy-than-planned-due-to-weather, start today.

First of all, the most important link—the one that I was asked for repeatedly throughout the day—is the source of the lolcats that I used to help time the 10-Second Introductions. You can find all the anthropomorphized cats you desire at I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?.

Onto less important matters… OpenID! If you want, you can grab a copy of my slides (though they are hopefully relatively useless if you didn’t see me present). Useful OpenID links:

And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to exhume the presentation I gave last year, as I’ll be giving it again tomorrow morning due to “popular demand” (ie. one person asked me).

March 17, 2007

A gathering of OLPCs

A gathering of OLPCs

Several prototypes from the One Laptop Per Child program were brought along for geeks to play with. While I'm not going to give up my MacBook any time soon, they are beautifully designed for what they're needed to do.

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest topic board

BarCampBoston2 Programming Contest topic board

To inspire programmers taking part in the 24-hour Programming Contest, a list of topics was drawn up and ten were drawn at random.

(This board was later amended to say "Convince us that you used at least 4...")

And no, I have no idea what "BBQ Calculator" means either.

OLPCs bring joy

OLPCs bring joy

Alan Taylor with a OLPC laptop.

OLPC Draws the Crowds

OLPC Draws the Crowds

SJ Klein of OneLaptopPerChild draws a big crowd during an impromptu demonstration over afternoon break.

Geek Debris

Geek Debris

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IMG_0095.JPG

BarCampBoston2 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2.

Populating the Schedule

Populating the Schedule

The chalkboard -- or "physical wiki" as I prefer to call it.

Programming Contest suggestion board

Programming Contest suggestion board

BarCampBoston2 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2.

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IMG_0093.JPG

BarCampBoston2 - Uploaded with a demo version of FlickrExport 2.

BarCampBoston2 Schedule (Saturday morning)

BarCampBoston2 Schedule (Saturday morning)

BarCampBoston2

March 12, 2007

BarCamp / BarCampBoston2

New England geeks, this is your five-day warning: BarCampBoston2 is this weekend, and looking like it’s gonna be a good ‘un.

February 27, 2007

Philip Greenspun's Weblog : Free helicopter rides for programmers

Stonking prize for the BarCampBoston2 programming contest — A free helicopter tour of Boston with PhilG as your pilot!

February 13, 2007

BarCamp / BarCampBoston2

BarCampBoston2 is on for March 17th & 18th, at the Stata Center at MIT.


About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.