Events
These are events I've organised or spoken at.
Organiser
Farm Hack Day - 17th November 2007 - Organiser
I organised a Hack Day as part of the Brighton Digital Festival.
The event brought together about 40 developers, mainly local to the Brighton area but a few down from Oxford. They worked on a variety of small projects, including an adventure game integrated with a swipe card reader, a Twitter app, social networking friends finder, Facebook picture defacer, and many other things.
For the event I organised the venue, sponsorship from three local companies, advertising for the event including a blog, and gave an introductionary and closing talk. I also helped staff at the venue with some tech support when we broke their wifi connection.
BarCamp Brighton - 8-9th September 2007 - Co-Organiser
I helped organise the first BarCamp Brighton, the full team being Glenn Jones, Matt Weston, Andy Budd and myself.
The 'unconference' where all attendees give a talk about technology or one of their interests, happened over a weekend, with some attendees staying overnight. It was held in the offices of Madgex, where Glenn is a director. About 80 people attended, and over 100 more people wanted to sign up for the event.
My main organisational tasks was sourcing networking and IT equipment for the event from various sponsors, and advertising the event via a blog and various mailing lists. I also gave one of the first talks.
BarCamp Brighton 2 - 15-16th March 2008 - Co-Organiser
Currently I'm helping put on BarCamp Brighton 2
Jay Gooby and Jonathan Markwell have done a huge amount of work towards the event and so far I've been mainly an advisor.
Speaker
Start Up Day - 10th November 2007
David Rosam and I held an SEO Clinic at the Start Up Day run by Ian and John of the Five Pound App events.