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Experiences from
the first german python barcamp by 
on 17. Apr. 2010
Howto make a PyBarCamp happen
- find people who are interested (mailings, doodle)
- find a venue (asking)
- find sponsors (asking)
- organize details (meeting)
- make it happen (be there)
- have fun (tell others)
further info about barcamps:
http://wiki.python.de/ConferencePlanning/Unconferences
Find People / organize
- pyCologne usergroup meeting
- mailing lists / January 16. first discussions
- doodle (vote for a month and date)
wiki http://python-barcamp.de (tell what you want to tell)
- announce . announce . announce
Sponsors
GFU, a Cologne based IT training company (http://www.gfu.net/), provided a set of three conference rooms, their cafeteria, and an assembly hall, which built up a perfect venue for the barcamp.
O'Reilly (http://www.oreilly.de/) sponsored selected Python-books, which were raffled in addition to a special Barcamp T-Shirt among the participants
- members of pyCologne sponsored pizza for all and t-shirts for the organisation team
== that spoken no fee for any attendee
The Venue
- each room with full equipment computers / beamers and of course wifi and/or wired ethernet
announce
- announce the date on various lists
- limited to 30 people, first come first serves
- announce it often
organisation details
- last personal meeting on Wednesday before the barCamp of the organisation team (regular pyCologne user meeting)
- designed and decided the logo for the t-shirt
- decided and ordered the restaurant
stuff to prepare in the morning before 10am, e.g.
make it happen
the sessions
- give simple rules
have fun - tell others
use a hashtag on twitter e.g. #pybar
tell what you watch:
PyPy,
- Plone,
MoinMoin-2.0,
- Django,
- imap2xmpp,
- bildout,
- couchdb,
- from frameworks to libraries,
- 3D-Grafic programming,
- Midi,
- Python and Java,
- Coworking Projekt Köln,
- pyCologne@FrOSCon,
- RPX für Plone und Twitter,
- Zotero,
- html2wiki,
- Webentwicklung Client vs. Server,
- scriptutil for fun and profit,
- Django
- OR-M im Backend
Press release
Authors: Reimar Bauer, Thomas Lenarz
On April 17th, 2010, pyCologne, the Python-User-Group of Cologne, Germany, welcomed about 20 participants at the first German Python-BarCamp at the site of GFU Cyrus AG in Cologne.
GFU, a Cologne based IT training company (http://www.gfu.net/), provided a set of three conference rooms, their cafeteria, and an assembly hall, which built up a perfect venue for the barcamp.
O'Reilly (http://www.oreilly.de/) sponsored selected Python-books, which were raffled in addition to a special Barcamp T-Shirt among the participants. The start of the event was awaited with eager anticipation since at a barcamp the participants themselves take care of the content. pyCologne took care of the organizational preparations.
the longer version at:
http://wiki.python-forum.de/PythonBarCamp/PressRelease