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First up, a big hello to any BCB5ers reading this - it was great to meet you all and I'm glad you've stopped by here. Part of the idea with BarCamps is that everyone should talk and share, not just spectate, but it still took quite a lot of prompting by a friend to convince me to speak. A roundup of links and thoughts: One of my favourite things ...

I ended the first day of BCB5 by having dinner with as many people as we could manage to get in one place at the same time, arguing on. I even managed to convince people to play renga/tanka/haiku with me. Have I mentioned how much I love the unstructured parts of conferences? And unconferences are pretty much entirely unstructured! I could ...

Much heated discussion in this session, perhaps because we're currently in the 'blog reviews' section and many participants have rather a personal stake in things. People seem to like: * A simple design, * Information available on authors, * Not-too-small, not-too-large posts, including photos, * A clear domain name. I suspect there will be ...

This is a way of setting up a community owned and run network, which can be an internal network or can connect to the Internet. I won't go into the details too much because I'd probably embarrass myself, but Renee recommended Wireless Networking for the Developing World for more information. I'd also recommend Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves ...

BCB5 is awesome so far. (Once again, all my favourite aspects of conferences, or in this case an unconference - interesting people, the overlap between well-known topics and new ones, plus free food.) I'm used to seeing the social justice/politics/technology addressed from an activist perspective, so it was certainly a change to go to a session ...

10:50 - have now arrived and eventually connected to wifi...after quite a few people tried to help me, the final solution ended up being the usual one - turn it off and then on and try again. Everything is more or less in chaos, people (mostly men) everywhere and incomprehensible announcements over a megaphone. Looks like it's going to be ...