BarCamp HK: What to expect (Updated)

Updated: I’ve included a *long* list of what those registering for BarCamp this year want to learn or share.

One question I am often asked is what to expect from BarCamp. It’s a difficult question to answer since no one knows! BarCamp is special because we invite everyone to participate. The first hour of the day is a brainstorming session during which we decide what sessions will be presented. Some people prepare sessions in advance. Others are inspired that morning.

To give you a hint of what might happen next Saturday (September 12th), here are the sessions that ran last year:

• Online Marketing for Consumer Acquisition
• Technology Yesterday “Relevance”
• Creative Commons Hong Kong
• Open & Free Culture
• Reverse-Engineering Hong Kong Future Market
• Hyperlocal Networking
• Design UI
• Threadless for Shoes
• Digital Media Television
• OAuth
• Online Rich Text Editing
• DRUPAL!!!
• Hong Kong Startup Association
• GPS + Google Maps
• iPhone Apps
• Open Source & Microsoft
• Ruby on Rails
• Startup Lightning Talks
• Impact of TCP Windows Scaling
• YUI Library
• Convergence of Desktop & Web Applications
• Flex 4 SDK
• Just what the * is spam?
• ASP.NET MVC Demo, JavaScriptApplication
• Augmented Reality
• Music PC Game
• Mobile Gaming
• Twitter
• Visualizing Conversations
• Agile!

I know that the Hong Kong Startup Association is hoping to do another session on startups this year. I’ve heard we may have guests from Amazon who want to talk about cloud computing. The Ruby on Rails community has discussed doing another session this year. And I’ve heard proposals ranging from iPhone Apps, Google Wave, Twitter, running businesses in China, how to solve a Rubik’s cube and more. The only way to really find out is to turn up early next Saturday. See you there!

UPDATE: What You Want to Share

We’ve had close to 200 people register for BarCamp already. Below is a slightly edited list of what people are saying in response to the question: “What you like to share / learn / talk about?”

• iPhone application development
• Ruby on Rails, Pylons
• MongoDB or other “NoSQL” databases such as CouchDB, HBase, etc.
• Computer vision , OSS , GIS
• Meet and learn more about bloggers
• Hong Kong tech industry / blogging industry / social media industry
• Local tech entrepreneur experience (The highs and lows of starting a tech firm in HK ?)
• Share about the mobile internet in handheld devices.
• web, mobile, science, technology
• Creative Commons
• Would like to learn more about web and iPhone app development
• Open source, computer technology
• I would like to learn about mobile web, web marketing ..
• Social Media and SNS (esp. twitter, youtube, facebook etc.)
• Viral marketing
• Seeding, reporting of viral videos
• Social Marketing Policy
• learn more on mobile internet
• social media api
• I’d love to hear more about Web 2.0 in HK. Just moved here recently.
• Software idea brainstorming
• Testing
• Google Applications, such as Google Maps, etc.
• Web/ mobile projects in Africa, Asia
• Social Networking Hardware
• Barcamps in South East Asia
• iPhone development , Facebook application development
• Social Betting/Gaming
• Mobile phone application
• Learn - social media marketing and research
• I got no idea on Barcamp, just wanna see what’s that
• entrepreneurship, mobile, game, prc
• how to engage with prospects and journalists through social media
• case studies on HK companies using social media releases
• innovations that companies should look into in the development of social media that will help businesses operate more efficiently
• How to close the gap between advertiser, publisher and agency
• iPhone app trend, mobile , and how can it merge into China’s market.
• Meaningful Media
• What is Consciousness?
• web application and development
• .NET
• knowledge management
• Cloud Computing
• Amazon Web Services
• Second Life scripting, building, event
• PHP programming
• Would like to learn: Things of interest to software developers in Hong Kong
• State of the cloud computing marketplace
• Anything new, cool, fun and useful
• viral marketing
• Web 2.0 + social network
• Cloud computing
• Using web as a tool for social advocacy
• I would like to share/ talk with the group about the latest social media consumption and habits of the general population of Hong Kong consumers, also touching on the affluent market.
• Any new gadgets
• Learn: How HK users use mobile and social media.
• Happy to share how I use Social Media to build the GenMobileC community
• YUI vs. JQuery,
• founding a start-up in HK,
• Rich Internet Applications,
• project management and planning,
• Agile/Lean project management.
• new technology, or pretty much anything
• consumer products and open source - what are the next steps for open products made locally?
• Hong Kong radio, music and how the Internet can service them both. Who listens to radio in Hong Kong to listen to music?
• Cloud Computing
• Virtual Infrastructure
• Open Source, iPhone, Mobile networking, etc
• Learn Web Technology
• Design and Web Tech!
• webdesign + animation / motion graphics for web
• just for visiting and enjoy the event
• facebook trend?
• I’d interested in learning about the event. How and why it’s organized and whether it’s an idea/event I can set up in my own country, Lebanon.
• See what talent and ideas are about at the moment.
• on-line marketing
• learn Design, Web tech and Software development
• iPhone application development
• Startup that work with large company
• Want to share Tweetwawa Twitter Client idea
• I would like to introduce poken (www.doyoupoken.com) to you guys, how it started, how it is used for various networking, meetups, etc.
• monetizing social media
• How do we help people to work together more effectively and build community?
• Anything Rails is possible, jQuery too
• JavaScript
• Varnish
• security best practices
• Drupal
• To learn start-up freelance experience
• iphone game development
• Facebook Application
• I would like to learn operating system development.
• high scale
• startup problems
• erlang
• xmpp
• AMPQ
• I’m gonna start a topic called “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Startup Survival”
• We’d really like to share to our audiences what we’ve seen in the last 10 months since the company founded - everyone working part time and most of the members being students. And getting feedback from the audiences. e.g. on how their startups managed to survive and grow despite unfavorable odds, what they think we can improve, what the other people would have done in similar situations, etc.
• Anything Apple
• The free culture in hong kong and how it can help to change the current society.
• Twitter!
• Web OS in internet
• the relationship between browser, protocol and internet in next generation
• Anything that not in the current internet, whatever new idea, not technical stuff but inspritional idea
• Web based life (a global vitual life, then we can have double life..), web identity, new browsing skill
• online recruitment, recruitment 2.0
• Any new technology related to Open Source.
• I want to learn something I never heard and seen
• Lean more about new technology, meet others in industry
• rails, startups, iphone, the web in asia
• web developement.
• learn about digital PR
• Angel investing and startups in HK
• Digital Media, Creative Content
• programming,high-tech related
• 2D Barcode
• 1st time attending, interested in learning about the tech startup/entrepeneur network in HK and to network.
• Internet Marketing, SNS-technology/trends and any interesting stuff/treasure hidden in the corners.
• Drupal, mobile apps, android, augmented reality apps (AR)
• Gui, Mobile applications, human computer interaction etc, design theory in end user applications.
• Gesture Implications in Consumer Applications
• Integrating social media platforms
• digital marketing
• Using social media to reach readers