BarCamp HK 2009

BarCamp HK is one of my favorite events of the year. This year over 300 campers attended 35 sessions on 12 September at Turner International’s beautiful offices in Quarry Bay. Topics ranged from iPhones to ethics in social media. Microsoft provided an XBox which went to the most popular presenter of the day, Kin Ko for his session on mobile gaming in China. River Ho walked away with an iPhone 3GS from Pinpoint Asia.

But prizes aside, the whole day was fantastic and left me exhausted. This was definitely our best barcamp yet. Read on for links, photos, and notes from the day.

Google Wave

I did a (surprisingly well attended) session on Google Wave. For those who want more info, check out:

• Sign up for Google Wave (includes video)
• Wave Protocol website
• Wave APIs & code
• My diagram of wave protocols

If you have a Wave account, you can find me at jaaron@wavesandbox.com

Links

I’ll add more as I find them:

• Facebook event with photos
• BarCamp Wiki
• Photos on Flickr
• Tweets
• Belle’s videos on Blip.TV
  • the Lumina session [Lumina website]
  • the iPhone forum
  • Bill’s Go Indie video
  • River’s Analytics session
  • William’s iPhone developer session
  • Google Wave Part 1 and Part 2
• Andrei’s slides from his HK Government funding for startups session
• Ben’s slides on Pylons + Tokyo Cabinet
• Video of Kin Ko’s winning talk on Mobile games in China
• Andy’s links from his session on open source design
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to Startup Survival slides
• Poken made a splash
• Preetam Rai’s Travel 4 Web 2.0 slides
• Bill’s blog on his Go Indie session
• Alan Knowles’ review on his blog, “Smoking toooooo much PHP”
• Sammy Fung wrote about his session on GoGoGo (English Version)
• Don’t miss Ryanne’s review of barcamphk, incl. photos, links, ideas…

Sessions

Here’s a copy of the final schedule for the day.

ROOM	11:00	11:45	12:30	13:30	14:15	15:00	15:45	16:30	17:30
ROOM 1	Web 2.0 RIA	IncuTrain	LUNCH	Meaningful Media	Social Media for Social Good	Personal enterprise portal	OO Javascript with custom events	Extreme fast screen mockup for developer	Closing
ROOM 2	Meet the Pokens	GIS x Internet / Digital Marking via 2D Barcodes	LUNCH	Drupal!	HK Government Funding for Startups	Hitchhiker’s Guide to Startup Survival	Future of Internet Service Provider (Cloud Computing)	Asian BarCamps	Closing
ROOM 3	HK Startups (HKSUA)	Ruby: Consuming APIs	LUNCH	iPhone forum	Mobile games in China	Creative commons HK	Google Wave	Analytics: Next Level	Closing
ROOM 4	CNN Go	D	LUNCH	Secret to Web 2.0 Success	Social space for networking creative agent development	Tweetwawa	iPhone Development Whirlwind Tour	Lumina: HK’s 1st Online Fantasy Film	Closing
ROOM 5	Rails Authlogic	Startup Lessons from 0 to 1	LUNCH	Making open source transit planner	Open source graphic design	OO JavaScript w/ Custom Events	Beyond Rails: Pylons + Tokyo Cabinet	Go Indie: An alternative to a startup.	Closing

Thanks

Many, many thanks to all those who made BarCamp HK possible, especially the other organizers, Napoleon, Belle, Ben and Henry, and to all the sponsors who generously gave us support: Turner, Microsoft, Adobe, Net Dimensions, Cyberport, Pinpoint Asia, Dedipower, Dookas and Socialutions.

And of course, barcamp couldn’t exist if it weren’t for everyone who attended and participated. Thanks to everyone who shared a session and put up with me moving sessions around.

Get Involved

If you know of any other barcamp hk links please add them in the comments.

If you’re interested in getting involved in barcamp hk next year, then please add your name to the wiki. We’re always looking for more volunteers and sponsors. And please leave feedback (here or on the wiki). What would you like to see next year? What worked well? What didn’t? Personally, I’d love to see barcamp reach a broader audience of participants from film, art, and music industries.

And if you liked barcamp hk, then don’t forget to attend other barcamps in Asia. Preetam Rai has a great weblog featuring barcamps in south east Asia. BarCamp Phnom Penh is coming up next month.

‘Napoleon with his flip!’ and ‘google wave! demo by aaron’ by Ryanne Hiu-Yeung Lai and ‘BarCamp HK 2009’ by Victor Isaac Cheung