OggCamp '13
18 - 20 Oct 2013 at Liverpool John Moore's University Art & Design Academy

This was an excellent talk and a real eye opener, the talk was informative both on the why as well as the how, I especially liked the tips given on how to stay safe and what to do if you are ever approached.

I look forward to seeing more of her talks at future events.

Very glad Jon was happy to pull together a proper talk session with Lorna and Mark's help; all came out of Tobias' OS-education talk, admittance of not knowing enough about Git and Github (from several of us); and my/Jon's chat from Saturday night that he'd help me out a bit. Love it when things just almost-magically happen (acknowledging their hard work here) and work out like that, and Jon found a spare short slot before Rafflecast for it.

I'm sure I learnt a lot more from the combination of talkers than I would just asking Jon/Lorna to assist my specific barriers-to-entry for git/github pull-requests and conflict-merging.

Jon just launched straight into explaining his workflow, then Mark talked about his and slightly more of an overview/why level, then Lorna the consummate pro at talks like this flew at breakneck speed through an existing (not hers I think) talk and demo'd stuff as she went in the terminal.

Wow! Oggcamp rocks!

I think I needed some of Lorna's overview to be ready to hear Jon's part, more about preparing my mind for the more technical bits and to get into context (it can be slow to catch up with the depth-focus like that sometimes). But it was all organised at such short notice and with no practice-run, only the barest of top-level plans, and it covered everything in at least overview/first-example form that could be needed, that I have to say bloody well done all of you!


Minor note to Caddi: its Jon not John btw

Fun as always, watching Popey run up and down giving out prizes! Can we watch it again? :)

Definitely in the top-five reasons to come to OggCamp (whether I win anything or not - handily won the Git O'Reilly pocket guide book though, perfect coming just after our just-arranged Git session talk)

Great to have a chance to play with an Ubuntu Touch phone (and FireFoxOS, though I skipped that as had already done so in Hugman's talk the day before), as I'm lazy/not sure it would work on my current smartphone (Maemo-based, though Android-hacks exist). The idea was great, the execution was good, and I can't possibly fault them for anything else having only come up with it the evening before at the bar.

If you do it again and get more time, I'd have liked more audience participation in choosing some categories for you to bat against each other.

Just caught the end of this talk but took some notes from the websites mentioned to add to my "to research" list.. I desire a <xxxx>-copter but am not really much of a hardware-hacking guy. This should make it easier, if/when I get round to it.

Talk was well planned but delivery I think would improve if practiced; there was a bit of a demo/how-to feel to it which is just the style chosen.

Awesome talk, given by a great talker! So informative and at a good level too, not too technical for the general geek audience there, I think.

My favourite thing about this talk: that the Git/Github talk came out of it mere minutes later. But thanks Tobias for a good talk and interesting to hear about the issues that you have getting and using decent fit-for-purpose software in Education. Without you that Git session would have been a smaller shorter more focussed thing between just me and Jon Spriggs and I'm glad we opened it up. I agree with Popey about your delivery style.

I never got a chance to suggest my thoughts regarding state of Ubuntu, oh well. Enjoyed a decent podcast episode as usual; though without Fab the banter dropped down a few % points of entertainment.

Being part of these and seeing them live is about half the reason I come to OggCamp.

Fantastic talk as we're coming to expect from FreakyClown. Given the main stage after last year's side-room was packed out and highly regarded, he didn't disappoint. Some people say you shouldn't overload the audience with info in slides, but his intro works perfectly firing through his "about me" bit in mere seconds with what must be about 20 images all clearly showing one side of his history/skills before he launches into the talk topic. There's lots of humour, lots of education and everything else there should be in a great talk.

There were some minor points I think regarding the wireless headset mic that dropped out a couple of times as he moved around - he is quite an active talker and uses the screen to good effect; the mic slipped a couple of times I think. But that's probably a combination of causes.

The live demo for NFC was lots of fun too. Would /you/ trust someone like him but with unknown morals with your bank card even for just a second? A local bus pass was probably much safer for the demo.

He does speak pretty quickly at times; I understood it all fine though occasionally missed some words. If the talk wasn't so bloody good in so many areas I'd left it at rating 4 as there's room for improvement. If things become even smoother and the tech keeps up with him then I'd like to give a 6 next time...

Great to feel what a FirefoxOS phone (albeit an early example) is like to use, James is very knowledgeable about his part of it and can explain it well. He did a good job to answer other questions where he was allowed/could.
He loses a point for notably late arrival for the talk (assuming I'm not confusing things), but he did explain and apologise.