OggCamp 12
18 - 19 Aug 2012 at Art & Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University

The Pi talk was great, but short. To get the full talk you had to attend the next days talk, which contained all of todays talk repeated plus the new stuff. wish I had known this in advance so I could have better planed my time. Still a fantastic talk though.

The Fry talk was fantastic also. despite being a prerecorded talk it lost nothing. Stephen Fry was brilliant.

Further note: I left after about 20mins but agree with everything I've read so far in other comments that I could have seen of the talk. Also noticed the to-and-fro from the mic and back towards the screen that made it more annoying, though I could just hear ok without the mic.

May I suggest to Amir, that you read a little on how to give a good talk, things like split it into intro,content,summary for the talk, and for each point/section you make; I've heard it said as "tell them what you're going to tell them, then actually tell them, then tell them what you just told them.". It needed structure and a focus, and targetting to the right audience (and to mention expected-audience level in the description, ideally). Oggcamp is a family-friendly event!

Gordon doing more fun with crazy old tech and hacking it in ways it likely wasn't intended. Scheduling cut time short on the talk but was really enjoyable. Be great if can get more time next year!!

Maybe it's worth getting some stuff into the UserGroup Leaders mailing list? http://lists.lopsanj.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-leaders

Failing that, can you include me in your conversation? :)

The "Intelligent Idiot" (as he calls himself) was on top form delivering his inspiring, call-to-arms to engage the next generation of young people in learning computing (programming and control engineering) as opposed to improving their skills in adding columns in tables in MS Word.

The "Intelligent Idiot" (as he calls himself) was on top form delivering his inspiring, call-to-arms to engage the next generation of young people in learning computing (programming and control engineering) as opposed to improving their skills in adding columns in tables in MS Word.

Yes, I was a panel member.

Pretty much agree with comments above. We seemed to go around in circles or dwell too long on the same question.

Perhaps to make it more interesting next year, panel members should have been directed to adopt certain positions/attitudes to see them try to defend them and make it more entertaining for the audience.

I enjoyed the Pi talk, I have one and it was nice to learn more about the background of the project. I think if the talk had been as long as intended and had gone into the nitty gritty of the hardware I might have lost interest but as it was it was just right.

Stepheny Fry's talk was great, it was clearly filmed using his personal webcam at home so was not TV's Stephen Fry, it was more personal and came across as genuine as can be and he sounded like one of us. His answers were well thought out and considered, it's hard to argue with his logic and clarity.

I went into this talk having no idea was was booked for this session, as it happens I found the talk interesting and had I the money I'd certainly fancy getting into 3D printing as it seems a promising technology. The speaker admitted the link to the Raspi is tenuous at best, probably best dropping that from the title and the talk would still stand up as a good introduction to the real-life consumer applications of 3D printing and I agree with Becky, the Dalek was pretty cool