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

Talk was good, reinforced things I'd been thinking about and got me motivated to try and grow a project a bit more. Confusion from CampFireManager moving the rooms around at the last minute was not so good and left Jon short on time.

A combination of political rant and a strong plug. I wasn't quite ready for that and it was a bit heavy for my liking.

But the speaker had good style and didn't um and er noticably.

Its always funny watching @popey run around a big lecture theatre up and down the stairs to deliver prizes.

The Nexus 7 tablet grand prize took an unexpected turn when the winner donated it to the presenters for them to auction off for Oggcamp Funds. It made us feel in awe of the few (then down to 2) people who pushed the price well past its normal retail price and on to £280 (it was a 16Gb model).

It was nice to see the portraits that had been taken during the event by Tony and a small team - including a girl I can't remember the name of (might have been Ade's partner? - up on the main stage's screen during this.

I also won an Ubuntu t-shirt (if slightly expensive for how many tickets I bought, and in Large rather than my Medium size) so that pushes my rating to 5 :)

Interesting learning both more about the product and more about the process of creating it, then moving that into a mass-producable product and the evolutions that happened on the way as well as the costs.

Good point, sorry. We kinda ran out of time at the end, I would have liked more questions/discussion.

ps. Cool, I can't comment unless I rate. Bug! I guess I'll give myself 4/5 then :-)

Very interesting to hear about the development of the board from a man who played a major role in making it happen. Also good to hear about the decisions that were made along the way.

Shame about that bloody church bell going off throughout most of the talk. Just bad luck.

Loved the lightning talks, well done to speakers. Well organised by oggcamp crew - strict on time and 1 question, straight on to next speaker. This made it run well.

Good idea for a talk, and the speaker did well to speak confidently for 30 mins. Sitting down using the tablet for notes worked very well; better than pacing nervously peering back at a lame powerpoint presentation.

The only problem was that no group participation was encouraged - I went along to discuss my experience with groups and hear from others about theirs, but the opportunity was not given for discussion.

Interesting talk, well delivered. Exactly the sort of thing I want to see at a barcamp event.