What is OggCamp 10?
OggCamp is a free software / free culture unconference organised by the presenters of the Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws. This year’s OggCamp will take place at The Black-E in Liverpool, UK on the 1st and 2nd of May 2010, 10am – 5pm both days. It’ll be 2 full days of Free Software, Free Culture and Free Thinking. We have a large venue booked and expect 200-300 people. If you want a chance to meet others who are passionate about technology and share ideas this is a great chance. We have many top FOSS developers from around the world joining us.
ENTRY TO OGGCAMP IS COMPLETELY FREE!
If you want to get a feel for the event, have a look at our recap of OggCamp 2009.
What is an Barcamp/unconference?
More formal conferences have the usual people speaking every time; an unconference is an opportunity to interact with new and interesting people. There won’t be a published list of speakers before the event, everyone generates content on the day. That can include you! The schedule is decided by the attendees and we’ll have a voting system for that.
See what others are already proposing – http://ideas.oggcamp.org/talks
What Is An Ogg?
Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source. OggCamp is about technology, Open Source and Freedom, but also about music, art, politics, community, creativity and much more. We chose to use the term Ogg because for us it reflects all these things pretty neatly.
Get Involved
Please add your own ideas for talks and activities to our public wiki help make the event what you want it to be! It doesn’t even have to be about technology strictly, it could be anything. We have about 60 slots available and all are welcome – ideas.oggcamp.org
You can also meet other attendees on IRC in #oggcamp on the Freenode network.
If you have a project you’d like to promote or exhibit about you can email the organising team – oggcamp@ubuntu-uk.org
Come and join us, it’s going to be a great weekend. There’s travel information and much more at http://oggcamp.org
Also See The Rathole Roadshow
OggCamp 10 is preceded by a special free culture gig on Friday April 30th 8pm (the night before). It’ll be at the Bad Format Social Club in Liverpool. Kick off the weekend in style with live music from David Rovics, Attila The Stockbroker and Rathole Radio host (and Linux Outlaw) Dan Lynch, among other guests. Tickets are £5 in advance and can be bought from the website right now.
