BarCamp
The inaugural FreeLegalWeb BarCamp (as below) was held October 2008. See the blog report.
Date: Saturday 18 October. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Venue: Adelphi Room, Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
Purpose: This was the first key stage in the Free Legal Web project to progress it beyond the initial blog discussion.
What’s a Barcamp? <- link!
Questions addressed were:
- What type of service are we aiming to achieve?
- Who can contribute what to the initial development project?
- What data resources are available and what are the barriers to their re-use?
- How can we best leverage those resources and add value?
- How can we best encourage and facilitate authoritative content contributions?
- How will we organise, manage and fund the project?
Organiser:
- Nick Holmes
Facilities:
- Adelphi Room
- Romney Room
- Wi-fi in both rooms
- Adelphi Room – Interwall back projection system with screen
- Flip charts
- Coffees etc
- Sandwich lunch
Sponsors:
- Principal sponsor OPSI – thanks to John Sheridan
- Additional sponsorship from TSO – thanks to Richard Goodwin
- Individual contributions won’t be listed, but thanks – you know who you are
- The balance – infolaw Limited – that’s me!
Participants:
- Nick Holmes
- Francis Irving
- Richard Goodwin
- Jeremy Gould
- Robert Brook
- Jeni Tennison
- Carl Gardner
- Paul Appleby
- John Sheridan
- Rob McKinnon
- Mark Harrop
- Adam McGreggor
- Francis Davey
- Joe Ury
- David Harris
- Harry Metcalfe
- Robert Casalis de Pury
- William Flack
- Boyang Xia
- Kaihsu Tai
- Tom Williams
- Michael Paulin
- Vishnu Prasad
- Scott Vine
Could not attend:
- Rachel Craven
- Charon QC
- Nearly Legal
- Jonathan Wilson
- James Mullan
- Andrew Keogh
- Jeremy Phillips
Status unknown:
- Stray Taoist
- Julian Todd
- Karl Grundy
- Simply Wondered
- Ed Whyman
- Mark Lizar
- Robert Ollett
ed whymandesign.com said
Hi
Sounds great.
Ill be there too.
Would it be possible to create a http://www.Barcampbar.org after the event with donated booze to raise funds for the RSA (as the RSA do such a good job!:)
nickholmes said
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Mark said
Looks good – sign me up
Joe Ury said
Interesting – I’d like to participate.
Nearly Legal said
Pencil me in, Nick – I may be able to come, but not sure yet.
nickholmes said
NL – Would be great if you could make it. We are short of content creators/subject specialists.
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David Harri said
I will attend
Harry Metcalfe said
I’ll be there.
William Flack said
Please can you sign me up for this. Thanks
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draq said
Not being a legal professional, but a student with strong interest in law (i.e. GDL after degree), is there a way that I am put down onto the list of participants?
draq said
Btw, my name is Boyang Xia.
Kaihsu Tai said
I plan to attend and would like to talk about the bylaws database idea: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Kaihsu/Bylaws_database
Tom Williams said
I’ll be there too.
Francis Davey said
My attendance is still Inshallah I am afraid.
Michael Paulin, Vishnu Prasad, Robert Ollett said
We are planning to attend.
Scott said
I should still be avle to attend. Not sure what i can contribute at this early stage, but can certainly throw in some thought on lawfirm content.
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Michael Cross said
This sounds brilliant. Could you put me on your mailing list, please?
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Phil Green said
Agree sounds brilliant. Interested from the point of view of Sustainable Community Action. Put some links on that wiki’s ‘Community resources’ page, and set up note for myself to keep an eye on