Cristiano on Tech/Life

BarCampLondon5 is almost a week away and I haven’t figured out my talk yet. I gave two talks at BarCampBrighton3 last month, both photography related, but both not really that well visited which means I’m now kind of without ideas and instead would like to ask you: what should I talk about?

Photography

I still have the feeling that it would be interesting to talk about photography, but it is hard to guess what would be more interesting: an advanced topic or a more simple topic. At BarCampBrighton3 I talked about Histograms and HDR photography, both talks attracting mainly the few experienced photographers. Later on I heard a few people claim they wanted to hear my HDR talk so it might be worth to do that one again.

Instead I could do a beginners/hands-on session, bringing my 2 DSLR and 1 SLR camera and maybe asking some fellow photographers to join me to give some newbies their first hands-on experience with a semi-pro camera. I think this could be loads of fun for everyone, especially if we could bring some nice objects to test people’s photography skills on.

Bookmarklets

Alternatively I could talk about how to make a bookmarklet. I have some experience with two bookmarklets that I made in the past and I could give people a quick overview of what is possible with bookmarklets, the tools you can use to make them, security and limits, and maybe eventually a hands-on session in making a simple bookmarklet.

What do you think?

To sum up my story, I want to know what you (the people attending BarCampLondon5) think would be an interesting topic I could talk about. I think BarCamps should be focussed a bit more about what people want to hear but I guess that’s for a different blog post.

As some of you may know, tickets for BarcampLondon tend to be sold out really fast, leaving many without a ticket. And now, thanks to Harry M, Barcamps have gone full circle with the introduction of the spinoff to BarcampLondon5: BarcampLondon5-Spillover (although I think that to stick with the FooBar concept they really had to go for BazCamp).

So if you can’t come to BarcampLondon5 but you do want to have some Barcamp experience, then sign up for the Spillover event that is held on Saturday September 27th from 9am to 9pm. The venue is provided by The British Computer Society which is nicely located in central London. Tea and coffee will be available for free and work is underway to find a sponsor for lunch.

You can get your tickets on EventWax, and contact me or Harry M on twitter if you are willing to sponsor.