Congratulations on the successful Barcamp Saigon
First of all we would like to extend our gratitude to all the sponsors, volunteers and technology enthusiasts from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, from Vietnam to Singapore as well as Cambodia, those who had supported Barcamp Saigon 1 (Barcamp Saigon 2008) so much that we had a great Barcamp Saigon on Saturday November 15. A detailed report of the day is as follows (our apology that it comes this late, for we were busy gathering photos, videos, and information on Barcampers and session leaders):
According to the schedule, registration started at 8:30AM but the organizers and volunteers arrived at 6:30 to prepare for the event.
8.30: Bryan Pelz, Preetam, Christine Trần were among the earliest Barcampers registered.
9.00:The Opening Ceremony took place at the Melbourne Theatre. Around 150 people were already present.
Organizers and volunteers near the session schedule.
It’s time for attending the sessions!
11.30: Time for lunch
Tea break
The closing ceremony took place at 16.30. Here, each barcamper was asked how they felt about Barcamp.
After that, Barcampers headed to Ngọc Thảo for the free #beercamp!
There were shortcomings though due to subjective and objective matters, which made Barcamp not as “perfect” as it was expected to be
. Wifi did not work out of the box because we had to go through the Proxy. As such, efforts to live broadcast the event via DDTH, JavaVietnam.org, Twitter, Pibb and other communcation channels were thwarted. However, MegoTV, an online streaming service, managed to live stream a session by our beloved Huyền Chip.
Despite our efforts to gather all the information relating to the sessions, many still remain unreachable. Should you know of those session leaders as well as the comments on their presentations, please leave a comment below or send an email to us at barcamp.saigon@gmail.com Thanks a lot!
You can download the slides of BarCamp Sài Gòn here. Session leaders please share your slides with everyone by uploading them to Slideshare with the tag “barcampsaigon” or sending them to chip@huyenchip.com so that she can do it for you.
Morning sessions:
1. eXtreme Programming - A Practitioner’s Approach by Lê Vi Khanh and Huỳnh Vi Quang - Stanyang Group
2. Python for the rest of your life- Nguyễn Thành Nam - CEO of Bluemoon. FYI, Bluemoon security group just won 1st place at HITB contest, one of the biggest security contests in Asia.
3. ????Machine Perception Pattern Recognition (Chip making)
4. ????Experience in Learning English - T.Tran
5. Global Positioning System - Nguyễn Đình Bảo - MXI, Raytheon
6. ?????RUP by Minh/IBM
7. How to Twitter (and Why) by Thomas Wanhoff. He’s one of the most famous postcasters in Germany.
8. Using Ubuntu Linux at American International School by Kevin Miller
9. Mobile GIS - Lê Ngọc Quốc Khánh, admin của http://javavietnam.org A pretty useful presentation for programmers.
10. VoIP using Linux (En/Vi) by two guys from GHP Far East - Anthony Fernandes (CTO) và Nguyen Duy Phong (IT Administrator)
11. Web 2.0 in China, Korea, Japan & World. Interesting MobileWeb Services by Preetam RAI - one of the most admirable bloggers and travellers of mine. He’s everywhere!
12. ????Learn and remember effectively (En&Vi)
13. Intel Technology and what you can do at Intel by Huan Dương from Intel Vietnam
14. Virtualization (system) by Stephane Masse IT Director Apple Tree and Le Trung Cang, IT Manager Archetype
15. ???????Open CV eigen face recognition by D. Minh
16. Echo-o and Google App Engine by Nguyen Tien Loi - Multinc
17. Microsoft Sync Framework & the future of WebApp by Lê Trung Hiếu - Global CyberSoft
18. ?????Linux is good for geeks
19. Vietnam Online: A macro view on a troubled but growing market by Bryan Pelz, CEO Vinagame
20. ??In space application. Machine vision by Vu
Afternoon sessions:
21. ???Adobe AIR development by Quang Tran
22. Linux and Enterprise by Võ Hồng Quân from GHP Far-East
23. Scalable cross-language services development with Apache Thrift (It’s cool!) by Thai DN - CSO from Dong A Bank. Did I tell you guys he’s one of the best hackers in Vietnam??
24. Surface Computing by Eric Hosick - RMIT lecturer & Mr. Cuong
25. How to make money online? Is online advertising the only way? by Rick Rodgers (Cross-Trade Border Director at PeaceSoft) & Trần Ngọc Thái Sơn (SonnyMotives) - (Representative of Vega Corp in HCMC (En&Vi). Interesting topic and it attracted a lot of barcampers. Of course, who doesn’t love money
26. ????Truck management (use GPS, GSM) by Dang Viet Hung
27. Roundtable: Startups in Vietnam. Share Experiences, lessons learned and tips for starting companies. For entrepreneurs: “Future Entrepreneurs” - By James Vuong (Vice President - Investment & Technology) and Hiep Do (Vice President - Investment & Technology) from IDGVV together with one of our organizers Daniel Shupp from Tech Propulsion. It was really great and helpful. Whoever wanna get funding from a VC should join it!
28. Ingredients of a successful web business by Chris Harvey, Genaral Director Navigos Group
He seems to be a very nice guy but he left too early.
29. E-learner Platform 2.0 by Nguyễn Anh Hùng, a young talent from FTU and one of Barcamp Saigon’s organizers. His E-learner Platform once implemented can help a lot of people.
30. ???Python by Nghia
31. “Social Networks” in Vietnam: Voices from the street by Phạm Anh Khoa and Đạt. Khoa is the founder of VietAbroader and an expert at Vietnam web market. But I have no information about his friend: Đạt until now.
32. ????Key Information on Webpage
33. IT Strategy: “Advancing your future” by Leon Sikes from VinaConsulting
34. Ask me anything about Drupal or Open Source or starting a non VC company by Jordan Lougheed - He seems to be very confident and a great freelancer.
35. Internet Television by Lê Quang Duy, one of BarCamp Saigon’s organizers: enthusiastic and willing to help. He’s going to be a very nice film maker.
36. Roundtable: Bringing Linux servers into a wintows network: products that will sell it to your managers!! by Urko Masse (SSIS Tech Coordinator)
37. ???Experiences Running a company in Vietnam (for foreigners) by Eric
38. Meet Sexy Cambodian Bloggers (Both Male/Female) - Preetam and 2 sexy Cambodian bloggers: Rath and Ramanagal.
39. Vietnam Web Services Portal. Go Global! by me (Huyen Chip). I know I made bunch of mistakes but that’s the way I can learn. Thanks everyone for joining and supporting me.
40. How to collaborate with Google Docs by Thomas Wanhoff.
41. ???Info SEC by Nam
42. ????iPhone Dev and Echo-o by Quang Tran
43. Entrepreneurs Anonymous by Christopher Zobrist (VSVN)
44. Sáng tạo? Bạn đang nghĩ gì? by 2 extremely active high school students from Lê Hồng Phong (one of the best high schools in HCMC) Bình - An. They were the youngest orators at BarCamp Saigon 1, and I’m sure they’ll do much better when they reach our age.
45. How I use Second Life and Virtual Worlds in my class - Preetam Rai
46. ???Echo-o and Android Application





























