Posts Tagged #PBCN10
Daliy Vitamin at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programme, Speakers Corner on September 16, 2010
Matthew Ray arrived in Barcelona 15 years ago and since then he has been “obsessed” with the English problem in Catalonia and the rest of Spain. His dream is for everyone in the Spanish state who needs English to be able to reach their desired level, and therefore avoiding the further loss of personal and professional opportunities.
He’ll explain what the Daily Vitamin by Ziggurat English Services is and how he has used it to create a “pre-web 2.0” community with people interested in improving their English; he’ll demonstrate why this type of project and other web resources are key if Catalonia (and Spain) want to overcome their “genetic defect” with English.
Finally, he will offer a few suggestions about how companies and public administration can make their language-training budgets more efficient and effective.
Quick post for a relaxed lunch
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, Logistics, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010 on September 10, 2010
Back on track: would you like to stay for lunch? Yes? Brilliant, tell us as soon as possible and we'll organize the lunch. The price is 15€ p/person Is that all right? Important: each one pays his/her own lunch.
Geoforum – Putting PodCamp Barcelona on the map!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona 2010 on September 7, 2010
What is Geoforum?
Geoforum is a versatile participatory online geolacalisation tool. Built on the geolocalisation system of Google Maps, it enables points to be added to the map of a specific geographical space (neighbourhood. city, county, region etc) and each point is linked to a discussion forum to where opinions can be shared and additional information such as photos or videos can be added.
Putting PodCamp Barcelona on the map
To add your info about the home of PodCamp Barcelona, El Masnou, click here and start geolocalising!
Cava Berdié: 5 Cavas for 5 solidarity projects at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programa on September 3, 2010
We will analyze the impact of the solidarity campaign '5 Cava for 5 solidarity projects' for the services offered by Cava Berdié in wine tourism.
First of all we will explain the basis of this project, intimately related to one of the fundamental elements that drives Berdié in every action since its creation; the will to help, shown in this project as a solidarity initiative that will dedicate 7% of the sale profits (sales via Internet, telephone or at the winery itself) from five Berdié cava to five solidarity projects.
Second, we'll explain the motivation behind this project, related to another fundamental elements of Berdié: the will to offer another way of looking at the world of cava. To that end, Berdié has invested, and thus improved, the winery infrastructure, where now all cava fans can visit and enjoy this product, while at the same time carrying out several activities unusually related to wine tourism, like cooperating with five NGOs.
Confirmed: ¡At the session's end we can taste a cava! See you there 
Civico streaming at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, Logistics, PodCamp Barcelona 2010 on August 31, 2010
We are pleased to announce that the live streaming of PodCamp Barcelona will be on the Civico platform.
About Civico
Civico is a practical online democracy engagement platform.
We specialise in enabling local councils and public-facing organisations, through their meetings conferences and events, to actively engage with citizens.
Technology and the social web are changing democracy, opening up the process, and enabling citizens in dialogue and delivering greater access and transparency. Civico brings the conversation together to share the stage.
Our creative passion for democracy is at the heart of everything we do. We are inherently inquisitive about new approaches and practices for democratic participation; constantly monitoring the latest advances in technology and trends to ensure we provide the most compelling and effective service.
We are always innovating to move forward the Civico system: blending expertise, experience and a dedicated live events team, to provide you with a complete system.
Can you Tweetlate?
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, Logistics, PodCamp Barcelona, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, PodCamp Barcelona model, Tweetlation on August 19, 2010
After the success of last year’s “Tweetlation” project, where @Moof provided near-real-time translations of the PBCN Twitter feed on @PBCNTweetlation , we’re hoping to enlarge it this year. We’re putting together a group of volunteer translators who will be translating all the tweets coming through on the #pbcn10 hashtag. That way everybody will be able to share in the Podcamp backchannel, regardless of language.
This is where we need your help: We’re looking for two or three people willing to do tweetlations (or, presumably, twitducciones) from English to Spanish/Catalan, so you can help out @Moof and @pdavenne who are going to be tweetlating from Spanish/Catalan to English. You don’t need excellent English, just enough to understand the thrust of most of the tweets, and you can always ask the English speakers for help with particular words.
Translating tweets is an interesting challenge, as you need to keep it within the 140 character limit, but it’s significantly easier than translating huge paragraphs of text, and immensely rewarding.
So why not give it a try? Contact us through the contact form, or tweet @PodcampBCN and we’ll get back to you about doing it.
Drumbeat Festival at PodCamp Barcelona
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programme on August 12, 2010
Alina Mierluș and Enric Senabre Hidalgo , members of the local committee for the first Drumbeat Festival, to be celebrated in Barcelona from November 3rd to 5th, will explain the origins and philosophy that lies behind this new initiative driven by the Mozilla Foundation.
The Drumbeat platform is born as a new online projects community, with the aim of publicizing and support initiatives that protect and improve the Internet as a public and open, participative and decentralized resource.
Based on this initiative, the First Drumbeat Festival is posed as an international, participative meeting that will reunite in Barcelona diverse and pioneering technology initiatives, open and innovative, on education and learning, based on the message "Learning, Freedom and the Web".
New roads for publishing at PodCamp Barcelona
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona, Programme, Publishing, Workshops on August 12, 2010
New roads for publishing aims to find a dialogue space to discuss a question that is driving everyone crazy in the industry:
What the hell is going on?
The publishing market is in a considerable mess, and has been for quite a while. As an example we can see what happened when Amazon recently published certain data (in a press release). From one data item (the already famous 143 sold e-books for every 100 hardcovers), it reached the point where it was claimed that there were more e-books sold than paper books (such as in the article on B&N in el País ).
We are undoubtedly in a time of change, and book publishing, and even more critically magazines and newspapers publishing, must adapt.
That is what we will talk about: what can we do with the coming storm. We'll talk about the options offered by new tech, and if at all possible we'd love to avoid talking about the sad loss of the smell of a new book or of the happy and full live of the tree that will be saved from death to publish the latest best-seller.
That's not the idea. What we want is to see the new opportunities awaiting us there, for readers, publishers, authors and all those interested in the universe of writing, to create and read better works, far more rich and interactive than what we were used to.
Without pretending to set limit to the conversation (from 6 to 8pm, although if we are in the mood it can be extended… forever), we'd like to pose some items that are possibly interesting (if they aren't, there you have the comments, and this post can be edited):
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Literary creation and new technologies (just an example: Electronic literature collection v1)
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Epub, Mobi, Kindle, iPad… whatever is going on with the formats? (also, why it seems to be so difficult to use several formats for the same work, as the Pigs, Gourds and Wikis post can demonstrate)
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Community literature, with an without a main author (such as http://www.elbazardeloslocos.org/, a fairly recent initiative to publish a book written through Twitter w/ #bazarlocos)
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The paper is not dying or what's with all the fuss: POD and new value paths without print runs and permanent availability.
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Oh, I just inserted a video in the book. Is it still a book? Who cares?
@pdavenne awaits you at El Masnou on September 15th, at 6PM, to talk until 8PM, and further if it feels like it… ¡Cheers!
Dominic Campbell at PodCamp Barcelona!
Posted by pbcn in #PBCN10, PodCamp Barcelona 2010, Programme on August 9, 2010
Dominic will be talking at PodCamp Barcelona about the work he is doing in the UK and the US on the best practice and the future of Gov20, talking about the work of those involved in communications and engagement through to collaboration across government to public service transformation to social innovation.
Dominic is a digital government and social innovation entrepreneur with a background in government policy, communications and engagement.
Having spent 5 years in local government, Dominic established FutureGov in early 2008. FutureGov supports central and local government in the UK to better understand and draw on social technology in the areas of digital democracy and public service innovation.
Dominic is also co-founder of social web start-ups Enabled by Design, a dot org social start up and winners of the inaugural Social Innovation Camp, and TweetyHall, helping people to find and connect with their local politicians on social network site Twitter.
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