BarCamp is coming to the UK next month for two days and many are attending.
8th Rule: If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present.
Woah scary. I’m not the most experienced of public speakers nor the most confident so I’ve teamed up with Steve Marshall and we’re going to try and do a short presentation and then incite some sort of discussion. Rule 4 states that intros must only be 3 words, which at the moment means I’m working to the draft title ‘CMS Workflow Sucks’.
I’m not 100% sure if we’re allowed to/supposed not to talk much about presentation content beforehand, but since Steve and I are still just chucking ideas around there’s not much more to say that is in the title (maybe it’ll stick). Steve knows a lot about workflow, especially from a CMS administration point of view having built at least one large, bespoke CMS that included rather smooth multi-user workflow. I… well I just dislike the way Wordpress has a gazillion different views for managing comments.
From a desire not to be over-ambitious with the speaking side and from a little chat with Drew on the matter, I’m favouring a short two-part presentation. First explaining workflow and why it matters and why neglecting the administration side of your CMS or Web App is Bad™, followed by a small handful of examples (hopefully positive as well as negative). Then try to open it up for audience members to tell us how much we suck and that they like to see their comments displayed in subtly different and varyingly ineffective ways.
If anyone has done this before and would like to advise against such a format, comments are open.
Hoping to see you there. Is sleep expected at these things? Will there be XBox?
Ben is a 24 year old Web Developer from Cambridge and is a computing graduate of the University of Manchester.