As we found out yesterday the Viennese BarCamp audience are lazy travellers and not, unlike other nations, wandering like pilgrims from one BarCamp to another.
Nevertheless BarCamp Vienna was a great event and everyone interested in local Viennese yourfavoriteweb2.0buzzwordgoeshere projects, people, discussions, etc. is encouraged to join one of the upcoming BarCamps in Vienna. Since we aren’t going anywhere this’ll be the only possible way to get personally in touch with us.
One thing I definitely learned yesterday was that Open Space Technology is a brilliant method to initiate very productive discussions. Maybe it’s because of the participants, who else other than enthusiastic people decide to get up early and spend an entire Sunday at an unconference instead of relaxing at a pool, or is it because the self-organization makes most participants feel somehow responsible for the event and therefore they really try to get the best out of it?
Anyways, it’s a good concept and I wonder if OST can be successfully transferred to other topics in my field too, definitely worth a try.
Thanks to the organizers and werkzeugH, they did a wonderful job!
After organizing the long weekend trip – finally we decided to go to a friends weekend house at Balaton – I know now for sure that I’ll make it to the next BarCamp Vienna.
It’ll take place next Sunday June 10, 2007 at werkzeugH, starting at 10am with breakfast.
I’m pretty looking forward to it since I think it’s a good opportunity to meet up with a bunch of interesting people in a pleasant Sunday atmosphere.
Of course everyone is very welcome to drop by, but if you plan to do so, I think organizers will appreciate your entry in the participants list first.
Camino 1.5 was released today, a Mac OS X browser based on Gecko, the rendering engine behind Firefox and Mozilla. But unlike Firefox, Camino doesn’t feel like an alien on Mac OS X regarding visual appearance and features like access to the system’s Keychain to store passwords for instance.
One feature of Firefox which I couldn’t find in Camino’s feature list but as I just found out does work in Camino too are “search bookmarklets”. They work as follows:
E.g. for searching Wikipedia I save a bookmark with the location http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s and add the keyword wiki to it. Then I’m able to search Wikipedia by simply typing the word wiki followed by a blank and my search term into the address bar. %s stands as placeholder for the search term in the bookmark address. An easy and very convenient way to quickly access any available search site.
Another example: for quickly looking up a location in Google maps I assigned the keyword map to the bookmark http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s, so typing map mylocation into the address bar will return me a Google map showing mylocation.
In Firefox you can add a search bookmarklet for any searchfield you see on a website by a simple right click on the search field. Camino unfortunately doesn’t offer that, so I have to find the search parameters to create a valid search command for a specific website. Maybe it’s an upcoming feature of Camino.