{"id":599,"date":"2011-07-17T00:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/?p=599"},"modified":"2011-07-28T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T10:50:47","slug":"barcamp-auckland-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/2011\/07\/17\/barcamp-auckland-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcamp Auckland 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 300 of New Zealand&#8217;s brightest gathered in Auckland today for the <a href=\"http:\/\/bca.geek.nz\/\">Barcamp Auckland 5<\/a> unconference. As with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/2010\/07\/19\/barcamp-auckland-4\/\">BCA4<\/a> last year, it was all pretty well-organised for an unconference, though there was an unsettling lack of espresso coffee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_7880-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BCA5 nametag\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_7880-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_7880-1024x1000.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_7880.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was good variety in the various sessions I attended. One was on <a href=\"http:\/\/agilebits.com\/products\/1Password\">1Password<\/a>, a cross-platform password and information management tool. It looked useful, but quite heavyweight &#8212; there&#8217;s no easy way to use it on a computer unless you can run or install the 1Password program on it. Still, maybe a good solution to the problems of juggling dozens of website usernames and passwords.<\/p>\n<p>I also attended a live recording of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discourse.co.nz\/\">The Discourse Weekly Show<\/a>. Ben &#038; Morgan were pretty amusing, but the rough and ready setup and the general lack of microphone technique in the audience might not translate that well to the recorded result. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discourse.co.nz\/2011\/07\/episode-2-09bca-barcamp-special-live-show\/\">Listen to the show<\/a> if you don&#8217;t believe me.<\/p>\n<p>Other sessions I attended roughly covered the areas of productivity, society and development. I&#8217;ll write up my notes on them in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 300 of New Zealand&#8217;s brightest gathered in Auckland today for the Barcamp Auckland 5 unconference. As with BCA4 last year, it was all pretty well-organised for an unconference, though there was an unsettling lack of espresso coffee. There was good variety in the various sessions I attended. One was on 1Password, a cross-platform password [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-barcamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}