Author: alistair

Geek Party

This year we have a great community bar at the BarCamp venue so so have decided to open it up to all in the evening. If you want to join us for a drink or two, or three, or four then come along in the evening. Following the ethos of and supported by The Geekest

We have a silver screen

Did I mention that one of the benefits of being in a cinema is that we have a very large screen and flashy digital projector allowing us to show from a DVD or laptop? In the evening we will probably throw up a few films from sing-alongs to documentaries. If you have something you would

BarCampNorthEast4 in August?

We are provisionally looking in to hold BarCampNorthEast4 on either the 13th/14th or the 20th/21st or August at the Star and Shadow Cinema. This is is a different part of the same building the original BarCampNorthEast was held in in 2008. Lots of people have offered help in the past so if you can help please

BarCampNorthEast3 event sponsors announced.

We could not run a BarCamp without the kind support of out sponsors and we are all very grateful. The main event sponsors for BarCampNorthEast3 are the Yahoo! Developer Network, and the Centre for Life in tandem with the Newcastle Science Festival 2010. I urge you to take a look at our sponsors page to find out about them. Ian from

Getting to BarCampNorthEast3

With less than a week to go we are being asked about direction and parking. As promised here is a quick guide. Remember that it is the Life Lab entrance you are heading to that is next to the conference centre entrance. We also have a map online, and if you get lost then you can call us on 07767

Newcastle Science Festival 2010

Tomorrow is that start of the Newcastle Science Festival 2010 that we are linking up with this year. There are many great events on over the following week and 10 days that are fully documented on the Science Festival web site. We are especially looking forward to the UK Maker Faire this coming weekend at