So, we’re meeting on Saturday, at 9:00 at AUA and starting to fill in our presentations titles on the whiteboard schedule. If you’re not going to do a presentation (shame on you), you may come at 10:00, when the official opening will take place.
The presentations will start at 11:00 till 18:00. Parallel to the presentations, we’ll have several workshops, Linux Install Fest and a small job fair in a separate room.

Later in the evening, most likely some people will form a group to go and watch the Armenia-Russia football match altogether. Regardless of the match outcome we’ll promise not to drink too much because… on Sunday we’re coming at 10:00 sharp again. Some very interesting presentations by our guests are expected. We’ll organize some closing ceremony at 17:00 and start cleaning up the space. We’ll start preparing for our great afterparty that’s scheduled at 19:00, the location will be announced soon. And, be sure, you won’t wanna miss it ;)

By the way, if you are preparing a presentation and would like to show it to us, receive some feedback and advises, you’re welcome to join us at the Friends Bar on Friday 20:00, where we’ll be gathering together with organizers, volunteers, guests and start preparing for our busy weekend.

Here’s the preliminary schedule.

Since there are many professionals in various IT-related fields getting together at BarCamp, who might be looking for (new) jobs, and since there are some IT companies that are willing to recruit new skilled employees, we have decided to organize a small job fair, where interested companies can present their vacancies to the interested people. There will be a dedicated room where the companies can post their announcements and interested applicants can leave their resumes. Register now and attend!

All those geeks who like to checkin in various geo-location services can come and perform their beloved ritual at the big Foursquare banner in the BarCamp venue. Let’s gather there right after the official BarCamp opening. If there will be at least 50 people to checkin within 3 hours, we all will get the Swarm badge for the first time in Armenia!

BarCamp EVN <3 Foursquare!

During a workshop at the BarCamp Yerevan 2011 Charles McCathieNevile of Opera Software and W3C will tell us how to create Web applications using open web standards. We will also learn what to consider when creating cross-platform applications that work equally well on desktops, tablet PCs, phones, TVs and other devices with Internet access. Such applications are not based on proprietary software, but on open standards like HTML5, W3C Widgets, WAC, SVG.

Participation in the seminar is free, but it will be most useful for those who are at least familiar with HTML and JavaScript. We also recommend that you come with laptops to have an opportunity to practice coding. Source code of all examples, demonstrated at the Barcamp Yerevan, 2011, will be available for everyone after the event.

Apart from the workshop, chaals will also speak on “The magic of modern web standards” – about the usage of open platforms and tools like HTML, CSS and Java to create complex content, for which some “heavy” graphics and Flash are still widely used. The presentation will be accompanied by a large number of illustrative examples.