Canterbury, UK – 30 March 2011: SciVisum is proud to be a sponsor of BarCamp Canterbury 2011. Deri Jones (CEO) and David Hobson (Web Testing Technician) will be presenting at the event, and other members of the SciVisum technical team will be on hand during the day.

BarCamp Canterbury is an unconference that is a completely free to attend and based loosely around the theme of: innovative, unusual, and amusing examples of information and technology. Being a Canterbury based company, with strong links to the Universities and keen proponents of world-class software development processes using the best open-source tools, the event was a perfect fit.

ScivVisum has provided both internships and industrial year placements for Canterbury students, as well as offering opportunities for graduates and PhDs to be involved in our Research and Development Team.

Speaking at the event on behalf of SciVisum will be:

Dave Hobson, Web Testing Technician, who will presenting a session called 'There's no way that can possibly go wrong oh wait yes there is.'

Dave has PHd in electronic engineering from the University of Kent, a degree in software development from the University of Huddersfield, and a great deal of experience in web development. He has lived in Canterbury for six years, although from manchester originally. Dave is running the Great Manchester 10k run on 15th of May, so any sponsors welcome!

Deri Jones, CEO, will be making two presentations: The Geek's Tale: The Story Of How To Set Up And Manage Hi Tech Businesses, and, Collision Course: Where User Experience And Technology Meet

BarCamp Canterbury is a technology conference with a difference. It's more like a gathering of enthusiastic people that are into tech, gadgets, science, or just about anything else that's geeky and fun. There will be plenty of entertaining sessions and workshops on the day, and when sessions aren't running, there's usually other fun stuff happening: food and drink, games, conversation, silliness, and people hacking on projects. You can go to any session you like, and if you don't find a session interesting, you can leave and go to another.

There is very little in the way of a formalised programme for the event and sessions will be finalised on the day. More information about how this works and how you can register to present will be released nearer the time.

The organisers are encouraging people to get in contact with us now about potential presentations, workshops, talks, or demonstrations they would like to give or they would like to hear. BarCamp presentatiosn are as formal or informal as tyhe presenters choose. Everyone is encouraged to give a session or participate in whatever way they can (asking questions, blogging, tweeting, taking photos).

There are no spectators, only participants!

Registration

For attendance details and to register please visit the registration page of the BarCamp website.

Location

The School of Computing at the University of Kent have very kindly offered to host BarCamp Canterbury on the 30th April 2011. We are very please to have such a fantastic venue at an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence in the field of Computing.

See here more information about the School of Computing: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/

For more information about traveling to the University of Kent and what facilities are available please see http://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/

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About SciVisum
SciVisum is a market-leader in dynamic website monitoring in the UK and internationally, with a blue-chip client list. As a testament to the constantly improving ‘Dynamic User Journey’ approach and intuitive portal, SciVisum delivers performance measurement and improvement to clients' business critical web-based systems and for their national and international networks. Through SciVisum’s testing and recommendations, clients can substantially increase visitor rates and customer satisfaction levels by achieving gains in key journey delivery times, increasing ability to handle peak load levels, and reducing error rates. www.scivisum.co.uk

About BarCamp

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees.

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers.

When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world

For further information, please contact:

web: http://barcamp.org/

email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

irc: freenode.net #barcamp

pibb: https://pibb.com/go/barcamp

mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp