In general , CampusCamp is a BarCamp for educational institutions, targeting specifically the people inside the educational institution itself, such as undergraduates, postgraduates, staff, and lecturers. The goal is to get these people to start sharing whatever they know, love, or doing.
Not much. The only major difference is the target audience. CampusCamp target only members inside the educational institution itself. External audience are allowed to attend, however, only if the college allows it, and CampusCamp will limit the number of sessions available for talks given by external people.
The reason of the limit is so that we could give way for more talks by the members of the educational institutions itself. It is also to make it easier for the students who are organizing CampusCamp to handle the audience.
CampusCamp primary goal is to nurture the culture of sharing inside educational institutions. By encouraging sharing, we hope give birth to local special interest groups, increase communication and relation between students and staff with regard to knowledge, who knows, probably we'll raise the average quality level of graduates and the college too.
Considering CampusCamp idea comes from a FOSS person, its a deception to say that there are no FOSS agenda here. Through nurturing the culture of sharing inside colleges, we also hope that some the special interest groups which might got born through CampusCamp are related to FOSS in one way or another. We hope these people will be the new groups of contributors in the FOSS world and ecosystem, increasing the amount of contributors in this region.
The very first CampusCamp was held last Saturday (19th Nov 2011) at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. It was a trial run for the team who are inside that college, so its was a small poorly promoted event. We managed to get 15 attendees which consist of a group of students, a group of alumni, and interestingly, 1 technician, with 8 talks presented.
It was a good trial run and the team seems to kind of get the hang of it now. The next CampusCamp UTP is tentatively scheduled on February or March 2012.
Anybody can organize a CampusCamp. Our logo, name an format are open for anybody to use as long as it follow the spirit of CampusCamp and BarCamp. If you are a student in any educational institutions, it would be great if you can organize one at your place. Visit the CampusCamp site at http://campuscamp.org for more details and guide on how to organize your own.
Here is a little guide for those who want to add a simple popup to the Plone frontpage for some purpose (eg: announcements, advertisements, etc).
Create a basic html file containing the content you want to appear in the popup. Upload it into $PLONE_SITE/portal_skins/custom (as Page Template) and for the sake of this example, name it popup.html
Also upload this file into $PLONE_SITE/portal_skins/custom (as Page Template too). For this example, name it as popup.js
A little hack for python coders out there who wanted to have a functionality similar to the unix's tee command for redirecting output to multiple places.
In Inigo, we believe in helping out local FOSS communities and help them grow. We help out in community events where we can, present FOSS talks, and provide some platforms for local communities to grow. One of such platform is our consolidated community site infrastructure on Plone.
The system/infra and its components was originally developed for the Fedora Malaysia website, while keeping in mind to keep it generic enough so that other communities could use the same components for their own community sites. The infra is already at a usable state, and we can add new sites easily with just a few clicks.
Document/Content management (Plone built-in)Calendar system (powered by solgema.fullcalendar addon)Conference/BarCamp system (powered by collective.conference addon, which was developed for FUDCon Kuala Lumpur 2012)Blog (powered by Products.Scrawl)Simple yet powerful theming engine (powered by plone.app.theming/ Diazo) - Check out Diazo, you'l…
A system/solution engineer with passion in Free / Open Source software, entrepreneurship, community building, education and martial art. I take enjoyment in bridging and bringing together different FOSS technologies to help businesses and organizations utilize IT infrastructure to aid and optimize their business and organizational process.