The Winners are…

November 14, 2011November 16, 2011 Joss Winn Announcements, Teams overview, prizes, winners

Here’s a quick overview of who came to DevXS and the winners of the Competitions. We’ll pull this together in a better/prettier way soon.

Nuts and Bolts

198 delegates http://devxs.org/event/2011/directory

37 Universities represented

26 Teams http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams

Final programme of events: http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Draft_Programme

£1500 in prizes http://devxs.org/event/2011/challenges

Winners

DevCSI Overall 1st Prize: Unofficial University Guide (Also won the Guardian Prize and Amazon cloud service vouchers) http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams#Another_Team

2nd Prize: Task for Chrome: http://ansimionescu.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/tasks-for-chrome/ (also won the Public Platforms prize)

3rd Prize: Roominate: http://awesome.dev-server.in/blog/

University of Lincoln Library Prize: Ook Nog: http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Ook_Nog

Lincoln LNCD group 1st Prize: Roominate (See above. Also won overall 3rd prize)

Lincoln LNCD group 2nd Prize: Mobile UCAS http://devxsteamrocket.wordpress.com/

Lincoln LNCD group Accessibility Prize: Mind Body Soul http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams#The_Cyberpeople

University of Lincoln School off Computing Prize (addressing Gender inequality in Computing): http://lncn.eu/sy3

University of Lincoln Social Research Centre (LiSC) Prize: Social Library App http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams#Team_MCR

University of Southampton Smart Research Frameworks 1st Prize: COSHH http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams#Team_Wallace

University of Southampton Smart Research Frameworks 2nd Prize: Globally Harmonised System http://lostinlincolndevxs.blogspot.com/2011/11/smart-research-framework-devxs.html

Cottage Labs Prize: Emanuil Tolev

3 Honourable Mentions:

Price Splitters: http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Ksplitters,
Intr: http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams#Team_3,
Find It: http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Teams#Team_RGU

Preparing the Engine Shed

November 11, 2011 Joss Winn Announcements

Most of the organisers are now in the Engine Shed getting the place ready. Here are a few pictures.

A few reminders

November 11, 2011November 11, 2011 Joss Winn Announcements reminders

Don’t read your email? Life live in social networks? Well, we hope this reaches you at the last minute. Here’s a note that was sent out last night…

This is the last email you will receive from the DevXS Team before you arrive. We promise!

We would like everyone to have a great weekend, so here are some very important things to consider:

You must bring your own computer. We do not have any laptops or PCs for delegates. Remember to bring a (short) ethernet cable, if you have one. There will be wifi, but we recommend bringing a cable (oh, and power supply!).

Free parking is available for the duration of the event. For this, you should use the university parking (not the hotel) and you must email us your car registration number before midday tomorrow (Friday). If we don’t get your registration number, you may be charged £3 for the whole event.

DevXS is a marathon development event. There will be a rest area on Saturday night but no beds. You are advised to bring a sleeping bag or blanket.

Here’s a simple map for getting to all the key DevXS sites by foot, train or car: http://g.co/maps/fwhru

If you’re doing a talk, please bring a VGA adapter.

That’s it! We can’t wait to see you all. If you have any problems you can email us (as always) at hello@devxs.org.

Thanks,
The DevXS Team

Conference profiles, Wiki and IRC

November 3, 2011 Joss Winn Announcements

Here’s an email that was sent out yesterday to delegates. If you registered for the conference you should have seen this in your INBOX. It’s an important message, especially if you want to travel to the conference by car or share a hotel room with someone specific on Friday night.

Hi {firstname},

DevXS 2011, the student developer conference, is only 8 days away. We’re putting the final touches on the last few details right now, but we’ve got a few things that we’d like to ask you to do and make you aware of. Here goes!

Firstly, if you haven’t done so already you can now update your profile at http://devxs.org/me/edit – make sure that what we know about you is right! You’ll need the email address and password you signed up with – if you’ve forgotten either of them just email us and we’ll get you back on track.

Secondly, and quite importantly, we need you to tell us if you’re arriving in a group (for example if a few of you are sharing cars) so that we can make sure we have enough car parking spots. We’d also appreciate if you could let us know if you want to share a hotel room on the Friday with anybody. You can find the conference directory at http://devxs.org/event/2011/directory if you want to see who else is coming from your institution. To let us know just hit reply and email us the details.

Thirdly, we’ve put a load of useful information on the conference Wiki at http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/Useful_Information on getting here, accommodation, network, what to bring and so-on. Give it a read if you’ve got any burning questions.

Finally, we’ve got a couple of new places for you to congregate and discuss things regarding DevXS. First of all is our Wiki where you can discuss ideas, data sources, teams and so on at http://2011.devxs.org. Secondly is our IRC channel (for those of you who remember IRC) at #devxs on Freenode. You can connect to chat.freenode.net, or chat through your browser at http://webchat.freenode.net. More help with IRC is on our Wiki. http://2011.devxs.org/wiki/DevXS_Chat

As always if you have any questions or problems please feel free to email us.

See you there!

The DevXS Team