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Brightbox at Barcamp Manchester UK 1 Mar 08

Barcamp Manchester

Jeremy and I went to Barcamp Manchester last Saturday - our photos are on Flickr as usual.  It turned out to be six months to the day since we went live with Brightbox too!

We ran a competition on the day: people had to tell us what they’d do with a Brightbox virtual machine and the best suggestion (as judged by us) kwould win a years hosting on one.  Throughout the day people wrote their ideas on post-it notes and we sifted through them at the end.

Here are some of the suggestions:

  • A service to archive scans of old maps for Open Street Map
  • Twitter wall app - @replies aggregated in the style of facebook’s wall-to-wall messages
  • Start a rails hosting company
  • Learn PHP
  • Hosting for Deb
  • Slowly ticking countdown timer to cause paranoia
  • App to mix samples from fiction books to make new fiction
  • Run a free hosting competition
  • Flame retardant killer robots
  • “Anything! They’re so flexible and scalable the possibilities are endless! We love Brightbox!”
  • “Dye your hair orange”

The winner was Chris Maltby, who said he’d use it to host a web-based multiplayer turn-based strategy game. This made our geeky senses tingle.

Rob Lee also suggested we open source our management tools - which we already do! I guess we just don’t make a big enough deal about it. Expect to see us making a bigger deal about it soon.

Posted 1 March 2008 by John Leach ::: Post a comment

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1 Comment

  1. 3 months ago Tim Dobson said:

    It was good that competition. I still find it funny remembering when that guy asked what you wanted the ideas to be about and Paul said something along the lines of “anything you want”!
    Looking forward to seeing you as Manchester Free Software Group

    -Tim

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