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April 29th, 2008 by Sean
BarCampBogotá (#1) is over. It’s done. It’s now a part of history.
A little over 50 people attended the event. We were more than happy to have that kind of turnout because we really didn’t know what to expect going into this. We were quite happy to have that many people attend.
We met some great people and heard some great talks. The best part: we now know that there’s interest and we’re already planning for a BarCampBogotá #2. BarCampBogotá #1 was a learning experience for use and now we know what to do…and even more importantly, what not to do! We definitely have to include more “movement” in BarCampBogotá #2. Because we had only one room for BCB#1, people were sitting for long periods of time. It’s physically tiring! For BCB#2, we’re going to do the following:
1: host the event in a place that has at least two (but hopefully more) rooms. This will allow people to choose between presentations. This will also mean that you’ll have to “get up” and move every 30ish minutes. I think this will help a lot.
2: pay strict attention to the time limits for each presentation. When presentations go on for too long, people get bored. We need people to present clearly and concisely.
3: include lunch. BarCamp is all about meeting people and networking (the people kind of networking). If we can provide lunch, everyone stays in one place and has the chance to talk. This is what BarCamp is about!
How about October for BarCampBogotá #2?
April 23rd, 2008 by Sean
We’re getting ready for BarCampBogotá! We spend a lot of time dealing with technology, so we thought it was high time for us to get more involved in the tech community here in Bogotá.
What exactly is a ‘BarCamp’?
February 7th, 2008 by admin
A decision has been made! We’re going to start using Amazon S3/ S3 Backup to back up all of the computers in our office. I had played around with Amazon S3 before using JungleDisk and that’s about it. But now that we’re creating gigabytes of data daily, I had to take another look. This time, though, I started playing around with S3 Backup. What can I say? It’s simple and it works. The big seller for me (ok, it’s actually free right now) is that it does incremental backups. I’ve installed it on two of our laptops and one of our recording workstations. So far, so good! It’s going to take at least a month for the workstation to back up to S3, but after that it should just be a nightly affair.
I am also going to take a look at BucketExplorer. We use an SFTP server right now for transferring files back and forth (most of our crew works from home) and I really have no complaints. But BucketExplorer looks like a fun toy, so I’ll have to check it out!
For our servers, we’ll continue with our current setup. Our main server provider, Servint, does daily backups and then we also do our own, completely separate, weekly backups via FTP.
February 1st, 2008 by Sean
With an ever growing amount of data, we’re always thinking about backups! We’ve used several different services (Carbonite, Mozy, StrongSpace, BQBackup, and Exavault just to name a few), but backing up online is not the best solution when you’re dealing with 100’s and 100’s of GBs of data. We’ve filled up several hard drives, copied those hard drives and then stored them in several locations. This is also a bit of a pain, but a necessary pain! (Just to be clear, we’re not talking about our servers. The servers are backed up to several locations. We’re talking about backing up everything that we have in in offices.) We’re doing a bit of research this week to figure out how best to back things up. Here’s a question for you: what’s your backup solution? What would you suggest we use for a backup solution? Any great ideas?
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