BarCamp Sydney 4: Photos

Attendees who wished to present at BarCamp simply added their name to this list; the 'unconference' spirit cut all the formality out of organising a conference.

Silicon Beach Australia organiser Elias Bizannes holding an OLPC laptop brought to the conference by Pia Waugh.

Open source specialist Pia Waugh during a presentation on the current status of the OLPC project in Australia.

The unconference didn't reach World Youth Day proportions. Maybe next time.

The laptop of choice at BarCamp was the MacBook — or ASUS' Eee PC.

Not all of the talks dealt with mundane technological matters.

Microsoft software evangelist Nick Hodge and local technology consultant Kate Carruthers.

Similar conferences are in the works.

Spellr.us founder Kevin Garber tells the audience about the start-up's experiences attending the TechCrunch50 conference in the US earlier this year.

Open source evangelist and consultant Jeff Waugh (he's also married to Pia).

The "mind hacking" session kicks off, hosted by a trained hypnotist (we didn't get her name).

The hypnotist's husband helps out with the presentation.

Developers, developers, developers.

Laptops were never far from hand.

A group of volunteers about to be hypnotised.

The presenters ranged the full gamut from the technical to interpersonal skills.