Please use tag: barcamphouston
TOTAL SUCCESS!! - Thanks to our Sponsor's, the Venue, the Co-Hosts, the blogger's who got the word out, and most importantly THE PARTICIPANTS!
Podcasts
Businessmakers Extra #1: Barcamp Houston -http://www.thebusinessmakers.com/2006/06/22/businessmakers-extra-1-barcamp-houston/
Key Information
Date: June 10, 2006
Time: Starts at 10:00am until ???
Location:
Buddha Lounge
2670 Sage Road
Houston, Texas 77056
It's across the street from the Galleria Google Map
Are you attending? RSVP on the Upcoming.org website (BarCamp Houston on Upcoming.org)
Live Band at 3:00 PM
My favorite Band Rooster Crow will be performing at 3:00 PM, check out their website for more info and music samples: http://www.roostercrowtribe.com/
Contest
- Netsquared - Post your answers to the Netsquared questions on the netsquared set. http://www.netsquared.org. Best answers will recieve an iPod.
- The Businessmakers - Who are the Businessmakers in technology today? How are they making an impact. Win passes to SXSW 2007.
- Barcamp Design Contest - Design contest for the Bar Camp Houston web site.
Proposed Sessions
what do you want to hear, what do you want to say and what could you live without? Are you an expert in something cool? Is there some trend we should know about?
- Putting Houston on the Tech Map (literally) (EVERYONE -- Round Table Discussion)
- Leadership & Diversity in the Workplace - Calling All Managers - Don't Miss This Presentation - (Erica O'Grady)
- Podcasting for fun (and a little profit) -(Chris Doelle)
- DIY Hardware - remixing atoms
- Tech Tools Tutorial
- The Venture Capital Environment for Web 2.0 companies
- Lifehacks for beginners
- Local Blogging - (The MetBloggers?)
- New Media Concepts: User Generated Content, Podcasting, Tagging, Self-Publishing
- Web 2.0 Business Models -(Marc Nathan & Chris Bauman)
- Ruby on Rails for The Non-Techie (Keith Lancaster, Don Parsons, Kelsey Ruger)
- Is it Ugly: Why Simple Design is the new Black
- New Technology Under the hood: An Introduction to AJAX, Ruby on Rails and all things Web 2.0
- Getting Real: Developing new applications the Web 2.0 way
- Holistic Design: Building it faster, smaller, and cheaper
- Podcasting and The future of radio -(Russell Holiman, Chris Doelle & Kelsey Ruger)
- Design and Social Responsibility -(Chris Massey)
- Community Involvement: Refresh, Netsquared and AIR - (Chris Massey, Katie Laird)
- The Netsquared Questions: Technology and The Non-Profit - (Katie Laird?)
- Demystifying The Big Boys: Could You Build Flickr, Del.icio.us, BaseCamp or Upcoming?
- Mash-ups 101: Using Web APIs to build a new business
- Microformats and the future of Web content
- Top 10 Most Underused and Underhyped Web 2.0 Applications that ROCK - (Erica O'Grady)
- Blog Tool Showdown: Expression Engine vs. Wordpress vs. TextPattern vs. ModX
- Rails vs. ASP.NET 2.0 vs. Django vs. QCodo: What's the difference? What's the fuss
- Firefox, Flock, IE7: New Browsers and Web 2.0
- Open Source vs. Commercial: Can't we all just get along
- Web 2.1 : Making Web 2.0 Accessible (Chris Stelmak, Chris Massey)
- Deathproofing: can you ensure your personal web site survives your untimely demise? (Robert Nagle & )
- Content Networks: What's it all about?
- Blogging and College: Becoming for the college student
- Social Idea Generation: Are crowds really wiser?
- New Modes of Communication: From RSS to Jambo
- The XHTML/CSS Developer's Toolkit: Tools for the Trade - (Kelsey Ruger)
- Open Taxonomy : A Tag Browser/Editor to increase findability - (Ken Cooley)
- BarCampTexas/BarCampEarth Planning Panel - (Whurley)
- Open Management Consortium Presentation - (Whurley)
- Simple Business Workshop Houston - (Chris Bauman)
- Television 2.0 - (Rakesh Agrawal)
Campers
Camper Recruits
List people here that live in Houston and the surrounding area that should come to BarCampHouston:
Hosted By:
Sponsors:
Weblogs Work
Creativerse Internet Systems, LLC
Bulldog Financial
The Moleskin
Webxites
K-force
Innertee
Podcast Ready
Jambo
Knowbility
Would You like to volunteer?
We are looking for volunteers for the following committees. If you are interested, please add your name below the corresponding heading. Also, if you would like to handle a specific task put that beside your name in parenthesis.
- Operations: Will be responsible for setting up tables and chairs, posting signage, directing parking, and greeting newcomers. Additionally, we will need 1-3 people to volunteer as Keymasters throughout the day/night.
- Consessionary: Setting up and ordering food.
- Logistics: Responsible for room assignments. (I'll take care of the board and room assignments - Jay Fichialos)
In The News
- The Date of BarCamp Houston is
5-20-06 6-10-06. Put it on your calendar and we will see you there.
- We are planning to make presentations to local college CS/Tech departments about BarCamp.
- We are hoping to have an article in the Houston Press about a week before the event, and possibly one or two quick news spots on CBS or ABC (Marc knows a couple news producers there).
- DONE
Marc & I are meeting for lunch on Monday to further discuss Marketing Bar Camp in the Houston Area. If you are planning to attend BarCampHouston...or just considering it...please feel free to join us. We are meeting at: Wolf Gang Puck Express at 12:30 PM.
What We Need
- DONE
Logo - We need a distinctive Houston BarCamp Logo (maybe something that pays homage to the Astros for having such a great season this past year?) - Promotion - once the final date and location is set, we should get it to the right people - that means local bloggers (Metroblogging, blogHouston, htownblogs, etc.) podcasters, press (I'd love to see a Houston Press article)
- A well designed invitation - both print and email - check out the awesome BarCamp Austin Poster by Chris Messina
- Digital Projector(s) - I'll bring mine (I'll bring mine too - EO)
- Wifi Hotspots - Someone should as Rudy Prince at AlwaysON wireless as suggested above
- Power - Anyone remember how hard to come by the power was at SXSW?
- Food and snacks
- Toys - this was great fun at SXSW this year, a group brought tons of Legos that were donated afterwards to needy children - at least that's what the expectation was.
Carpooling from Dallas
Let's put together a carpooling group this time.
- Raven Zachary
Jim Kerr - I'm in Dallas and will probably rent a car for the trip. I can rent something big if people need a ride.
Anyone interested in Carpooling from Austin?
