BarCampPortland is an unconference for the Portland tech community, produced BY the Portland tech community. Interesting topics, cool people, great networking opportunities, wifi, and more! Building an active tech community in Portland, Oregon.
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.
This video does a great job of explaining the idea behind BarCamps and how they work.
What to do now
Volunteer: If you’d like to get involved with planning and preparations, please contact Amy Farrell (amykfarrell on gmail).
Sponsor: These events can’t be successful without our sponsors. Contact Dawn Foster (geekygirldawn on gmail) if you’re interested in sponsoring BarCamp.
1. Getting young women (as early as middle school) involved in science, math, computers and technology
2. I can talk for hours about exploratory data analysis, the R programming language, and other nifty things to do with numbers on a computer. "Getting Started with R" is a working title.
3. Linux, of course -- what's new in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, does Linux *really* suck?
4. Twitter tools -- what do you use? why? what would you pay hard cash for?
5. eMarketing for really small businesses. I think Dawn's Yahoo Pipes demos are a sample of the sort of thing you can do for little outlay, but I'm thinking about places like the coffee shop where I hang out in Aloha, hair salons, etc. They *might* be able to afford a part-time consultant to come in and get them started, but they don't have the time to invest in continuous monitoring, analytics, live tweeting, etc.
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Comments (5)
Anonymous said
at 5:24 pm on May 16, 2007
I think the link to the Portland BarCampers is incorrect. It points to a list that doesn't include many people who were there.
Anonymous said
at 8:48 am on May 19, 2007
Frank, click on the link for BarCampPortland1 at the bottom of the page to see the attendees for that event. http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland1
John Abbe said
at 11:14 pm on Oct 19, 2008
FYI, BeaverBarCampII is November 16.
Curtis C. Chen said
at 12:51 am on Apr 30, 2009
This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day ( http://www.freecomicbookday.com/ ). Anybody interested in going out at lunchtime?
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky said
at 5:35 am on May 1, 2009
Some more potential topics:
1. Getting young women (as early as middle school) involved in science, math, computers and technology
2. I can talk for hours about exploratory data analysis, the R programming language, and other nifty things to do with numbers on a computer. "Getting Started with R" is a working title.
3. Linux, of course -- what's new in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, does Linux *really* suck?
4. Twitter tools -- what do you use? why? what would you pay hard cash for?
5. eMarketing for really small businesses. I think Dawn's Yahoo Pipes demos are a sample of the sort of thing you can do for little outlay, but I'm thinking about places like the coffee shop where I hang out in Aloha, hair salons, etc. They *might* be able to afford a part-time consultant to come in and get them started, but they don't have the time to invest in continuous monitoring, analytics, live tweeting, etc.
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