Bar Camp Portland 2 on May 2, 3, & 4
Location: Cubespace
622 SE Grand Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
CubeSpaceParking
Don't forget to follow http://twitter.com/barcampportland on Twitter for real-time updates during the event!
IRC chatter is also available for those inclined at irc://irc.freenode.net/#barcamp
Site for Schedule and Notes is at http://moourl.com/bcpdx
What is BarCampPortland? -- Portland Geek Culture
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.
Where to stay?
http://www.traveloregon.com/Explore-Oregon/Portland-Metro/Places-To-Stay.aspx
http://www.hostelhandbook.com/usa/orport.htm
Looking for someone to stay with
- John Abbe (Fri & Sat nights, maybe Sat only)
- 206.427.2545 Lion Kimbro -- arriving Portland ~9:25 PM @ Greyhound website google
- add your name / contact info here
Have space for someone to stay
- add your name / contact info here
What to do now
- Donate & Get a t-shirt we don't have enough sponsorship dollars to cover the t-shirts this year, but you can get a t-shirt with a donation to BarCampPortland! Orders must be placed by April 26.
- RSVP for the event on Upcoming; edit this page and add yourself to the "Campers" section to help us learn more about you
- Sponsor! These events can't be successful without our sponsors. Contact Selena Decklemann (selenamarie on gmail) if you would like to sponsor a portion of the event.
- Join our Mailing List: Sign up for our Google Group to get email announcements about future meetups and events.
- Tell your friends: Don't forget to use the BarCampPortland tag when blogging, posting pictures, etc.
Sponsors
Thank you to all our generous sponsors this year.
A banner with all the logos is coming soon!
Organizing Committee
- Dawn Foster - Organization, meetings, etc.
- Selena Decklemann - Lining up sponsors. Finding and publishing a place to post notes from sessions, etc.
- Audrey Eschright - Coordinating food / catering. Scheduling: post-its, schedule board / framework
- Raven Zachary - Logistics and volunteer round-up, coordinating registration desk volunteers
Mara Collins: KidCamp on Sunday so that people can bring kids? KidCamp isn't going to work at CubeSpace. We'd need to hold it somewhere else.- Adam Duvander - t-shirts
- Todd Kenefsky - Hanger on.
Rough Agenda
Friday, May 2 (aka No Pants Day)
6:00 - 7:00pm: Registration / Networking
7:00 - 7:30pm: Kickoff
7:30 - 10:00pm: Session Planning / Agenda Setting (maybe some werewolf?)
Note: If you want to present or have input into the agenda, Friday night is your chance!!
Saturday, May 3
9:00 - 9:30am: Breakfast / Networking
9:30 - 10:00: Morning kickoff
10:00 - 12:45: Sessions
1:00 - 2:00: Lunch
2:00 - 6:00: Sessions
6:00 - 7:00: Dinner
7:00 - 11:00: Evening activities TBD
Sunday, May 4
9:00 - 10:00am: Breakfast / Networking
10:00 - 2:00: Sessions
2:00 - 3:00: Wrap-up (and clean up)
Session Notes
- Taking notes, and then publishing them, is strongly encouraged. Last year I ran a Moonedit server - this year I'm running both a Gobby Server (Sobby) and a Moonedit server. Either of these allow for simultaneous real time multi-user editing. If you have any issues or questions, @lokkju on twitter.
- Gobby (http://gobby.0x539.de/)
- Open Source, and Free
- Available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX.
- Windows Binaries are on the web site
- Linux users install via Apt or RPM
- Mac users can find it in MacPorts or Fink (there are reports that MacPorts Gobby does not build on Leopard)
- Moonedit (http://www.moonedit.com/indexen.htm)
- Free, but not open source
- Available for Linux and Windows
- Binaries for both platforms are available on web site
Possible Topics
- Who are we? Exploring the Portland tech community
- Bread, cheese, and beer: fun with cultured and fermented foods
- Does this include kimchi?
- "Fringe" Languages (Haskell, Erlang, Scala, R, ...)
- Exploring the intersection between design and geekdom (in hopes of bringing the two worlds closer together.) When you should think like a designer, and when as a geek? Also: typography.
- I’m looking for partners in crime/collaborators... -- BramPitoyo
- Should the Type stuff get split out into a separate session? Either way I'll help. -- KellyGuimont
- I’m not entirely prepared to a session, so let’s collaborate on the type thing. I’m thinking that a Fontstruct workshop might be fun? Then I could tackle the history and you the technology/management. -- BramPitoyo
- I'm thinking about a "Let's talk DSLRs" session. I can talk general stuff, and Canon. Would be cool to have some Nikon users chime in as well. ScottKveton and LyzaDangerGardner suggested a photowalk. Sounds good to me -- AaronHockley. I can talk Olympus -- WmLeler.
- Photowalk idea: Cinco de Mayo festival downtown, specifically at dusk for the nice amusement ride lights, perhaps Saturday? Caveat: it does require walking into downtown over the bridge. --LyzaDangerGardner
- Wagn demo. Also, Venn interface, and generally wondering why cool visualizations don't allow editing and what to do about it. --JohnAbbe
- BIKES -- SelenaDeckelmann
- Cyclo-cross training this summer, total newb looking advice, riding partners BrandonPhilips
- What Tech Women Want recording session -- SelenaDeckelmann
- Where are the bottlenecks in your application? Processor? Memory? I/O? How did you solve it?
- Excellent OO design. Roundtable discussion -- JohnWatson
- Online Community Management - a roundtable discussion for people who currently manage or are interested in managing online communities. We can talk about building, managing and promoting online communities. -- DawnFoster
- WordCampPortland - Sessions focused on WordPress as a blogging platform and CMS. These will be on Sunday. Potential topics (these are just ideas that need discussions/leaders - feel free to add your name or add your own session):
- must-have plugins
- plugin development
- theming/CSS
- OpenID - AaronHockley
- Driving traffic to your blog
- SEO
- Copyright/content theft
- Wordpress as a micro-blog platform, challenges and solutions - BrandonPhilips
- Linux app developers share your pain points! Fishing for topics for Linux Plumbers Conf BrandonPhilips
- Intro to PostgreSQL: migrating from other DBs, tools and your questions - SelenaDeckelmann
- Intro to Seaside (the Smalltalk Continuation-based Web Framework) - the next Ruby-on-Rails - RandalSchwartz
- What are the options for an inexpensive web presence? -- JimTyhurst, CraigFisk
- A discussion of KnitML anyone?
- CitizenJournalism: Some examples, what's the potential, if you're doing it why not join in to discuss -- BobUva
- Scales and Scalability - Steve Koenig talking about how to scale services on the cheap
- Gutter Balls 4 Obama - blind-folded Wii bowling for the politically inclined.
- A SixHourStartup Experience - JohnSechrest
- GnomePal: drupal project for community sites - JohnSechrest
- The TechStartup Cycle in the NW - JohnSechrest
- PendingExcitingConcepts Waiting for Traction ChuckLangenberg
Campers
PLEASE RSVP on Upcoming to help us plan for things like food and space!
DawnFoster
AudreyEschright
ToddKenefsky
RavenZachary
ChrisBrentano
BartMassey
BrandonPhilips
AaronHockley
GrantKruger
TheresaPridemore
AdronHall
SamKeen
KrisAmundson
ReidBeels
KevinScaldeferri
SarahDavies
SamLivingstonGray
BramPitoyo
DonnieBerkholz
AbrahamHyatt
JohnAbbe
AkshayDodeja
WmLeler
NickJacobsen
PatrickSullivan
ElizabethGrigg
JohnWatson
RamiKassab
DominickRadominski
LanceAlbertson
RickTuroczy
LarryLeach
RandalSchwartz
MarinoDuregon
ChuckLangenberg
NickWelch
JimTyhurst
CraigFisk
DrewKalina
LyzaDangerGardner
DaveRevell
JoeCohen (Fri & Sun only)
GregLundChaix
KamalFariz
BobUva
DavidMandel (Fri & Sat only)
Kristin Wolff (Fri & Sat only)
Pete Forsyth
Lynn Fredricks (Sat & Sun only)
CameronAdamez
Stay Connected
Take a look at the Flickr photos from past meetups and events.
Check out other Portland-area technology communities at PDXgroups.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
BarCampPortland1, May 11-12, 2007
DemoCampPortland1, May 12, 2007
Contacts
DawnFoster & AudreyEschright
Comments
OMG I love the 2008 logo! Kudos -PatrickSullivan
I love the logo too. MobiWatcher in Eugene
