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 attendees. It is an international network of user generated non-traditional social conferences— open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Oh and super fun!!

Event details

When
June 14-15, 2008
Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00PM then after party
Sunday 10:00 AM-1:00PM

Where
Seattle. Exact location is being worked on...we plan to nail it within the next two weeks!!

Where to stay?

  • We will provide options for places to stay once the venue is nailed down.
RSVP

Pick your poison:

Sponsors

  • Office Labs
Maybe:
  • Etelos
  • Liquid Planner

Need more!! Contact tarabrown@gmail.com

Donations needed (prefer in-kind donations)

  • Bottled water
  • Snacks
  • Saturday Breakfast (e.g. muffins & coffee)
  • Saturday Lunch (e.g. pizza or subs)
  • Saturday Dinner
  • Saturday evening event (prefer bar with alcohol!)>>McLeod's
  • Sunday Breakfast (e.g. muffins & coffee)
  • Sunday Lunch (e.g. pizza or subs)

Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.

Please use the tag barcampseattle for content related to this event

Who's blogging?

http://officenomads.com/blog
http://andrewwoods.net/blog

SCHEDULE

Day 1 - Saturday, June 14th, 2008

  • 10:00AM Check in & mingle
  • 10:30AM Morning sessions
  • 12:30PM Lunch
  • 1:30PM Afternoon sessions
  • 5:00PM Dinner
  • Party
Day 2 - Sunday, June 15th, 2008

  • 10:00AM Morning sessions
  • 12:30PM Lunch
Proposed Sessions

  • Working in Common Spaces (Jacob Sayles)
  • Social Productivity (Tara Brown)
  • Microformats and Social Network Portability (Tantek Çelik)
  • BodyOptimization (")
  • LifeCamp (")
  • Buildering (")
  • Community Driven Content (Sean Bonner)
  • The Future of Web Standards: HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2 (Jonathan Kern)
Tell us what you want to talk about or hear about! Some ideas:
  • Using Twitter to get better customer satisfaction
  • New or upcoming services
  • Mashups
  • OpenSocial
  • add a topic...

Participants (aka Campers)

  • Sean Bonner
  • Tantek Çelik
  • Philip Jeffries
  • Buster McLeod
  • Jonathan Kern
  • ..add your name!!

Planners/Volunteers

  • Brandon Martin Anderson
  • Tara Brown (Organizer Tigress)
  • Kevin Davis
  • Nic Fillingham (Channel 10, Videographer)
  • Brian Henderson
  • Bruce P Henry
  • Colin Henry
  • John Jenkins
  • Ryan McMinn (Organizer Puppet)
  • Lilia Paradis
  • Jacob Sayles
  • Daniel Scapa
  • Ankur Teredesai
  • Andrew Woods
  • Daniel Yoo

Volunteer Meetups

Conference Call #1-866-500-6738 Participant #519475

Where: Office Nomads Space (Address on http://officenomads.com )

When:
April 29 7:00pm-9:00pm (Done!! Great Turnout!!)
May 6 7:00pm-9:00pm (Done!! Great Turnout!!)
May 13 7:00pm-9:00pm
May 20 7:00pm-9:00pm
May 27 7:00pm-9:00pm
June 3 7:00pm-9:00pm
June 10 7:00pm-9:00pm

VOLUNTEER MEETUP #2
May 6, 2008 7:00pm - 8:45pm

Attendees

  • Tara Brown (Organizer Tigress)
  • Kevin Davis
  • Brian Henderson
  • Ryan McMinn (Organizer Puppet)
  • Jacob Sayles
  • Daniel Scapa
  • Andrew Woods
  • Daniel Yoo
Updated donations list:
Food
  • Bottled water for Saturday and Sunday
  • Saturday Snacks
  • Saturday Breakfast (e.g. muffins & coffee)
  • Saturday Lunch (e.g. pizza or subs)
  • Sunday Breakfast (e.g. muffins & coffee)
Other stuff
  • napkins
  • plates
  • cups
  • cleaning stuff (paper towels, trash bags, windex, etc,)
  • cleaning company ($150)
  • Name tags
  • Posters with Open Space principles
Swag
  • t-shirts (s, m, l). No logo on tshirt but can advertise in facility
  • slippers
  • Black silk jackets for Tantek
  • Red silk smoking jackets for organizers
Volunteer Jobs
  • Greeters
  • Minglers/Question Answerers/Facilitator to encourage panels
  • Scheduler sets it up on wall
  • Time keeper (horner)
  • Bouncers
  • Attendance list
  • Cleaners
  • A/V helper
  • Breakdown/lockup, etc.
Saturday evening event
*Sponsor drink tickets at McLeods >>From Buster McLeod: $4 for drink tickets good for well drinks and beer. He also said that it gets pretty crowded if there is more than 100 people at time.

Things Participants Should Bring

  • Powerbars (not the food)

VOLUNTEER MEETUP #1
April 29, 2008 7:00pm - 8:45pm

Volunteers

Tara Brown
- Organizer
- Attended http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/BarCampNYC3 and LOVED it
- Friends with original BarCamp creators and encouraged her. :)
- Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Brian Henderson
- Fred Hutch IT

John Jenkins
- Keep the Change
- Has product Synery by Design
- Has participated in lots of open space events

Daniel Yoo
- Microsoft Dynamics Live Services
- attended SXSW

Brandon Martin Anderson
- SWE for MetaCarta
- likes parties
- went to where camp
- member of Office Nomads works remotely

Jacob Sayles
- owns Office Nomads
- went to SXSW
- went to BarCamp in Austin
- went to Saturday House folks but they weren't super motivated

Ryan McMinn
- Microsoft Access
- owned a Ruby on Rails consulting company
- Tara's BFF :)

Colin Henry
- HP - enterprise software group
- made our logo
- wanted to organize barcamp for 2 years now
- none had momentum to drive it

Kevin Davis
- works at Microsoft
- attended Rubys user group in Ottawa

Lilia Paradis
- Microsoft SharePoint
- wants to attend BarCamp/FooCamp

Bruce P Henry
- Liquid Planner
- met Tara at SXSW and was threatened to attend

Andrew Woods
- G2 Web Services as PHP/UI developer
- Web developer on Open Source Perl and Php
- attends PHP Seattle Meetup

Daniel Scapa
Microsoft OneNote
- everything kewl happens in California

Dates

Decided on the following dates/times
June 14-15, 2008
Sat = (7am) 10am - 5pm (leave things and not have to clean up after except put stuff away)
Sun = 10am - 1pm (clean up after)

Facility Goals

  • Attendees: Goal = 200 but plan for 300
  • Have it in Seattle
  • Non Corporate facility
  • Free parking
  • Rooms 6 close together in same hallway
  • Away from other events
  • Whiteboard/Chalkboard nice to have
  • Flipcharts
  • Projectors in 4 rooms but ideally all
  • Backup is bring projectors (Tara=1, Bruce=1)
  • Hallway/Common are for schedule with rooms/equipment & times
  • Wireless & support people - Jacob will talk to Cascade Link & Metrics Communications . Also need to figure out budgets and if they can sponsor
  • Bathrooms
  • Kitchen nice to have
  • tables, chairs for food
  • Name Tags - Waggle Labs (Jacob)

Documenting

  • Use tags for Flickr, etc. (BarCampSeattle)
  • Use hashtags for Twitter #barcampseattle
  • Need to get photos and videos up quickly within 24 hours. Can we stream? Qik?
  • Photographer (Fwup = Colin Henry, Jacob Sayles )>> Update: Bill Moeller has agreed to photograph the event.
  • Videographer (Fwup = Tara Brown, Kevin Davis, Daniel Scapa) >>Update: Tara Brown contacted Nic Fillingham from Channel 10 and he is interested in doing the video
>>Kevin's roommate is at 70%

Sponsorship Ideas

  • Fuel sponsor coffee (Jacob)>> no news
  • Breakfast snacks (Jacob) >>contacted Mighty O Donuts no go. Will contact Grand Central Bakery
  • Breakfast snacks (Tara) >>Contact Essentials Baking Co.
>>Starbucks (Andrew)
  • Talking Rain (Tara)
  • Office Nomads (water cooler)
  • zipfizz sponsorship (Tara)
  • pizza or box lunches
  • Tara to talk to Jenn about a restaurant to sponsor food
  • Ankur to talk to Angels to give us in kind donations
  • Get beer/wine sponsor
>>Kevin will contact bunch of breweries/wineries
>>Jacob will call Sierra Nevada
>>Kevin/Jacob will call alternate venues to McLeods
  • Party at Mcleod Residence? >> Tara spoke with Buster and he said the capacity is 150 but gets kind of crowded after 100
  • RedFin (Daniel Escapa)
  • Zillow sponsor (Tara Brown) >>Alix Han is getting me a name
  • Get list of startups (Kevin Davis) >> here: http://seattle20.sampasite.com/blog/Seattle-Startup-Index-for-Decemb.htm (I'd only suggest contacting the first ~100, making sure to avoid dupes ;-)
  • Organizers party on Friday that is sponsored. Maybe we do the organizers/silverlight party at mcleods?
Facilities

  • UW (Ankur)
  • Seattle Central(Seattle Community College Central) (Ryan Mcminn)
  • Seattle U (206 296 6000) (Colin Henry) - No response as of 5/5
  • Art Inst of Seattle 206 448 0900 - Daniel Yoo
  • Seattle Pacific U 206 281 2000 - Andrew
  • Cornish College of the Arts 206 323 1400 - Jacob
  • UW - Research 600 Broadway #400 - 206 720 4340 - Tara Brown
  • Terry Westlake Microsoft facility - Daniel Escapa
  • Adobe - Jacob Sayles - Adobe Conferences
  • South Lake Union White building, old Navy Reserves. Navy Reserve Building - Andrew

Low Pri or Backup

  • Office Nomads - has limited capacity upstairs but has 5000 sqft basement (Jacob Sayles)
  • Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (Jacob Sayles)
>>apparently there complaints when this was used for another event

Fail/No Fit

  • University Heights Community Center (Bruce Henry) - FAIL (booked by church group already)
  • Northwest High School (Daniel Yoo) - FAIL (school still in session)
  • Near Sculpture Park (Bruce Henry) - FAIL ($$$$ and no availability)
  • Perkins Coie (Bruce Henry) - Not a fail, but also not a good fit after a short chat.
  • Seattle Community College North - FAIL (It's beside Northgate Mall)
  • Seattle Academy (Ryan Mcminn) - FAIL (That date doesn't work due to commencement and year end meeting, They are interested in future events though!!)
  • Tara to send info on how to describe event >>See top of Wiki page and look at barcamp main page
UW Hub

  • Commencement is June 14th. Is that a problem?
  • Need to check alcohol policy
  • Tara to sent Ankur list of requirements
  • UW Faculty Club - possibility for after party
http://depts.washington.edu/hubres/deptinfo.php
If we need 3-4 small rooms it would be:
per room (20-25):
$57 first 4 hrs
$14.40c each additional hr

*No overnights allowed. Have to be out by 22:30 for cleaning crews
*food – need form. Then you can get your own
*will need my dept/dean/chair to sign-off (Ankur can arrange that).


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