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Registration is open!
PLEASE HELP US PLAN! By pre-registering, we get an estimate of the amount of food, drink, etc that we'll need for the event.
Presenting at BarCamp is entirely voluntary. Registration does not oblige you to present.
Sponsors
Parking
Free, no-permit parking is at Vandenburgh Ave. and North Drive immediately in front of our meeting space, the Bulmer Telecommunications Center.
Meeting Room Configuration
We will have three meeting rooms plus an auditorium. Each space has an LCD projector connected to a computer kiosk with a Windows computer and a VGA & audio tether for connecting a laptop. Each meeting room will seat 40 with rows of tables and chairs for easy computing. Some rows will have table-top access to power outlets. View the floor plan including table organization and screen placement.
We will have Internet connectivity via HVCC's Guest WiFi network. The username and password will be posted at the event.
Meals/Food
Breakfast will consist of at least a selection of bagels from Uncommon Grounds and both regular and decaf coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Cream cheese, butter, peanut butter, and hummus will be available.
Lunch will consist of at least turkey subs and roast beef subs as well as a small selection of hummus/roasted red-pepper wraps and tomato/mozzarella wraps for vegetarians. All subs will have tomato, lettuce, and onions. All dressings (Italian, mayo, mustard) will be on the side. We'll also have a couple of vegetable platters and chips from our sponsor, PopChips.
A selection of sodas and water will be available all day.
Schedule
The schedule of speakers will be set by participants on the day of the event.
| 8:30 am |
Setup |
9:00
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Sign-in and initial scheduling
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9:45
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Welcome session and overview
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10:00 - 10:45
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First round (we have 3 available meeting rooms)
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| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Second round |
| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Third round |
1:00 - 1:45 pm
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Lunch
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2:00 - 2:45
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Fourth round
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| 3:00 - 3:45 |
Fifth round |
| 4:00 - 4:45 |
Sixth round |
| 5:00 - 5:15 |
Closing remarks |
| 5:30 - 5:45 |
Clean up |
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Event hashtag: #bcAlbany
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Proposed Talks
We welcome your ideas for topics that either you'd be willing to present on or that you'd like to hear presented
People have said they would be willing to present on...
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...and would like to hear someone else present on
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- jQuery
- Test-driven development (TDD)
- Clean Code
- .NET WCF 4.0 autodiscovery functionality
- Parallel programming in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 and beyond
- Physical computing/arduino to present information on a web page
- Learning secure coding in
academia? (intentional question mark)
- Things that suck/don't suck
- Droid programming
- Drupal
- Android
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- RUBY
- Rails 3
- MERB
- Ruby at the enterprise level -- not just massively scaled, but highly integrated, highly concurrent, highly transacted
- MongoDB
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Volunteers
If you'd be interested in volunteering your time for the event (either in planning or setup/clean-up on the day of), please email organizers [at] BarCampAlbany [dot] org
We'll need help signing people in, setting up food, clean-up, ensuring that sessions run smoothly, etc.
Get involved
Again, please contact organizers [at] BarCampAlbany [dot] org
Posters & Logo
If you'd like to help us promote the event, please feel free to use these files or to improve upon them.
