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BarCampAlbany

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Saturday

19 February 2011
  9am - 5:30pm (setup at 8:30am)

Bulmer Telecommunications Center (BTC) [virtual tour]
Hudson Valley Community College
80 Vandenburgh Ave., Troy, NY 12180 [Google Map]

Parking is at Vandenburgh and North Drive.

 

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

Tech Valley Ruby Brigade The Capital Region's Ruby User Group
INOC: Independent Network Operations Consortium Virtual ISP, data center, co-location, and network services 
Enable Labs Rails developers in Troy, New York
Comp.Romiser.com Ethical security and data recovery specialists
Celery Fax-to-email and email-to-fax services

Hudson Valley Community College

Department of Computer Information Systems

Our local SUNY community college and host
O'Reilly Media Publisher of technical titles and ebooks
PopChips Source of fine potato snacks
Apress Publisher of technical titles and ebooks

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. All three meeting rooms have whiteboards (and we'll have some markers on-hand), but in the middle room, the projection screen covers the whiteboard.

View the floor plan including table organization and screen placement.

Internet Access

  We will have connectivity via HVCC's Guest WiFi network. The username and password will be posted at the event. We may also have some Clearwire 3G WiMax devices available for inspection/testing.

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. Although the bagels are made in a facility that handles nuts, we've requested that no nut-based bagel flavors be included.

  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. There will be no seafood or pork products.

  Water and a selection of sodas 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
Sign-in and initial scheduling
9:45
Welcome session and overview
10:00 - 10:45
First round (we have 3 available meeting rooms)
11:00 - 11:45 Second round
12:00 - 12:45 Third round
1:00 - 1:45 pm
Lunch
2:00 - 2:45

Fourth round

3:00 - 3:45 Fifth round
4:00 - 4:45 Sixth round
5:00 - 5:15 Closing remarks
5:30 - 5:45 Clean up

Twitter Feed
Event hashtag: #bcAlbany
@AlbanyBarCamp

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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...
...and would like to hear someone else present on
  • 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
  • RUBY
  • Rails 3
  • MERB
  • Ruby at the enterprise level -- not just massively scaled, but highly integrated, highly concurrent, highly transacted
  • MongoDB

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.