BarCampBirmingham2

Dates: April 12, 2008

Locations and times:

• BarCampBirmingham Friday night party / dinner / drinks mixer
  • April 11th, 8 to 11 PM
  • Jim 'N Nick's Barbecue, 1908 11th Ave S, Birmingham, AL / Google Maps (we have reserved their back room)

 

• BarCampBirmingham main event

  • April 12th, 9 AM to 3 PM

  • Innovation Depot, 1500 1st Avenue North, Birmingham, AL / Google Map

  • Upcoming Event Page: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/440570

 

We have started planning the second BarCampBirmingham. Keep an eye on this page for more information as it becomes available.

What Is BarCamp?

Here is some information for first-timers.

• What is BarCamp?
• What to expect at a BarCamp
• The Rules of BarCamp

Get Involved

• Join the BarCampBirmingham Google Group
• Participate in BarCampBirmingham2Planning
• Blog about BarCampBirmingham2
• Join the BBarCampBirmingham Flickr Group
• Join the BarCampBirmingham Facebook Group
• Tell your friends WhyBarCampBirmingham2
• Follow BarCampBirmingham on Twitter
• Propose sessions

Proposed Sessions

Have a topic you would like to hear about? Add it below.

• Web 2.0/3.0
• Communication
• Usability
• Collaboration in Social Networking
• Social Responsibility and Ethics in the New Media Environment
• Collecting and Leveraging User Data
• Topics in Analog vs. Digital
• Information Thresholds of the Client, Customer, Community, Co-Worker, etc. (TMI?)
• Organizing User Generated Content
• Aggregated Content
• Teaching Others How to Check Their Email
• The Blog as a Medium
• Prediction Exchanges and the Wisdom of Crowds
• What To Do When the Server Goes Down
• Thought Leadership in the Digital Age
• rsnapshot, rsync, and other useful tools
• Ruby on Rails
• Google Analytics, Mint, and tracking visitors
• PHP MVC Frameworks (Cake, Symphony, Code Igniter, etc.)
• Flex
• RubyAMF, SWX Ruby, Flexible Rails, etc.
• Prototyping
• The evolution of traditional media companies
• Computational Journalism
• iPhone SDK
• iPhone Web Development

Have a topic you want to talk about? Add it below.

• Haml and Sass (JasonMcCay)

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