BarCampBirmingham is a user generated conference created around an open, participatory workshop-event, with content provided by participants. Those participating choose the session topics for the day and then present to each other. It's free. It's fun. It's a great way to meet the local technology community.
Want to attend? Add your name to the Camping List
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
Here is some information for first-timers.
Get Involved
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)
- Creating rubygems and a look at the ruby-flickr gem (BenWyrosdick)
- Interaction Design (Bill Abel)
Ubuntu Alabama LoCo (MichaelRamm & LoCo Team Members) (No support and I will be late to BCB due to son's teeball game)- Twitter: Fad or Phenom (MichaelRamm)
- Personal Productivity through GTD (MichaelRamm)
- How Modern Designers Are Taking Over The World, One Website At A Time (ChrisCollins)
- Documenting Design (Bill Abel)
- Interacting with Everyday Objects (Bill Abel)
- Mobile Device Emulation for Fun & Profit (Chris Rue)
- Introduction to Adobe Flex 3 and AIR (John Cook)
- Social Media Marketing (Jeff Keeton)
- To Be Determined (I'm flexible...) (Wade Kwon)
- Starting a Startup (CurtisPalmer)
- OLPC related talk (HenryMcBride)
- Git it while it's hot!! (AnthonyCrumley)
- Usability / interface design (Joel Calvin)
- Meta-programming; Ruby (Greg Houston)
Sponsors
Since BarCampBirmingham2 is a free event, we are looking for sponsors to help cover the cost of several things. If you know of a company or organization that would be interested in helping to sponsor our event, please let us know. There is a list of items available for sponsorship below.
Location (Thanks Innovation Depot!)- Security at location (required by Innovation Depot - $100 per day)
- WiFi Routers for additional connectivity (Curtis: I'll bring one, but I think ID is 'fixing' the problem)
- Breakfast on Saturday (pastries, juices, coffee, etc.)
- Lunch on Saturday
- Snacks and Beverages throughout the day
- T-shirts
Door Prizes (Wade on Birmingham will sponsor an assortment of prizes, including a gift card, cookbook and fancy space pen)- Media
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