NOTE: BarCamp Buffalo has moved to its own page: http://barcampbuffalo.org — Register and learn more there!
The idea is to create ongoing events for people involved in new technology to connect and learn from one another.
BarCamp Buffalo #5
When
Event #5 - Wednesday, May 30, 2012 @ 5pm - 7pm Drinks/Food/Meet others! (buy your own food/drinks)
7pm - 9:30pm BarCamp presentations! 10 minute presentations with 5 minutes between for Q&A (and setup of next participant's presentation)
Where
Pearl Street Brewery (click for map)
76 Pearl Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
What is BarCamp Buffalo?
- A group designed to connect the disparate elements of the Buffalo technology and design communities
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A meet up of people interested in technology, design and web development
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A place to share what you are working on get input, insights and opinion from others
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Learn about cool stuff that others in the technology and design communities are doing
What should I expect?
- Short presentations from people who want to share their cool stuff
- Open participation for all. Attendees are encouraged to talk, listen, share and get involved. Someone have a cool idea or business plan that you want in on? Well, share a beer and make a connection. Someone making something cool and you want to know how they did it? Ask some questions. You get the idea.
- A casual atmosphere, no suits!
- Enjoy some drinks and have fun
Participants
Anyone can speak, even you! BarCamp is all about participation - talk about your projects, a cool website you want to share... anything relevant to tech and social media in Buffalo!
Speaking sessions are up to 10 minutes. If not speaking, use the Topic field to indicate another way you can help!
(To add a row: Edit page, right-click the table, Row, Insert Row...)
| Presenter | Participant | URI | Topic | Occupation | Interests |
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1=presenter 0=attendee |
Your Name |
http://yoursite.com | Title of talk |
What do you do? |
Give 10 words or less on your interests |
| 0 | Steve Poland | http://www.stevepoland.com/about | x-TechCrunch writer | startups, concerts, belgian beer, Purdue, consumer web/mobile apps | |
| 1 | Garrett Fisher | http://www.financesolutionsllc.com | Why Freelancers Should Not Use TurboTax | Startup Finance Consultant, Consulting CFO, Among other things | tech companies, startups, turnarounds, travel, airplanes, mountain climbing, skiing, photography, aerial photography, hyper-analyzing why and how everything on the planet works the way it does |
| 1 | Alexander Levine | http://www.oldversion.com | Transforming Buffalo - From Apathy to A Hub of Innovation | Entrepreneur | community building, adventure, travel, hiking, biking, swimming, start-ups, theatre, technology |
| 1 | Chris Smith | http://buffalocashmob.com | Social Media That Isn't Lame, The Cash Mob Story | Engineer, Blogger, | Facial hair enthusiast, brewing beer for profit, reading, doing |
| 1 | Joel Colombo | http://www.360psg.com | Core Values drive your Culture. Define them or they are defined for you. | President, 360 PSG | Coding, Entrepreneurship, Movies, Tech News Junkie ! |
| 1 | Mike Dawidowicz (synace) | http://buffalolab.org | Buffalo Lab - a makerspace; learn, make, play! |
Director - Buffalo Lab; EVP Tech - CollectorsProof; Director Tech - M2Synergies |
Making things (tech, science, food); Collaborating; Providing opportunity for others |
| 1 | Chris Van Patten | http://www.chrisvanpatten.com/ | Custom WordPress Themes Without Agony | Founder, Van Patten Media | Web development, theatre, the arts |
| 1 | Charlie Wertz | http://cjwertz.wordpress.com/ | Will a robot eat your lunch | Certified old guy |
IT, economics, life, most of the above
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| 1 | Peter Cimino | http://pjcimino.blogspot.com/ | Astronomy 101 - The Night Sky | Director of IT Buffalo Niagara Association of Realtors | Astronomy, Technology, Hockey, Living Life, and the Pursuit of Happiness! |
| 1 | Lisa Primerano | http://www.primeranolaw.com | A Lawyer Walked into a Bar[Camp] |
IP/Corporate Attorney; Entrepreneur |
Compulsively research and collect information, analyze said information, and then sometimes over-analyze it. |
BarCampBuffalo on the Web
Facebook Likes: http://www.facebook.com/BarCampBuffalo
Twitter: http://twitter.com/BarCampBuffalo
SlideShare.net: http://www.slideshare.net/group/BarCampBuffalo (please link all past and future presentations to this group)
SlideShare.net: BarCampBuffalo 1st Event slideshare
Sponsors
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Topic Suggestions
Please list some topics you'd like to hear/learn about from others. Also, if you're looking for speaking ideas, reference this list to get ideas:
- add a topic...
- Programming & Development
- Learning to code
- Picking a language/framework
- Language specific: Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP
- Agile Development
- Debugging Technology
- Building a Twitter/Facebook app
- Startups, Entrepreneurship, Business
- How to get funding for your startup
- Finding technical co-founders
- Running your Business
- Ideas for making your app viral
- Getting traction/users
- How LinkedIn can help you find a job
- Hardware, Electronics, Robotics, etc
- Wireless Technology
- Arduino
- Hardware hacking/repurposing
- Social Media
- Marketing yourself w/ Twitter, Facebook, etc
- Software/tools to help you blog, tweet, build FB/Twitter apps, etc
- Blog your way to awesomeness
- Everything you do on the web is there forever, don't screw up you reputation
- Interesting ways to track/gauge reputation
- Distributed social networks like Diaspora
- Local Technology
- Growing tech culture
- Web 2.0 in Buffalo
- Attracting technology companies to Buffalo
- Buffalo Startups
- Other
- Homebrewing beer
- Boy Scouts 101
- How to be Awesome
- Get rid of that gut
- Gluten-free 101
- Planting a vegetable garden
- (anything that interests you!)
Presentations From Previous BarCampBuffalo (for reference)
BarCamp is all about participation. The following individuals presented (or were interested in presenting) at the events on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 and March 31, 2009, Monday, May 4, 2009:
| Participant | URL or Email | Topic |
| Dan Gigante | http://www.clevermethod.com | Adding a Facebook comments box to your site in about 3 minutes |
| Tom Petrocelli | http://www.techalignment.com |
Startup Funding Ideas |
| Kevin Purdy | http://thepurdman.com | How Can We Fix the God-Awful Comments on News Sites? |
| Chris Van Patten | http://chrisvanpatten.com/ | FOSSwire + OpenID |
| Jim Lindley | http://jimlindley.com/ | BuffaloFeed.com, maybe |
| Joseph Hsu | http://josephhsu.com/ | Live Stream Monitoring (w/ app), 5 min |
| Kevin Purdy | http://lifehacker.com | Writing smarter and faster, on the web or anywhere (10-12 min) |
| Steve Poland | http://stevepoland.com/about | Basic monetizing options (i.e. affiliate marketing) |
| S. Navpreet Jatana | http://www.jatana.com/ | ‘Interaction Assurance’: Options for Strong Authentication in World 2.0?, Leadership & The Workplace: What Do We Expect?, Social Computing in the Enterprise: Social Software Considerations |
| Jon Brennan | http://www.noobis.com | 10 min TBD |
| Colleen Kulikowski | 10 min Wordpress Plugins | |
| Chris Moyer | http://inarow.net/ |
Javascript Apps: CouchDB & Titanium (10? minutes) |
| Chris Smith | http://buffalogeek.com | Facilitating |
| Ralph Whitbeck | http://ralphwhitbeck.com |
Intro to jQuery |
| Mike Canzoneri | http://friendfeed.com/mfc5 | I will talk while you watch a CodeSwarm video (13 min or less) |
| Derek Punaro | http://punaro.com | Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 |
| Jessica Hopkins | http://twitter.com/hops11 |
5 min, Using social media for publicity and other nefarious schemes |
| Marc Odien | http://wnymedia.net | Sharing and Caring In A New Media World |
| Tom Lukasik (a/k/a sparky) |
tlukasik@exnihilum.com
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Lightning presentations (no more than 2~3 mins per, 7 mins total) on: [1] Forming a WNY area Erlang SIG (Concurrency! Reliability! Cool Factor! Free! What's not to like?) [2] Doing $omething in $econd Life to make money ($erious Fun!) [3] Organizing an Independent/Freelance Computer Consultant, Architect, and Developer Co-operative to provide mutual support and shared resources for self-employed "Bit Workers" in the Buffalo/WNY area. Ok, no emails, so I'm on my own - but I'll have questions! I'm making it more of a conversation than a presentation! Healthy audience participation is hoped for. |
| Dave Marshall | david.marshall@mongooseresearch.com |
Options for developing for the mobile web. CSS vs. browser detect platform based apps vs. WAP apps I am starting a new company focused on mobile web design and mobile apps.. with integration with social networks. This session will focus on the most effective ways to communicate via mobile from the user's perspective. 15 min |
| Kevin Lim | http://theory.isthereason.com | WTF: Work Time Fun (or if games are addictive, why can't work be addictive too? Here's how...) |
| Eric Nagel | http://ericnagel.com | |
| Dan Magnuszewski | http://magnachef.blogspot.com | Configuration Management With Puppet |
| Steve Poland | http://stevepoland.com/about | How to Startup! (not being a programmer yourself) |
| Eric Nagel | http://www.ericnagel.com/ | Affiliate Marketing on Twitter via Merchant RSS Feeds |
| Barnaby B | www.openROC.com | An upcomming app to save democracy that works through twitter, facebook, blogs, and the iPhone. |
| Mike Brennan | http://www.noobis.com | Raising awareness for non-profit org using social media / web 2.0 |
| Chris Muench | http://www.chrismuench.com | JSONP |
| John O'Keefe | http://www.theokeefes.com | How To Get Your Boss To Approve Your Idea. Understanding message "static" between you (sender) and the boss (receiver). A quick look at influence via Myers-Briggs. |
| S. Navpreet Jatana | http://www.jatana.com | Social Computing in the Enterprise: Social Software Considerations |
| Mark Nikirk | N/A | Cognitive psychology and metadata in flat file structures |
Lessons Learned from previous BarCampBuffalo events:
- break into relevant smaller groups and have people in those groups give presentations and/or start discussions
- have people bring VGA cables, power cords, projectors, etc [we'd like to have a twitter search page displayed the entire time for tags '#BarCampBuffalo']
- bring speakers for multimedia presentations
- encourage more ad-hoc WiFi networks via sprint/verizon cards (note: they have bandwidth restrictions, so no downloading or video watching)
- be better about time limits and cut-offs
- have the online wiki list everyone in attendance (that's you!), what they do, interests, and links to their profile/websites
- have an online chatroom setup that people can chat in during the event
- more networking time
- have a big list of what presentations will take place in which groups, so that people can bounce around if they want
- encourage people to specify on the wiki what they'd like to hear/learn about from others