The first ever Barcamp in Buffalo is at Pearl Street Grill on Tuesday March 3rd at 7:30pm. The idea is to create ongoing events for people involved in new technology and web related development to connect and learn from one another.
What is Buffalo BarCamp?
- 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, design and web development 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
Event details
When
Tuesday March 3, 7:30pm
Where
Pearl Street Grill & Brewery - http://www.pearlstreetgrill.com/
76 Pearl Street, Buffalo, NY 14202
Participants (aka Campers)
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 between five and fifteen minutes - let us know how much time you need (roughly) so we can plan out the schedule.
If not speaking, use the Topic field to indicate another way you can help!
| Participant |
URL or Email |
Topic |
| Chris Van Patten |
http://chrisvanpatten.com/ |
Probably a beginner's guide to OpenID. Ten minutes |
| 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/ |
Discussion: Options for 'Interaction Assurance'; Strong Authentication in World 2.0? [~10 min] |
| Jon Brennan |
http://www.noobis.com |
10 min TBD |
| Colleen Kulikowski |
http://www.BestBuffaloHomes.com
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10 min Wordpress Plugins |
| David Monroe |
http://www.ComConnectionsNY.org |
BufWiki, GoogleMaps and Community Asset Mapping (10 min.) |
| Chris Moyer |
http://inarow.net/ |
Javascript Apps: CouchDB & Titanium (10? minutes)
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| Chris Smith |
http://buffalogeek.com |
Grassroots Political Organizing On The Web |
| Ralph Whitbeck |
http://ralphwhitbeck.com
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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 |
| Dan Magnuszewski |
http://magnachef.blogspot.com |
Configuration Management with Puppet (~10 min) |
| Jessica Hopkins |
http://twitter.com/hops11 |
5 min, Using social media for publicity and other nefarious schemes
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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...) |
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