The second BarCamp in Buffalo is at Pearl Street Grill on Tuesday March 31st 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
Lessons Learned from BarCampBuffalo #1:
- 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
Event details
When
Tuesday, March 31, 7:30pm [RSVP using Facebook link below]
Where
Pearl Street Grill & Brewery - http://www.pearlstreetgrill.com/
2nd Floor
76 Pearl Street, Buffalo, NY 14202
BarCampBuffalo on the web
Facebook Group
Facebook Event (RSVP!)
LinkedIn Event Details
Twitter
BarCampBuffalo 1st Event slideshare
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!
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URI or Email |
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Occupation |
Interests |
| Chris Van Patten |
http://chrisvanpatten.com/ |
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| Jim Lindley |
http://jimlindley.com/ |
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| Joseph Hsu |
http://josephhsu.com/ |
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| Kevin Purdy |
http://lifehacker.com |
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| Steve Poland |
http://stevepoland.com/about |
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| S. Navpreet Jatana |
http://www.jatana.com/ |
Discussion: Leadership & The Workplace: What Do We Expect? [~10 min] |
Senior IT Executive |
Affect change & innovate using IT |
| Jon Brennan |
http://www.noobis.com |
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| Colleen Kulikowski |
http://www.BestBuffaloHomes.com
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| Chris Moyer |
http://inarow.net/ |
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| Chris Smith |
http://buffalogeek.com |
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| Ralph Whitbeck |
http://ralphwhitbeck.com
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| Mike Canzoneri |
http://friendfeed.com/mfc5 |
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| Derek Punaro |
http://punaro.com |
Not presenting this time |
Information Architect - Praxair, Inc. |
Enterprise collaboration, blogging, social networking, web development |
| Jessica Hopkins |
http://twitter.com/hops11 |
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| Marc Odien |
http://wnymedia.net |
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| Tom Lukasik (a/k/a sparky) |
tlukasik@exnihilum.com
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I'm unable to attend this evening; presentations are rescheduled for next event.
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Independent Software Architect and Developer |
Massively Distributed, P2P and Cloud/Utility Computing; Information Architecture (IOA); Synthetic Intelligence.. (just a sampling, and in no particular order)
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| Dave Marshall |
david.marshall@mongooseresearch.com |
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| Kevin Lim |
http://theory.isthereason.com |
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| Eric Nagel |
http://ericnagel.com |
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| Dan Magnuszewski |
http://magnachef.blogspot.com
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Configuration Management With Puppet [~15 min] |
Systems Administrator |
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| Curtis Duhn |
http://www.zworkbench.com/
http://www.appsirun.com/
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With OS 3.0, iPhone will rewrite the rules again. |
Independent software engineer and product manager |
iPhone development, Facebook development, Ruby, Rails, Javascript, product management, product marketing |
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Topic Suggestions
- add a topic...
- Local Technology
- Web 2.0 in Buffalo
- Ruby on Rails in use here
- Wireless Technology
- Running your Business
- Being Agile in your Development
- Debugging Technology
- Facebook TOS changes
Presentations at BarCampBuffalo #1 (for reference):
BarCamp is all about participation. The following individuals presented (or were interested in presenting) at the last event on Tuesday, March 3, 2009:
| Participant |
URL or Email |
Topic |
| 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/ |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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...) |
| Eric Nagel |
http://ericnagel.com |
Quoting programming/other gigs as a Freelancer (5min)
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