BarCampDallas 4, a continuation on the great history of the first BarCamp held in Texas.

What

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

HitchhikersGuideToBarCampDallas

When

Based on holding a local barcamp twice a year (JAN + AUG), the next BarCampDallas 4 is proposed for August September 2007.

After an informal (20) poll, suggest moving BCD4 to SEP. How about last Saturday of September? SEP 29

Where

This barcamp will be held in the DFW area. Venue TBD.

Host(s)

Host(s) needed

>>Perhaps a local university would be willing to host a camp

>>Perhaps a local corporation would be willing to host a camp

Interested in Attending

• ConeJohnson conejohnson at gmail (focus: students, education)
• giovanni at gallucci.net Queso Compuesto Techs-Mex Podcasts, The Agency Blog
• EricaOgrady
• Kinan Sweidan
• Daniel Miller danielsjourney (focus: art, technology)
• Lincoln Murphy lincoln at lincolnmurphy.com
• Curtis Garrison Curtis at DreamCars.com [http://www.DreamCars.com]
• Jay Fichialos Travel Studios (focus: emergence, community)
• john keese :: johnboy8 at gmail :: focus = being young but looking old

Tasks - to do (please cross out when it's done)

• set venue (with wifi, classrooms, meeting room, projector, white boards)
• multiple meeting rooms (multiple sessions)
• establish hosts (people)
• establish hosts (company)
• sponsors
• sponsors for food
• sponsors for drink
• other sponsorship opportunities
• party before
• party after
• snag volunteers -- maybe students
• and other event planners
• other tech equipment if needed -- overhead, projector, video, audio, microphones
• public relations -- local papers, blogs, professional organizations
• spread the word via social networking -- twitter, pownce, ning, upcoming.org. etc.
• flickr tags
• nametags
• stickers - moo sticker (maybe use moo stickers as nametags)
• t-shirts
• recommendations on presentations, presenters
• survey participants
• plan next BarCampDallas

Topics

Talk up next local BarCamp iPhoneDevCampDallas

Discussion or presentation on Adobe apps: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Flex3, ColdFusion8 download

And discuss from Microsoft: Silverlight download, Expression Web download, Photosynth labs.live.com

Can tags (user-generated taxonomies) replace a pre-defined taxonomy? (SIGCHI from CHI-WEB discussion, Hal Shubin)... (one) can use tags to do some searching, but it's a very simple search... (and) what about an advanced search with tags? Maybe multiple-term clouds.

Perhaps one day of the BCD4 (BarCampDallas4) could be devoted to a Design Crawl and Walking Camp like this one in SF: http://orange-sf.pbwiki.com/