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BarCampDallas

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Bar Camp Dallas - January 28th, 2006

 

(at the INFOMART)

 

What is BarCampDallas? Think of it as a way to get the tech/geek community together in Dallas. Non-Dallas equivalents? Think: Usenix? SXSW Interactive? Burning Man? BarCampPaloAlto? Only one thing is certain: It's up to you to decide. The most important thing you should take away from the event? Relationships with other geeks in Dallas!

 

When

 

Saturday, Jan 28th, 2006, with an official start at 10am (get there early to get a good presentation slot!) and an offical end of "as late as it goes". How to get in: The building is secured on Saturdays (i.e. the doors are locked). From 10AM to 11AM we will have an Architel employee at the front door of the building (facing I-35) to let you in and direct you to our offices. After 11AM you will need to go to the rear of the building to the loading dock. We will give a 'list of attendees' to the security guard and all you need to do is present your ID and they will let you come up to the 2nd floor. If you are not on the list the guard will call us and we will tell them you should have been on the list. PLEASE SIGN UP ON THE WIKI - i.e. that way you will be on the list.

 

Where

 

INFOMART 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 2013 (for directions or information call 214.550.2002 or 214.550.2003) How to get in: The building is secured on Saturdays (i.e. the doors are locked). From 10AM to 11AM we will have an Architel employee at the front door of the building (facing I-35) to let you in and direct you to our offices. After 11AM you will need to go to the rear of the building to the loading dock. We will give a 'list of attendees' to the security guard and all you need to do is present your ID and they will let you come up to the 2nd floor. If you are not on the list the guard will call us and we will tell them you should have been on the list. PLEASE SIGN UP ON THE WIKI - i.e. that way you will be on the list.

 

 

News

 

25 Jan 2005 : BarCampDallasPressRelease

 

20 Jan 2006 : Attendee email #1 at http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp/ - please read it if you haven't already

 

19 Jan 2006 : Help promote BarCampDallas on your blog with SpreadBarCampDallas digital swag.

 

18 Jan 2006 : Walkthough at the Infomart, see flickr tag "barcampdallas". And by the way, mark everything Bar Camp Dallas related "barcampdallas" with a technoratic, del.icio.us or flickr tag and it will appear at http://barcampdallas.suprglu.com

 

17 Jan 2006 : BarCampDallasConfCallOne

 

11 Jan 2006: BarCampDallas pimped at Refresh Dallas. Hope to see everyone: designers, coders, geeks and dancers?

 

16 Dec 2005: DallasLeeHarveysMeetup smashing success, 100's of attendees, police called, see wiki page for details.

 

09 Dec 2005: http://www.frappr.com/barcampdallas. Don't forget Lee Harvey's next Thursday. Or suggest another place/date...

 

08 Dec 2005: I'd like to have an in-person get-together for anybody interested in helping out (or, honestly, just hanging out) this coming Thursday, December 15th. Lee Harvey's (see below) might be fun... WHAT TIME? cks: around 6:15 PM?

 

29 Nov 2005: The date for the event has been set: Sat, Jan 28th, 2006. The venue will be at the INFOMART (1950 Stemmons Freeway)

 

22 Nov 2005: We have actual sponsors, an actual venue, and a proposed weekend, see below for details.

 

What is it?

 

(As stolen from BarCampNYC, as copied from...) BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference 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. All attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one.

 

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

 

When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.

 

Questions? Check out the google groups mailing list at: http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp/ or just post them in the "Questions" section at the bottom of this page. Or join us on irc: freenode.net #barcamp, look for cks or bingledac.

 

Similiar Things

 

 

Who

 

Add yourself! Include your instant messaging or email info if you like. If you think you might want to help out, by all means add yourself to the organizers list and sign up for: http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp/

 

Organizers

 

 

Confirmed Attendees

 

Move your name from the "Attendees" list to here to confirm that you're really coming and guarantee a slot if the venue fills up.

 

 

Attendees

 

Proposed Sessions

 

  • Rapid Prototyping, Wireframes, and User Interface Design (Garrett Dimon)
  • Web Apps & Front-End Architecture (Garrett Dimon)
  • Media 2.0 (Brian Oberkirch)
  • CSS 101 (Garrett Dimon)
  • SimpleTicket - Open Source Trouble Ticketing (Kevin Marvin)
  • MPEG2 hardware encoding and streaming on a budget (weird movies and video included)
  • Controlling smell emitting hardware with X10 via MIDI.
  • Big in Japan (Alexander Muse)
  • Commodore64 hacking for musical pleasure. (if Paul Slocum will do it)
  • Robotic Combat: SWARC will have the small arena as well as some bigger bots to show off. Our next event is the following weekend more info at http://www.robotrebellion.net
  • Robots: Basic Robots, Bike Bots, and UTD Robot Head (tenative, Ean can you confirm if David can attend - Eric)
  • Working with community, understanding blogging, blogging 101, community 101, that sort of thing
  • Ad-hoc huge music experiment (think japancakes if you know) guided by a randomly generated presentation. Bring musical instruments, amplification if you have it.
  • Use theatre games to explore social interaction and oppression in development
  • Finally answer the question -- pair-program or no? head to head mortal coding combat. Loser gets covered in slime.
    • What language? Should I sharpen my brackets or soften my tabs?
  • http://www.mascarillons.org/, let loose in the infomart? please?
  • Microformats for design geeks
  • Microformats for coding geeks
  • How to start a startup, advice from VC's and others (I'm betting everybody who attends is either starting a company, or thinking about it.)
  • Supporting open source causes (Chris Messina and Raven Zachary)
  • Innovating ways of consuming content (RSS, Atom, XML, etc.) that break the mold of the typical outlook style rss aggregator, and to use SSE for synchronization
  • Greasemonkey presentation
  • Alexa Web Search Platform brainstorming
  • New idea for OPML that could have a shift on the format if adopted by the masses
  • The state of the Linux Desktop
  • An introduction to managing linux data centers with openQRM [http://www.openqrm.org] (William Hurley)
  • Anatomy of a Podcast: Case study of creating, maintaining and marketing a podcast into the iTunes top 100 (John Keehler)
  • Extending traditional IVR (interactive voice response) to web 2.0 leveraging open source;
  • User Relevance
  • Ruby on Rails group chat. Not a formal presentation, perhaps more of a bit of informal evangelism for those that haven't caught the fever? greg pierce
  • Building a Web App in Javascript - Anthony Lewis - If anyone is interested in something like this...
  • Playing well with your SysAdmin (Grant Schofield)
  • Web Services with Ruby (Adam Keys)
  • UTD Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) - http://auv.utdallas.edu - Introduction and design collaboration (Mike Menefee)
  • Rethinking email (Mike Menefee)

 

Proposed Activities

 

  • Lunch to start, dinner served as a buffet and beer to follow (Pizza for lunch, Mexican for dinner)
  • Music jam - bring your laptops, instruments, amps, etc.
  • Live blogging, video, IRC chat, podcasting.

 

 

 

Cost

 

Free. But there's a catch. Attendees are expected to contribute back to the conference by participating actively. "Active participation" might mean giving a presentation, helping with a presentation, blogging or podcasting the event, or whatever other creative ways to contribute people can come up with. BarCampPaloAlto2005 had a paypal account where people could contribute actual money if they wanted. That might be a good strategy if we get so many people that we need extra space at the Infomart.

 

Sponsors (Who/What)

 

Committed Sponsors:

 

  • Big in Japan: Web 2.0 Toolbox - $500
  • Weblogs Work - $500
  • PureDiscovery - $500 for Dinner
  • Home Conductor - Coffee

 

TODO

 

 

Questions

 

  • Is there room for discussions around traditional IT issues, like encouraging organizational change, ITIL/CMM standardization techniques, creative employee motivations. Are there ways to apply the Web2.0 ideas against the problems that we all face as IT leaders? cks: if you think you can convince people to sit and listen, then there's room. i kinda suspect that you'd need either a very healthy dose of charisma or some sort of gimmick to get people interested in the CMM, while the creative employee motivations thing and web 2.0 tie-ins might prove more popular. but that's just me, there's no official position on tech-related topics other than you can't use force to prevent people from leaving the discussion :-)

 

 

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