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BarCampDallas

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Bar Camp Dallas - January 28th, 2006

 

 

BAR CAMP DALLAS IS HISTORY

 

See the irc log here

 

Presentations: Dallas2006Schedule

 

Flickr Photo Stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampdallas/

 

Video from Main Presentation Room: http://67.19.70.244:8000/barcamp.sdp (if you are local, turn off the feed - i.e. the Powerbook that is feeding it is getting slammed)

 

 

Where

 

INFOMART 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 2013 (for directions or information call 214.550.2002 or 214.550.2003)

 

 

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? BarCamp Palo Alto? 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!

 

We still need a few folding tables. Call 214.550.2003 and let us know how many you can bring.

 

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".

 

 

 

News

 

25 Jan 2006: 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.

 

 

Bringing in Food

  • Daniel Ramos from Fiesta Fruits will need loading dock entry @ 4:30 to bring dinner up.
  • Florence Sunio (Architectonic Chief Baker) will be bringing in snacks
  • Happy from Gachet will be delivering coffee

 

Attendees

Dropouts

 

 

Proposed Sessions

 

  • Media 2.0 (Brian Oberkirch)
  • - 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)
  • An introduction to Flock (Chris Messina)
  • Is it time for community office space in Dallas? (Raven Zachary) e.g. http://codinginparadise.org/coworking/
  • Robots 2.0, The ultimate disruptive technology (Eric Molitor) Open Discussion
  • Search and recomendation systems using Latent Semantic Analysis (David Hagar) Open Discussion

 

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.
  • Auto-accept video iChat on Bonjour and AIM: BarCampDallas06 - if you can't be there, at least see it over IM

 

 

 

 

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:

 

  • Home Conductor - Coffee
  • - Lunch (Pizza)
  • - Shirts (cheap shirts - not so cheap)
  • - $500 for Dinner
  • - Venue, Drinks & Everything else besides dinner and coffee (not cheap)
  • TuxBot, SWARC, Eric Molitor - Drinks

 

 

 

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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