Event Details

BarCampHarrisburg is a participatory unconference for students, enthusiasts, and professionals to network and share knowledge in an open environment. The event involves discussions, demos, and interaction with participants. Please see the Rules of Barcamp for what to expect.

The focus of this BarCamp will be on Web design, development, and online social media within the context of the Central PA area.

Tentative Schedule:

Sponsors

We are currently seeking sponsors for:

• Venue (Temple University)
• Breakfast (Nuts About Granola, still seeking additional sponsors)
• Lunch
• T-shirt printing (MudBrick Creative)
• Name stickers

Prices are estimates and contingent upon the number of attendees.

Please contact one of the planners (below) if you or your organization would be interested in sponsoring this event.

Proposed Sessions/Workshops

Please add to the list below topics you would like to see presented or would be willing to present at this event. Session times should last 30 minutes, however, if you would like to present a longer session feel free!

• Building a site using the Gaia Flash Framework
• Open source content management systems
• Developing Desktop Applications using AIR
• Developing Android Applications

 Organizers

• Rich Hauck (email, twitter: mandalatv, Website)
• Dave Robertson (email, twitter: daverobertson, Website)
• Dan Thompson (email, twitter: withoutnoise, Website)

Current Attendees

Interested in attending? Add your name and a brief description of who you are to the list below. This will help us determine how many people to prepare for and give other attendees a sense of who else will be attending. Also, feel free to join the Google Group for BarCampHarrisburg.

1. Dave Robertson, Owner/Creative Director, Factory 44
2. Rich Hauck, Creative Director, Hauck Interactive, Inc.
3. Dan Thompson, Owner/Creative Director, Withoutnoise
4. Jon Strande, Hershey Foods
5. Doug Logan, Web & Interactive Director, Inovat
6. Drew McLain, Partner/Director of Technology, WorkXpress.
7. Jeff Avallone, Contractor/Web Developer, Versatile Systems, Inc
8. Nathan Powell, Software Developer, Anteil
9. David Jaquay, Software Developer, Anteil
10. Paul Benninghove , General Manager, MudBrick Creative
11. Tyler Pritchard, Lead Designer, MudBrick Creative
12. Courtney Engle, Social Media & Personal Branding Coach, YourSocialBrand Virtual Assistant & AuzanoGroup (twitter)
13. Lon Farenwald, IT Director, The YGS Group (twitter: lfaren)
14. Tyler Golden; IT/Destiny Image Publishers; Owner/Impression Computers
15. Christian Pearce, Owner, ParentProxy
16. Eric Andreychek, Owner, OpenThought
17. John Mulligan, Head Poobah, Thinkhole Labs
18. Greg Newman, Independent Python Devigner
19. Robert Rowe, private cello/violin teacher (twitter: rorowe)
20. Shawn Farner, College student, Blogger, Techie (Blog/Twitter)
21. Carl Leiby, Software Developer, Commerce360 (Blog/Twitter)
22. Josh Miller, Web/Software Developer, (Site)
23. Sarah Lanphier, Owner, Nuts About Granola
24. Dave Hickethier, Roberston & Hauck Fan, andCulture
25. Maurice Reeves, Senior Consultant, Anexinet (Blog/Twitter)
26. Brian Polensky, Project Specialist, Very Amateur Web Designer (Blog/Twitter)
27. Chris Allwein, Senior Consultant, Anexinet
28. Fernando Ponce Icaza, potyhai.com (Twitter)
29. Keith Bennett, Senior Software Consultant, Bennett Business Solutions
30. Michael Jovel, Flash Platform Developer, (Blog/Twitter)
31. Brian Evans, e-Marketing & PR Manager, (Twitter)
32. Brent Colflesh, PHP Developer, Nxtbook Media, (Twitter)
33. Heather Myers (Twitter)
34. Shane Hoffa, Flash Developer/Adobe User Group Manager, (JPL, CPFUG, Blog)
35. Michael Donley, Senior Consultant / novice android developer (ISS)
36. Aaron Sherrick, President, Develisys
37. Art Straub, Developer/Project Manager, Computer Aid, Inc.

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Facebook:

• Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35895273698
• Event:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=97483575242

Twitter:

• Invite local Twitter users: http://www.twitterlocal.net/
• Tagging tweets: http://hashtags.org/search?query=barcampharrisburg&submit=Search
  • see this video about hashtags 

FriendFeed:

• http://friendfeed.com/rooms/barcampharrisburg