BarCampKC
Last year Trozollo held a BarCamp in Kansas City called BigIdeacamp-KansasCity that was geared toward facilitating collaboration between young entrepreneurs.
BarCampKC will be a similar effort but grassroots and aimed more generally at innovative business and technology teams or individuals in the Kansas City area who want to share something about their own project(s) and learn a thing or two from other presenters. There's no restriction on content as long as presentations have something to do with business and/or technology and for those new to the idea, here are the essentials regarding how it works:
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* If you want to present, write your topic and name in a presentation slot.
* Only three word intros.
* As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
* No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
* Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until they run into another presentation slot.
* If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present. (Ok, you don't really HAVE to, but try to find someone to present with, or at least ask questions and be an interactive participant.)
The BarCampKC setup will go slightly astray in that instead of planning sessions the same day they're happening we're going to have a Friday-Saturday structure where Friday serves as a meet-and-greet that lasts a couple hours and during which we 'll pull out a pad of poster paper at some point to schedule the sessions we're all going to present and/or attend the following day (Saturday).
Also unlike BarCamps proper we won't be camping out. We'll just meet somewhere Friday to schedule the sessions, go home, then meet up again Saturday to go wherever it is we end up hosting the sessions.
We'll keep logistics to a minimum and plan on finding a place with at least 6 "session areas" that can accommodate groups of 8, plus some kind of common area for a coffee carafe and whatever other refreshments we buy ourselves or might receive from sponsors.
To date we're just contacting local organizations in case any of their members/employees might be interested in participating. There is certainly room for particpants not affiliated with a local company/organization as well.
Sites marked with the "barcampkc" can be picked up in this feed at delicious.com. We can also use it afterward to tag presentation materials uploaded to various places post-BarCampKC. In the meantime feel free to add to it as you get moments.
We're shooting for 30-50 participants.
Event details
When
May 9 & May 10 2008
Where
TBD
Where to stay?
Contact us if you have difficulty finding accommodations for the night of May 9.
Sponsors
TBD
Budget
- Incoming donations (cash, in-kind)
- Outgoing expenses
Schedule
Day 1
Day 2
Proposed Sessions
- Randall Rice Surviving Software Testing Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing
- Steve Mitchell TBD TBD
- Phillip Pell InnovationSwarm.com InnovationSwarm.com is an online business collaboration tool designed to connect large businesses in need of novel or unconventional solutions or products with smaller firms that can provide them and to connect small firms to each other in "swarms" to enable collaboration between disparate core competencies.
- Pete Thomas Unfuddle with debian Managing your software project with unfuddle.com and debian package tools.
- Pete Thomas Web application platforms Overview of various sites like blist, DabbleDB, Zoho Creator, LongJump, Bungee Labs, Rollbase, and AppJet that allow you to develop your own hosted applications.
Topics I would like to hear about
Planners
Pete Thomas pete+barcampkc@pollensystems.com
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
Wifi
Projector, White Boards
Photo
Video
Audio
Streaming or Stickam or Skype
Non-tech
Breakfast
Lunch
Coffee/Tea
Tables and chairs
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag barcampkc for content related to this event
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