BarCampKC
We are blogging at the BarCampKC WordPress blog.
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. For now there's no restriction on content though we may narrow down the theme as the date gets closer.
The BarCampKC setup will stray slightly from the format 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
Confirmed to be at Ad Astra offices in Overland Park (see the blog) -pete 04/08/2008
Where to stay?
Participants (aka Campers)
David Collins
Sean Cribbs
Nick Davis
Tim Hibbard
Christa Casebeer (linuxchic)
Alec Miller
Steve Mitchell
Teresa Molina
Tom Mornini
Philip Pell
Scott Raymond (sco@scottraymond.net)
Contact us if you have difficulty finding accommodations for the night of May 9. The event is 2 days with Friday May 9 mainly serving as a meet- and-greet (see general description above).
Sponsors
Ad Astra
Panera
Waldo Pizza?
Roasterie?
Boulevard Brewery?
Schedule
Day 1
Proposed Sessions
- ur proposed or wished-for sessions right here to this wiki page or contact pete or leave a comment on the barcampkc blog!
Topics I would like to hear about
Planners
Pete Thomas pete+barcampkc@pollensystems.com
Phil Pell
Task List
(please cross out when it's done)
Tech
Wifi -covered
Projector, White Boards -covered
Photo - bring your cameras!
Video - bring your cameras!
Audio - linuxchic is so hooking us up on this one.
Streaming or Stickam or Skype
Audio Streaming
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
Who's blogging?
(jeff)isageek.net
Sean Cribbs
Alternageek Tech Show will be live audio streaming the event.
