BarCampPhoenix 2007

 

BarCamp Phoenix 2007

 

Preparation is now underway for BarCamp Phoenix 2007, happening Saturday, December 8!

 

 

 

Why

 

To learn, meet people who share different interests, contribute, and push yourself and your thinking.

 

When

 

December 8, 2007

 

~ 8:00am to ~5:00pm

 

Where

 

UAT (http://www.uat.edu/)

 

Tag

 

If you upload photos to flickr, powerpoint presentations to slideshare, etc, use the tag "barcampphoenix".

 

• I posted my photos to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/alandd/sets/72157603412743077/
• Erica posted her photos to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericalucci/sets/72157603426954661/

 

How to help

 

We need to find some sponsors. In particular for lunch, maybe t-shirts and some general swag. We'll also probably have an after party so a sponsor for food and drink there would be helpful as well.

 

I want to help

 

Cool! Please send E-mail to: james AT risingtidesoftware DOT com.

 

 

You can also help promote Phoenix BarCamp by displaying one of these attractive logos:

 

• http://neurogami.com/images/barcamp/barcamp_phx3a_med.gif
• http://neurogami.com/images/barcamp/barcamp_phx3a_small.gif
• http://neurogami.com/images/barcamp/barcamp_phx3a_smaller.gif

 

 

 

The concept of this conference is start with a loose structure and build the topic plan on the day of camp with the people in attendance. The general topics are things to do with the internet or technology, perhaps Web related, but from there it's open. If there's something you'd like to present simply add it to the list, if there's something that you'd like to learn more about add it to the list of suggestions and maybe someone else will pick it up. Basically the idea here is just to collect a bunch of smart people together and allow them to talk about what ever is interesting to them. If you're an expert on something it might make a good topic, as would a simple demo of something cool that you've made.

 

Let's say you have 8 \'s to spend to indicate topics you will attend - put a "\" next to each one (either scheduled or not) that you want to be a part of.

 

 

Proposed Topics

 

 

 

Note that the *actual* topics will be decided at the time of the event by those in attendance. The above list is what people planning on attending have offered to present.

 

Topics suggested

 

 

• Using server virtualization to ease development, testing and production deployment of web applications.
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• Fringe languages: Io, Haskell, Erlang, etc.
• Current choices in source code repos: svn, darcs, mercurial, git
• Importance of security in web applications.
• Automating web application deployment with Capistrano
• Google BigTable: Distributed storage for structured data

 

 

And let's not forget the after party!

 

 

Attendees

 

If you'd be interested in attending an event of this type, add your name below.

 

1. James Britt
2. David Koontz
3. Chris Tingom
4. Thomas Chapin
5. Brandon Menc
6. Alan Dayley
7. James Pleger
8. -Joe Colburn- (unable to make it)
9. Josh Knowles (tentative)
10. Sean Tierney
11. Joseph Guadagno
12. Derek Neighbors
13. Chad Woolley - thewoolleyman@gmail.com (tentative)
14. Gregg Drennan
15. Eduardo Olvera
16. Kimbro Staken
17. Matt Snyder
18. Preston Lee
19. Jade Meskill
20. Justin Wilson
21. Robert Miller (tentative)
22. Scott Cate (50%)
23. Vincent Serpico
24. Erica Lucci
25. Chuck Reynolds
26. Michael McCurrey
27. Seth Markowitz
28. April Holle
29. Marc Chung
30. Namitha Kapston
31. Brian Shaler
32. Maulik
33. Christopher Poage(acydlord)
34. Slide To UnLock

Current Needs

 

Geeks.

 

Venue Leads

 

 

UAT is confirmed for the location

 

Sponsor Leads

 

If you know a company who might be open to being a sponsor, please list them here.

 

integrum would be interested in sponsoring something.

 

 

Food sponsors

 

Google Phoenix

 

Known Sponsors

 

Rising Tide Software

 

 

After-party Sponsor

 

Needed