Friday, May 11th and Saturday, May 12th, 2007 at CubeSpace
Tech + Geek + Culture. The event for the Portland tech community, produced BY the Portland tech community. Interesting topics, cool people, great networking opportunities, wifi, and free food (don't forget the bubble tea!).
| 4 days until Bar Camp! Sign up now. Please click the 'Edit page' button above and add your name and contact info to the attendee section. The event is open to anyone wanting to attend. Spread the word. Tell a friend. |
| Friday night (May 11th) at CubeSpace from 6-11pm will include schedule planning and a reception sponsored by Weiden+Kennedy and Portland State University. If you want to lead a session or provide input into session planning, please attend the Friday portion of the event. |
| Date | Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12, 2007 [Upcoming Page] |
| Time | FRI: 6pm-11pm Session scheduling, kickoff and networking SAT: 9am-11pm, Bar Camp Sessions and DemoCampPortland1 |
| Location | CubeSpace, Portland, BarCampOregon, USA |
| Cost | Always free! |
| Food | Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner all provided for free (Vegan, Vegetarian, and Meat Eater options!) |
| Schedule | Add a session idea below |
| Expected Attendance | All are welcome! Please add your name to the Attendees section of this page if you are planning to attend. |
Status
Want to learn more about the upcoming BarCamp in Portland? Attend a BarCamp Portland Meetup! The next meetup is on Thursday, May 24th.
Want to help out? Attend a BarCamp Portland planning meeting - every Friday @ 3pm @ CubeSpace, 622 SE Grand. All are welcome!
Sponsors, sponsors, we need sponsors! Help support the Portland tech community.
At a minimum, please add your name to the campers list below if you plan to attend.
We have a chiclet, please add it to your blog!
You can also just embed this HTML into your site, which points back to the hosted image here:
- <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland"><img src="http://barcamp.org/f/barcamp-widget-sm.gif" border="0" width="133" height="52"></a>
We also have BarCampPortlandFlyers to print and share. Please pass these along to anyone who might be interested in attending.
Update 03/16/2007: We have a venue! Thank you to CubeSpace for offering space for the event. CubeSpace has a large number of conference rooms, a large central meeting area, access to public transportation, parking, etc.
Update 04/24/2007: We have secured use of 2 Nintindo Wii for the Friday night Wii party. Much thanks to Kevin from JanRain and Josh Bancroft!!
Update 04/27/2007: First KidBarCamp May 12th. Bring the kids. See below for details and to sign-up. Times still TBD.
Update 04/29/2007: CubeSpace cannot accommodate KidBarCamp. An alternative location will have to be found for this session.
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Organizers
Subteam Leaders:
- Agenda and Materials Manager: Carl Johnson and LaVonne Riemer.
- Organization for agendas, program and materials (projectors, flip charts, etc.)
- Note: BarCamp is self-organizing, but we need the framework, timing (breaks/lunch/start/end), person to facilitate on-site organization meeting (someone experienced with barcamp/foocamp/etc.)
- Location Management: Raven Zachary with help from Rashid / PDC
- Find a location, drive all communications with facility, coordinate food / drinks.
- Space has been found! CubeSpace
- Sponsorships & Marketing Promotions Manager: Sioux Fleming and Kelly Mackin
- Find sponsors, primary point of contact for sponsors, work with sponsors to pay bills.
- Coordinate marketing and promotions for the event & marketing materials for sponsors.
Sponsors
We are actively seeking additional sponsors to help cover amenities. All sponsors will have their logos printed on the event t-shirts and have the opportunity to speak during the event kickoff.
Monthly BarCampPortland Meetup Location and Beer: Jive Software
Facilities: CubeSpace
Facilities (Added Costs): AboutUs, Virtuous
Materials: Lumeno.us
Banners: EasyStreet Online Services
Badges: JanRain
T-Shirts: Portland Development Commission, Mozilla Foundation, and Thetus
Logo Design: Lov.li
Photography: Shane Parker Photo
Podcasting coverage of the event: SplashCast
Friday Night Reception: Wieden+Kennedy and Portland State University
Saturday Breakfast: Iovation
Saturday Lunch: ISITE Design
Saturday Dinner: Microsoft
Saturday Afternoon Tea (Bubble Tea): Portland Perl Mongers
Additional Food Costs: Silicon Mechanics
If you are interested in being a BarCamp/DemoCamp Portland sponsor, please contact DawnFoster.
Sponsorships help with costs such as space, Internet access, A/V, food, t-shirts, BarCamp-style band passes, and promotions.
Volunteers
Prior to the event, we are holding monthly BarCampPortlandMeetups. Please join us.
Want to help out? Attend a BarCamp Portland planning meeting - every Friday @ 3pm @ CubeSpace, 622 SE Grand. All are welcome!
To stay informed, please join the BarCampPortland Google Group.
Immediate needs (more to follow):
- Promotions - please spread the word about BarCampPortland, encourage pre-signups here. Add a BarcampPortlandChiclet to your blog. Download BarCampPortlandFlyers to distribute.
- Power strips - please bring a power strip.
- Sound system - Raven Zachary is providing the wireless mic and amp system for the main room.
- Videographer - CarlJohnson has offered to coordinate video and editing. If you plan to bring a video camera and are wiling to provide the footage to Carl for editing into a 5-minute retrospective video, please contact him.
Proposed Sessions
What do you want to hear, what do you want to say and what could you live without? Are you an expert in something cool? Is there some trend we should know about?
Please visit the BarCampPortlandSessions topic for additional information about sessions and to indicate your interest in attending and/or ability to present!
- Speed Geeking - short, rotating presentations and social networking for small groups
- Speed Networking
- Open Source Efforts in Oregon
- Business for Open Source Companies
- New web analytic models utilizing Open Source and related methodologies
- Open Embedded
- PIC programming using JAL
- Art of Community (open source communities, wiki communities, web 2.0 communities)
- Werewolf game
- UnifiedMessaging infrastructure design using OSS tools
- Cool 3D GPS tracks for pilots and everyone else. May have details of my "poor pilot's blackbox device" project
- Rewilding Portland
- Assessing the city-wifi rollout
- Physical gaming with the Nintendo Wii - who can bring a Wii? [Note: Friday night Wii party is already on the docket and 2 Wii have been secured. See STATUS section above]
- Co-working efforts in Portland
- Hack My PC Contest
- Gaming in the "Real" World - ARGs, location based games, interactive fiction...
- Iterative Application Development - Scrum and FDD
- Jobs / Gigs / Startups - mixer.
- What's on your screen? Share your favorite podcasts, sites & resources. Learn about cool web stuff.
- Switching your parents/family/friends from Windows to Linux.
- Publishing in the 21st Century
- All the cool information management toys (social networking, tagging, semantic web, link analysis), how should they become part of the desktop/browsing metaphor?
- Acknowledgment tools
- OGuild
- SourcetreeCommons
- mapping and visualization tools, especially in regards to understanding and taking the pulse of networks
- network weaving (and how acknowledgment makes networks denser)
- Scaling Rails Applications with Igal Koshevoy -- Practical solutions for making Ruby on Rails fast enough for use on high-traffic websites. Discusses tools and recipes used for optimizing performance, clustering, management and hosting. This technical talk is aimed at programmers and system administrators that want to speed up existing Rails applications or want to do so in the future. You can preview a draft of the PDF presentation slides -- the final set will feature code examples.
- Something on Plone anyone? Richard Amerman 7 Tech NW
- Writing semantic HTML
- The Portland Drupal users' group would like to meet and share ideas about Drupal-based web development. (This group meets informally on a monthly basis, and it works well that way; no formal presentation planned.)
- In search of LOST. Yeah, the TV show.
- IA Slam - participants will be teamed and introduced to a hypothetical project, hypothetical client, and will present the "perfect" solution to the assembled audience.
Schedule
NOTE: This schedule is an early work in progress. Times and rooms will likely change.
Agora: Large break room area, large-group gatherings
Persian and Roman: Main conference rooms, capacity 40 sitting, 60+ standing
Viking, Mongol, Aztec, and Egyptian: Small conference rooms, capacity 12 sitting, 20 standing
Persian and Roman will be used for larger-group presentations and will include a projector for laptops.
Mongol, Aztec, and Egyptian will be used for smaller BoF sessions and impromptu gatherings. It is possible that these rooms will not be reserved in advance, but left open for groups, as needed, thoughout the day.
Transportation and Parking
CubeSpace is located at 622 SE Grand Avenue , on the second floor of the US Bank building between SE Alder & SE Washington.
We strongly encourage you to walk, bike or take public transportation. We do have secure bike parking upstairs at CubeSpace.
You can use ByCycle and Trimet to get directions to CubeSpace. We are on the #6 and #15 bus lines, wihin a few blocks of the #14, #12, #20 and #70 and 3/4 mile from the MAX.
If you are driving, you can use the US Bank lots on SE 6th & Alder, on SE Grand & Washington (right under our space) or the lot on SE 6th and Washington (the former Rose & Raindrop lot). Street parking restrictions end at 7pm, and there are untimed spots on SE 7th and eastward.
Campers
Sign up for BarCampPortland! Campers are attendees. Please add your name and a link and/or contact info.
- RavenZachary, raven@rinzai.com, Saturday only due to London, UK, conference conflict for Friday.
- ThomasLockney, dorkbotpdx, tlockney (@) gmail.com - happy to help out with organizational duties as much as possible.
- Jair, Imaginify
- John Anthony Hartman , johnahartman(at)gmail.com - I think I have a location!!! Eric Rice and I put on the first Bar Camp in Second Life I am really looking forward to this one here in Portland
- JoshBancroft, Intel geek blogger, podcaster, and gadget lover
- Marshall Kirkpatrick, SplashCast marshall@splashcastmedia.com
- Ryan Parr
Expertise: Web Standards, Front-End Architect
Company: Pop Art Inc.
Contact: ryan.parr@popart.com
Notes: I can only make it to Monday the 28th session.
- David Carlson, davidmarkcarlson(at)yahoo.com - I am not sure whether I will be able to attend, but I am interested...
- Carl Johnson - Talk about developing AJAX applications, building on-line vertical communities
- Alex Williams, Feedia, Podcast Hotel alex@feedia.net -- Talk about podcasting.
- Adam Messinger, adam at oatv.com.
- Justin Laing, jlaing at gmail dot com, This sounds really interesting, I run Web Designer's Meetup in Olympia, WA and might be able to get a few people down for this event. My vote would be having it in October or November. MerchantOS - A web based point of sale system
- Al Partridge uselink126(at)gmail.com -- I would like to help and would be willing to present (possibly on Agile Web Development or Scrum?)
- Heather Penner, hpenner(at)isitedesign.com - Newbie.
- Tim Germer, Northwest Noise, ClaimID Profile tgermer (at) gmail (dot) com
- JohnSechrest, [http://www.oregonhightech.com], sechrest at oregonhightech.com
- Dawn Foster, Currently at Jive Software, working on a book about the Art of Community for O'Reilly, and blogging here. email: Dawn ///at/// Dawn Foster ///dotcom///
- Scott Kveton, scott ///at/// kveton dot com
- Marcus Estes, marcus at BoxPopu.li. I can help with podcasting.
- Wil Cooley, wilco@nakedape.cc
- Nick Ames ri at niculo dot us
- MattGifford
- Alexis Turner
- John Labovitz (johnl@johnlabovitz.com)
- David Pool, dp@n4n.org
- Jessica and/or Matt Beck (jessica@couldbestudios.com)
- Robby Russell robby at planetargon dot com.
- Lion Kimbro -- RecentChangesCampPortland2007 contact, Local Names developer
- AudreyEschright
- RaymondKing
- MarcusMalcom
- Lindsey Kuper, lindsey@rockstargirl.org
- Jesse Wolfe ( jes5199 )
- BrandonCsSanders
- GeoffBurling
- Nino Marchetti, nino at marchetticreative dot com
- Reid Beels, reidab at reidab.com, Back in portland!
- Todd Kenefsky - kenefsky at g m a i l dot com
- John Watson (j k w a t s o n @ g m a i l . c o m)
- Aaron Johnson
- Hari Rajagopal ) hrajagopal at yahoo dot com (
- Robert T Bowers (barcamp at badexample dot org)
- ChrisBrentano (ctb at fourone dot org), Download Squad
- Nathan Young (my first name at my domain), can present/participate in conversations on: ajax security, greasemonkey, firebug, jQuery
- marissa anderson (mararupturenet)
- Mark Gross (markgross@thegnar.org)
- Bryan Stearns (stearns at eliot dot com)
- Bart Massey (bart@cs.pdx.edu)
- Dan Mendell of Neutral Space, Inc.
- Erik Walthinsen (omega@vcolo.com)
- Peat Bakke (peat@peat.org)
- Joshua Keroes (my name at my domain) - Guy who does stuff with things at a company. (Attendance tentative)
- Chris Messina and Tara Hunt -- here's hoping we can make it!
- PatrickSullivan (patrickatlovdotli), founder, lov.li
- Jon Perr
- SiouxFleming, sioux.fleming@makereality.com
- Victor Asteinza
- JasonMauer
- james keller of ISITE Design
- KarlAnderson
- Tony Bacon, tony at viggenboy dot com. Emmy Award Winning Editor and olde skool gaming dork. I'd love to offer up a session on Digital Non-Linear Editing and the art of telling a bad story and immediately posting it for the world to see.
- Andres Ferrate, andres /\/at/\/ terraims dot com
- Jen Blackledge, Web and manager of COWPU (Central Oregon Web Professional's Usergroup) - Coldfusion and Flex developer
- VaibhaV Sharma - http://vsharma.net
- Eva Schweber eva@CubeSpacePDX.com. We have a buggy Ruby on Rails POS system and would love a session on making it bigger, stronger, faster (ok, we will just settle for reliable).
- Jaden Lowery - ISITE Design, Web-Shop Monkey and Jr. Info Archytekt
- Joel Burslem - Inman News, social media
- Shawn Smith - Solutions Engineer at The Regence Group. Virtualization, Grid and Development methodologies.
- Alex Malinovich, <first name>(at)<last name>.name
- Hans Friedrich
- Aaron Mark Johnson, amj@mqqn.net
- Alex Polvi
- Rob Bole, One Economy Corporation, rbole@one-economy.com, www.one-economy.com
- Ethan McCutchen
- Kurt Moeller, AOL Authentication and Identity team, kurtfm@aol.com
- Urban Scout Rewilding post-apocalyptic anti-hero with a blog.
- Tim Sears ISITE Design - Can speak to many things .NET
- PhilTomson
- Wm Leler wm AT leler.com - Building a Social Recommendation / Google Map mashup. Would love to demo it and get feedback.
- Steve Neighorn neighorn@scnresearch.com - Principal Bottle Washer at SCNR.
- Michael Brevig ISITE Design - Open Source Web Programmer I<3PHP
- Chris Herz was cherz.com campin@beefpile.com - now CS student @ PSU - total geek getting into AI.
- Sarah Gilbert . - I run the financial blogs at AOL.
- Greg Lund-Chaix - FOSS & government
- Tim Witham Lightfleet twitham@lightfleet.com
- Ken Beare About.com kbeare at gmail dot com
- Justin Kistner Metafluence & Nemo Design
- Rebecca Campbell
- Jason Gross rnanetworks.com
- Josh Pope - Nemo Design Web Developer
- David Recordon - http://www.davidrecordon.com
- Dunbar Aitkens Glass Plate Game
- Aaron Nelson - Meyer Memorial Trust
- Jason Kirtland - Virtuous
- Jason Watkins
- Aaron Huslage - Consultant, Innovator, System Administrator
- Kew L. Ang - Coming all the way from Malaysia...
- Surj Patel surj dot patel at gmail - ex MIT Media Lab Dork, freelance and non profit work. Caught in the OReilly gravitational pull(ETEL). Currently deeply interested in healthcare tools and web / phone delivery of.
- Jean Russell - from Chicago
- Rashid Ahmed - Portland Development Commission - ahmedr at pdc dot com
- Allison Randal allison at perl dot org
- Ian Dees - undees at gmail
- Jen Redman
- Andy Grover
- Steve Morris
- Mark Molau, mmolau@gmail.com, Interested in emerging analytics s in the Open Source community.
- Caleb Phillips - Maybe. Will there be beer at barcamp?
- Serhan Ceran, serhanceran@hotmail.com
- Dave Kresta
- Ben Bleything
- Kevin Turner
- Willem Larsen Weaving the ancient into the modern.
- Ward Cunningham Interested in numerical and simulation models of community (i.e. wiki) behavior.
- Renny Gleeson
- Lewis Hoffman
- BrianEllin
- Ben Kaplan
- David Kominsky
- Eric Wilhelm
- Chris Rempel
- Carlos Rodriguez
- John Bartley K7AAY - callsign at ARRL dot NET - Network Response Lead, Oregon Trail Chapter, American Red Cross
- Sam Keen
- Jeff Schwaber
- DiAnn Eisnor
- Jason Wilson
- Joseph Poon
- Thien Nguyen
- Jon Duell
- Farb Nivi
- G D Milner
- Rich Bader - EasyStreet Online Services
- Andrew Morton
- Brian Dorsey
- David Lemke david@lemkecreative.com
- Steve Gehlen, Internet Strategy Forum
- Chuck Kisselburg - pdxchuck at comcast dot net
- Ankist Zadeyan / HeyNeighbor.info
- Lev Tsypin - [http:levelos.com Level Online Strategy]
- Justin Gallardo - OSL Software Developer - OLPC Developer
- Arvind Kalyan - Web/Database Developer, School of EECS, Oregon State University
- Brandon Corry - MSN Mobile Microsoft
- Devin Ben-Hur - devin aht ben-hur doht net
- Luke Matkins - Yottamusic
- nebiyu yohannes - nebiyu at ethios dot org
- Holly Ross, NTEN
- Cooper Francis
- William Henderson
- Mike Wills, Reformed Web PM, now Web Marketing
- IgalKoshevoy - Business and technology consultant, been building web applications since '94 using Ruby, Java, Python and Perl on UNIX.
- Jeremiah Reams - Founder of The Kastner Group and ThePortlander
- Tim Budd - budd-at-acm.org Teaching FOSS in the university setting
- Pete Forsyth - using tech as organizing/educational tool, local and national politics, bikes, baseball.
- David Mirly - david at mirly dot org
- Jeanette Busse
- Jim Snow
- Duncan Beevers
- Tom Olsen, Thetus Corporation
- Bob Lehman PTC Solutions Architect
- Jesse Hallett, hallettj@gmail.com
- Shane Parker - mail ~AT~ shanelparker ~DOT~ com
- Christopher Knaus
- Richard Amerman, 7 Tech NW LLC fifer@7technw.com
- Lorraine Bessmer - EasyStreet Online Services
- Dag Arneson
- Arnold Benson - arrrghnold@@@@googles mail....com
- BillBurcham, email, blog Ich bin ein Portlander now.
- Kim Wallmark Interested in emergent behavior and human-computer interaction.
- Cy Khormaee
- Mark Perry
- Sean Tong
- Drew Kalina
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Overnight
A number of people are driving into Portland for the event and will need a place to spend the night on Friday, and possibly Saturday night, as well. If you are needing space, or are offering it, please list yourself here.
I need a place to stay:
I have overnight space to offer:
What to Bring
- Laptop with wireless card and a power supply
- A power strip to share outlets
- Camera (Flickr tag: barcampportland)
- Business cards
- Things to show and do
Signs
Notes for Raven
- 3 foot tall by 8 foot wide long banner, can be used for stairwell or Agora
- boards with tripod stands - sponsors, logo, schedule
- 34 inches tall by 27 inches wide - fornt door
- DemoCamp banner?
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