Bar Camp Portland - May 11 & 12 at CubeSpace

Status

Want to learn more about the upcoming BarCamp in Portland? Attend a BarCamp Portland Meetup! The next meetup is on Thursday, April 26nd.

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:

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.

Tags

barcampportland

Organizers

• RavenZachary - one of the organizers of BarCamp Austin (but now a Portland resident)
• DawnFoster

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.

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?

• Speed Geeking - short, rotating presentations and social networking for small groups
• Open Source Efforts in Oregon
• Business Models for Open Source Companies
• Open Embedded hacking
• PIC programming using JAL
• Art of Community (open source communities, wiki communities, web 2.0 communities)
• Werewolf game
• UnifiedMessaging infrastructure design using OSS tools
• Rewilding Portland

Schedule

Friday (5/11/07):

6pm-11pm: Open Reception, Session Planning, and Networking

Saturday (5/12/07):

9am-6:30pm: BarCampPortland Sessions

6:30pm-11pm: DemoCampPortland1 and Networking

Sponsors

We are actively seeking addition 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, Jive Software

Facilities (Added Costs): AboutUs, Virtuous

Materials: Lumeno.us

Badges: JanRain

T-Shirts: SPONSOR NEEDED, Obtaining pricing now, more details soon

Logo Design: Lov.li

Podcasting coverage of the event: SplashCast

Saturday Breakfast: SPONSOR NEEDED, ~$400

Saturday Lunch:  ISITE Design

Saturday Dinner: Microsoft

Friday Night Reception: SPONSOR NEEDED

Saturday Night Reception: SPONSOR NEEDED

Saturday Afternoon Tea (Bubble Tea): SPONSOR NEEDED, ~$500

If you are interested in being a BarCamp/DemoCamp Portland sponsor, please contact RavenZachary and 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.

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, TechCrunch, NetSquared marshall@techcrunch.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...
• 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.
• 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 Compiere, working on a book about the Art of Community for O'Reilly, and blogging here and 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
• MarkDilley Quick and dirty tech group organizing space
• 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)
• Justin Laing MerchantOS - A web based point of sale system Sounds like fun, I live in Olympia but love visiting Portland!
• 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 --would love to present/participate in the community discussion if you need the help
• 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 Mistress 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.
• Jay Fichialos - Sabre Labs
• 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

Overnight

A number of people are driving into Portland for the event and will need a play 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:

• Hans Friedrich

I have overnight space to offer:

What to Bring

• Laptop with wireless card and a power supply
• Camera (Flickr tag: barcampportland)
• Business cards
• Things to show and do

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