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.
Tags
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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.
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 share a parking lot with the US Bank, located at SE 6th & SE Alder.
Click here to see a Google map of our location, and to get directions.
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, and #70, href="http://www.trimet.org/schedules/r020.htm" target="_blank">#20and 3/4 mile from the MAX.
