Bar Camp Portland 2 on May 2, 3, & 4
Location: Cubespace
622 SE Grand Ave.
Portland, OR 97214
CubeSpaceParking
What is BarCampPortland? -- Portland Geek Culture
BarCampPortland is an unconference for the Portland tech community, produced BY the Portland tech community. Interesting topics, cool people, great networking opportunities, wifi, and more! Building an active tech community in Portland, Oregon.
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. You never quite know what to expect at BarCamp. When you arrive on Friday, there will be an agenda framework (times / rooms), but the content for the sessions will be decided by the participants.
Where to stay?
http://www.traveloregon.com/Explore-Oregon/Portland-Metro/Places-To-Stay.aspx
http://www.hostelhandbook.com/usa/orport.htm
Looking for someone to stay with
- John Abbe (Fri & Sat nights, maybe Sat only)
- add your name / contact info here
Have space for someone to stay
- add your name / contact info here
What to do now
- Donate & Get a t-shirt we don't have enough sponsorship dollars to cover the t-shirts this year, but you can get a t-shirt with a donation to BarCampPortland! Orders must be placed by April 26.
- RSVP for the event on Upcoming; edit this page and add yourself to the "Campers" section to help us learn more about you
- Sponsor! These events can't be successful without our sponsors. Contact Selena Decklemann (selenamarie on gmail) if you would like to sponsor a portion of the event.
- Join our Mailing List: Sign up for our Google Group to get email announcements about future meetups and events.
- Tell your friends: Don't forget to use the BarCampPortland tag when blogging, posting pictures, etc.
Sponsors
Thank you to all our generous sponsors this year.
A banner with all the logos is coming soon!
Organizing Committee
- Dawn Foster - Organization, meetings, etc.
- Selena Decklemann - Lining up sponsors. Finding and publishing a place to post notes from sessions, etc.
- Audrey Eschright - Coordinating food / catering. Scheduling: post-its, schedule board / framework
- Raven Zachary - Logistics and volunteer round-up, coordinating registration desk volunteers
Mara Collins: KidCamp on Sunday so that people can bring kids? KidCamp isn't going to work at CubeSpace. We'd need to hold it somewhere else.- Adam Duvander - t-shirts
- Todd Kenefsky - Hanger on.
Rough Agenda
Friday, May 2
6:00 - 7:00pm: Registration / Networking
7:00 - 7:30pm: Kickoff
7:30 - 10:00pm: Session Planning / Agenda Setting (maybe some werewolf?)
Note: If you want to present or have input into the agenda, Friday night is your chance!!
Saturday, May 3
9:00 - 9:30am: Breakfast / Networking
9:30 - 10:00: Morning kickoff
10:00 - 12:45: Sessions
1:00 - 2:00: Lunch
2:00 - 6:00: Sessions
6:00 - 7:00: Dinner
7:00 - 11:00: Evening activities TBD
Sunday, May 4
9:00 - 10:00am: Breakfast / Networking
10:00 - 2:00: Sessions
2:00 - 3:00: Wrap-up (and clean up)
Possible Topics
- Who are we? Exploring the Portland tech community
- Bread, cheese, and beer: fun with cultured and fermented foods
- "Fringe" Languages (Haskell, Erlang, Scala, R, ...)
- Exploring the intersection between design and geekdom (in hopes of bringing the two worlds closer together.) When you should think like a designer, and when as a geek? Also: typography.
- I’m looking for partners in crime/collaborators... -- BramPitoyo
- If there's any interest, I'm thinking about a "Let's talk DSLRs" session. I can talk general stuff, and Canon. Would be cool to have some Nikon users chime in as well. -- AaronHockley
- Wagn demo. Also, Venn interface, and generally wondering why cool visualizations don't allow editing and what to do about it. --JohnAbbe
- BIKES --SelenaDeckelmann
- What Tech Women Want recording session --SelenaDeckelmann
- Where are the bottlenecks in your application? Processor? Memory? I/O? How did you solve it?
- Excellent OO design. Roundtable discussion --JohnWatson
Campers
PLEASE RSVP on Upcoming to help us plan for things like food and space!
DawnFoster
AudreyEschright
ToddKenefsky
RavenZachary
ChrisBrentano
BartMassey
BrandonPhilips
AaronHockley
GrantKruger
TheresaPridemore
AdronHall
SamKeen
KrisAmundson
ReidBeels
KevinScaldeferri
SarahDavies
SamLivingstonGray
BramPitoyo
DonnieBerkholz
AbrahamHyatt
JohnAbbe
AkshayDodeja
WmLeler
NickJacobsen
PatrickSullivan
ElizabethGrigg
JohnWatson
Stay Connected
Take a look at the Flickr photos from past meetups and events.
Check out other Portland-area technology communities at PDXgroups.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
BarCampPortland1, May 11-12, 2007
DemoCampPortland1, May 12, 2007
Contacts
DawnFoster & AudreyEschright
Random Organizational Notes
Blogging is on the Legion of Tech as a category.
Upcoming for RSVPs and add yourself to the wiki.
Anything else we could do on Sunday to draw people back?
Comments
OMG I love the 2008 logo! Kudos -PatrickSullivan
