Event Info

What : BarCampRochester3

Where : B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (Google Map) -, 2455, 2590, 2690, 2400, and 1400 (if necessary)

When : Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 10:00am(9:30 meet & greet) - Late Night

Cost : It's free, of course!

Tag : barcamprochester3

How to sign up : click "Edit Page" up at the top, and add your name to Campers - done! Now head to "What".

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What is BarCamp?

In the spirit of FooCamp, 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 attendees.

All attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall.

Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can't be present.

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS!

When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.

You can learn more about BarCamp in this Wired Magazine article. There is another nice article here. Take a look at video summaries from BarCamp SF and BarCamp Austin.

Who

This is a multi-disciplinary event... meaning that we want designers, developers, marketers, engineers, artists, thinkers and reality-checkers... no more bubbles -- we want cross-pollination! If you want in, like technology, to build things or asking good questions, you should come!

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING A CAMPER OR HOST: Edit the wiki to add yourself and/or contact Patrick Tribble :)

What

Trouble getting an idea of what your session's about? No problem! Talk about whatever fires you up - whatever you'd like to see happen - what big questions do you want answers to - what do you want to find out from your peers?

Check out Scott Berkun's How to run a great unconference session.

Ideas for Topics

• What's the significance of "local" when we all work online?
• Innovation, Invention, Entrepreneurship
• Designer/Developer speed-"dating"? :) (not necessarily to matchup on a project (though this may, well and good, be some folks' aim), but just to get a feel for the skills different folks bring to the table in the area.)
• New interfaces
  • FTIR
  • Multitouch gesture recognition and interface design
  • Wiimote interface hacking
• OpenID
• Rochester startups/startups in general
• Blogging
• Illegal File Sharing, Tor, Onion Routing
• JavaScript Libraries
• Network Neutrality
• Atom, RSS, Semantic Web, REST
• Language Geekery, Tools, and Web Frameworks
  • Ruby, Rails, Camping
  • Python, its multitude of web frameworks
  • Smalltalk, Seaside
  • Type Inference, IDEs (Software Development Tools seminar course in RIT CS)
  • Apollo, Slingshot, Silverlight: the convergence of web and desktop apps
• Social Networks
  • Generally (MySpace, Facebook)
  • Mining data (there is a research project for rumor tracking on social networks in the RIT Math department, will be present)
• Usability Testing
  • Eye Tracking
• VOIP
• War Driving
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
• Wikis
• Any projects that people are working on...

Activities

• Get a semi-organized game of Half Baked going? : )
• Organize a logic puzzle challenge of some sort. If you're interested in helping contact (mdumont at csh dot rit dot edu).
• Maybe during dinner, have old-skool video games on the projectors, or something?
• We're thinking of having an open hangout room do people have any feelings about this?