Event Info
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".
News
2/8/08 - We have a facebook group now. Search BarCampRochester3 and it should hopefully come up. If you don't use facebook don't worry this page will be considered the most up-to-date source of information.
1/30/08 - Welcome to Bar Camp Rochester 3. We had a great time last year with BCR2 and everyones looking forward to another exciting camp. If you have any questions feel free to contact Sela Davis (rune-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu) if you have any questions. Otherwise, look for updates here! -Mike Dumont
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.
Venture over to the BarcampRochester tag on Flickr for photos from the previous two events!
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 Sela Davis (rune-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu) :)
Campers
| Camper | URL or Email | Potential Topic(s) | T-Shirt Size |
| Sela Davis | rune-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu | Multitouch, World Of Conflict/Resolve: Collaborative Multimedia Art (And The Challenges Involved) | S |
| Michael Dumont | mdumont-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu | Discussion: Using Robotics and Video Games in Computer Science Education, Multitouch, Using the Wiimote | L |
| Joe Bauser | http://coderjoe.net | Own your data: "Take back your social graph" or "Don't steal my friends bro". Alternative interests/topics: Computer Network Security/Forensics, Firefox Extension Development. | M |
| Braden Allchin | brady-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu | Currently undecided, possibly merits of data portability, direction of software development (agile) | M |
| Jeremy Grosser | synack-at-neohippie-dot-net | Undecided, maybe something about building virtual network labs with open source software and cheap hardware. | XL |
| David Brenner | davidb-at-csh-dot-rit.-dot-edu | Undecided, potentially what programmers should know about CPUs/Hardware Design | M |
| Cheston Lee | nast-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu | Turbogears? Pylons? Maybe just COMET? It will probably be python related | S |
| Andrew J Younge | ajy4490@rit.edu | Grid Computing using Globus and BOINC, my rumor research project, AI in wireless sensor networks | L |
| James Turk | jpt2433@rit.edu | Possibly Django and possibly open government data | M |
| Chris Acheson | chrisa@eriecoast.com | Something about digital bearer certificate (electronic currency) systems. I'll nail down the specifics later. | S |
| Bob Aman | http://sporkmonger.com/ | Lightweight Web Frameworks | M |
| Jason Morrison | http://jayunit.net | idk, my bffs: synthetic biology from a software perspective, semantic web, distributed CMS, open science | M |
| Al Biles | http://www.it.rit.edu/~jab/ | Discussion on Creativity - its nature, manifestations, facilitation, etc. | L |
| Sean Hayes | http://ritsife.org/ | SIFE & Entrepreneurship, TBD | L |
| Karl Voelker | kvoelker@csh.rit.edu http://karlv.net/ | Possibly XSLT, Perl 6, the Dvorak keyboard, strategy board games | L |
| Ryan Donahue | ryan@ryandonahue.net http://www.ryandonahue.net/ | Museum Informatics, Enterprise Website management, who knows? | XL |
| Adam Lindsay | adam-at-nextfeature-com | Co-Working Rochester (About to launch the first co-working space in Rochester. By BarCamp we should have a lot to talk about. Challenges, experiences, what not. | L |
| Mark Tran | | Arc, Common Lisp | S |
| Chris Horn | chorn-at-chorn-dot-com | VoIP doesn't suck | XL |
| Justin Thorp | justin@clearspring.com http://drinkingoatmealstout.com | Making Your Web Content Viral Using Widgets | XL |
| Sam Cole | sam@samuelcole.name http://samuelcole.name | Story Telling on the Web | L |
Hosts
| Sela Davis | rune-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu |
| Michael Dumont | mdumont-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu |
| Braden Allchin | brady-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu |
What we need
- If you want to bring snacks or non-alcoholic beverages to share feel free.
- If you know of anyone that would be interested in donating contact Sela Davis (rune-at-csh-dot-rit-dot-edu)
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
- Erlang, basics to web/db
- 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
- 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?
Suggestions
Post any suggestions you have for us here and we'll keep them all in mind. If you can post contact info with each suggestion that would be good too.
