Announcing BarCampSanMarcos - in San Marcos, Texas :)
Date: October 5th & 6th 2007
Barcamp is Free. Blogtoberfest is $20 and $10 for students.
All of this is happening at Gordo's on The Square, 120 E. San Antonio
St., San Marcos, Texas, 78666.
Time: 9am - ~5pm on October 6th
Who is organizing this event?
I recommend looking at videos from LA, Austin and San Francisco. These capture the essence and wide range of things that happen at Barcamp. BarCamp SF, What is a BarCamp and BarCamp Austin.
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How can I stay up to date?
Planning Status
What will we be doing?
- Technology
- Design
- Entrepreneurship
- NEW Workshop Track - The workshop track is designed to allow for longer workshop based presentations. We want to do nominations to see which workshops people want to see most. Nominate your workshop ideas below.
- POSSIBLE Demo Track - Demo your latest software or product wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet
Possible Workshop Tracks
We hope to vote on the nominated workshops in a couple of weeks. If you have a workshop you would like to nominate, list it below.
- Visual Thinking Workshop - Kelsey Ruger
- Entrepreneur's Workshop - ?
- Copywriting Workshop - ?
- Guerrilla Marketing Workshop - ?
- Web Frameworks Workshop - ?
- Web Standards Workshop - ?
- Legal Aspects to Technology Start-ups - ?
Sessions
Post any sessions that you're willing to present here. If there is a specific topic you would like to see presented on, please add it to the requested sessions section.
- Collaborating Toward Community 2.0 and Beyond (Erica O'Grady)
- Grid based web design (Kelsey Ruger)
Requested Sessions
- Adobe AIR and Flash: What's new in Rich Internet applications
- Exploring .NET, Silverlight, & Blend
- What's next in social networking
- Hope is not a strategy: business models for social networking and web 2.0 applications
- Houston's Tech Goals for 2007-2008
- Social Networking Cookbook: What makes a good social network
- New technology, education and library science
- What is the 4-hour work week (Erica - maybe???)
- Exploring the Personal MBA
- Co-Working San Marcos: Updates and Strategies
- Modern Marketing and PR Strategies (Social Media Optimization, Buzz Marketing, Word of Mouth Marketing)
- Design Strategies: What's Next
- Building a great Web Team
- iPhone Developer's Camp Review and Highlights
- Ruby and Rails vs. Python Django vs. Grails on Java
- Challenges & Strategies for enterprise adoption of Web 2.0
- Google AdSense placement for increased revenue without turning off readers
- Successful Technology Start-Ups: From Start to Exit
- Technology Start-Ups: moving past the start-up stage
- Getting Started in Open Source: How to participate in an Open Source Project
- Designer's Toolkit: Tools every designer should consider
- Developer's Toolkit: Tools every developer should consider
- Themeing Drupal
- Serious Games
What should I bring?
- Laptop with wireless card and a power supply
- A power strip to share outlets
- Camera (Flickr tag: barcampsanmarcos)
Please add your name at the end of the list (make sure you don't accidentally erase someone else's name).
- Silona Bonewald League of Technical Voters
Glenda "the goodwitch" Sims Glenda the Good (home with sick kids :(- David Matocha - Matocha & Associates, FortBendDemocrats.com
- Pat Ramsey - patramsey.net
- Michael De Leon Project Spurs The Spurscast
- Henry Halff Halff Resources
- Tom Brown OpenSourceCurrency
- Shaine Mata RGV New Media
- Jennifer Navarrete San Antonio Podcasters Morning BrewCast
- Carol Turner Hello World
- Arturo Nunez
- Jackie Adame Morning BrewCast
- Cone Johnson conejohnson at gmail - so disappointed! I can't make it. I seem to be sick with the crud...
- Richard Yoo - Founder Rackspace & Serverbeach - Sorry, just couldn't make it down there :( (erica, you need to space these out! :D )
- MeetingFlex.com - Corporate Social Networking
Sponsors
We'll need a few sponsors for this event. Please sign-up here if you know of someone or some organization who would like to sponsor this event.
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