(As stolen from BarCampNYC and BarCampLosAngeles, as copied from BarCampSanDiego) BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference 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.
This event is part of the TorCamp phenomenon, started last November. It's grown from about 50 at TorCamp 1 to over 140 at the last TorCamp DemoCamp.
All attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one. All presentions 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
On that note, interested in participating in the XP Project Room? Even if you just want to drop in, we wouldn't mind knowing how many folks to expect. Learn more and declare your interest here: IplanToStopByTheProjectRoom.
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 here:
Sponsors
Many thanks to the wonderful BarCampTdotSponsors! Go checkout the list of amazing with-it companies and individuals. We'll wait right here.
Hosts
Why
To learn, meet people who share different interests, contribute, and push yourself and your thinking. Besides, Chris and I will be in town, so why not have a BarCamp?!
When
May 13-14, 2006
Saturday noon-ish - Sunday noon-ish
PLEASE NOTE: Sunday the 14th of May is Mother's Day - if there is interest then there will be events, but go hang out with your Mom if that's your thing. Or bring her to BarCamp!
Where
171 East Liberty St.
Toronto, ON
M6K 3P6
BarCamp TDot
Photos
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Event Schedule
Let's make this very conversational, more revolutionary...not limiting it to that, but, would love to hear from you about how you want to change the world. What has pissed you off? What do you want to change and how do you see it changing? Through technology? Through practice? Through organizing? Of course, it's still waaaay open for technology discussions and demos.
The Toronto Drupal Group (DUG) is organising a Drupal camp DrupalCampToronto on May 12th (immediately before BarCampTdot).
SD Campers
TO Campers
- DavidCrow of DavidCrow.ca
- BryceJohnson - Navantis:TheChickenTest - Beyond Software - User/Domain Research as a Strategic Asset for a Organization, Part II
- Mike McDerment of 2ndSite Online Invoicing
- Kaleem Khan
- RobHyndman of Hyndman | Law
- Thomas Purves
- MarkKuznicki of Remarkk! - A Discussion of Open Source Business Models: Beyond the Code
- Matthew Burpee
- Matthew Milan
- SuthaKamal at AmbientVector
- PatrickDinnen - Hogtown Consulting
- CraigSaila
- DeborahHartmann
- Dan Grigsby - flying in from Minneapolis to attend
- JohnPhilipGreen from Nuvvo eLearning Planning to present \"Graphics Design for Programmers\"
- Malgosia Green from Nuvvo eLearning
- Estelle Havva
- John Resig - Juniper Bay and jQuery
- Julia West - Juniper Bay
- Chris Nolan.ca
- Jay Goldman
- Michael Glenn - Radiant Core
- Pete Forde
- Ryan McMinn
- Sunir Shah
- Gabriel Grant
- Jevon MacDonald
- Robert Ouellette & Tom George
- Ryan McKegney - RedFlagDeals.com
- Derek Szeto - RedFlagDeals.com
- Rehan Zaidi
- Siobhan McLaughlin http://siobhan.blogware.com
- Eli Singer
- Scott Brooks - ConceptShare
- Bernie Aho - ConceptShare
- Phillip Smith
- Albert Lai - BubbleShare
- Michael Bodalski - Spazsquatch.com
- Dan Thorne - CampusCentral.com
- Chris Erwin - CampusCentral.com
- Dave Bobak - CampusCentral.com
- Dave Rapin - ExtendMedia Inc.
- Jen Nolan mewren.com, kekova.ca Presenting "Ruby vs Java - let the war begin" and BlogHerNorth
- Jason Robinson PlanetYou.net
- Salim Teja Brightspark
- Dmitry Buterin Bonasource
- Alex de Bold
- Minaz Abdulla - AmbientVector
- Mike Lawlor - AmbientVector
- Brian Ivanovick
- Gord MacLeod - MOI
- Pavel Simakov - 3Genius
- Taylan Pince - taylanpince.com
- Jonathan Resnick
- Alf Eaton
- Ken Schafer - Tucows, One Degree
- Daniel Charles - DNA Charles
- Lynda Chiotti
- Sacha Chua - social bookmarking in the enterprise? =)
- MikeWalsh
- AmberMac
- Sebastien Chorney @ Podzapper
- JonLax
- GeoffTeehan
- RandyCharlesMorin
- Michael Clarke
- Gary King
- Rohan Jayasekera
- Martin Cleaver
- Ajay Krishnan - Nuvvo, Chief Security Officer aboard the Starship Enterprise
- Stuart MacDonald
- Mathew Ingram
- Mark Evans
- Brandon Flowers - Headwinds Studio
- Sulemaan Ahmed - SearsTravel.ca
- Bryan Watson - EP Enterprises
- Bill Brockbank - Navantis
- DerekLaventure - Anarres Worker Co-op, Inc.
- Kedar Tupil - Syndesis was told to check BarCamp out, let's see...
- Jacob Appelbaum - appelbaum.net
- Kate Trgovac - mynameiskate I will be there to talk about BlogHerNorth and reaching the broader blogging community in Canada
- Sandy Kemsley - Column 2 I'll be joining Kate and others to talk about BlogHerNorth
- Quinn Fung - student
- David Janes - BlogMatrix
- Chad Randall
Montreal Campers
- Miriam Verburg - Flink Design 3'sCo. Will be part of presentation about BlogHerNorth.
- Jen Schultes ting-ting Design 3'sCo. Designer who does a lot of not-for-profit community web sites and likes drupal a lot.
- Roland Tanglao of Bryght - I am flying in from Vancouver and so -is- are Boris and Richard, yeah! I'm up to do a movie like I did for BarCampAmsterdam as well as take lots of photos and do podcasts and videoblogs as well as some krazy :-) stuff TBD. Can we get Boris to cook at some point? That would be fab! Finally I have to leave at 1p.m. Sunday for a Monther's Day late lunch with my mom in Hamilton but I'll be back for late night festivites. Sunday night pub crawl anybody?
- Richard Eriksson of Bryght
- Boris Mann of Bryght - I would be happyto help wrangle prepping and cooking if facilities are available
- Joanna Briggs
- Alexei White - eBusiness Applications & AjaxInfo
- Mark Yuasa - mark@raincitystudios.com / Creative Director of Raincity Studios, a Drupal and Ruby on Rails design and development studio.
Ottawa Campers
- Craig Fitzpatrick Devshop.com Blog: Uncommon Sense (for Software)
- Scott Lake JadedPixel Technologica
- RyanLowe blog fanconcert
- Peter Childs
- Sebastien Bailard reprap.blogspot.com I'll give a talk about self-reproducing 3D printers, if anyone is interested. Also, I'd like to beg a ride off another Ottawa Camper. (Will pay for gas.)
We are looking for stuff:
- Projectors
- BorisMann: I can bring a projector with me
- AlexeiWhite: EBA sponsored projector from the west to the east!
- Audio equipment
Sponsor Furniture
See the BarCampTdotPlanning page. Wowsers! Furniture was almost double what was initially planned. Furniture rental is $1115 that includes 150 chairs, 15 tables + linens, and 5 garbage cans. We might need 2 extra sponsors to help cover these costs.
Sponsor Shirts
We were lucky and received sponsorship for t-shirts for the first TorCamp aka BarCampToronto. We used Artik on King Street West. We printed on Fruit of the Loom cotton t-shirts, with 2 color front and back screen. $893.55/60 shirts = $14.89/shirt including screening, setup and taxes. Current estimates are for 100 t-shirts would require approximately 6 sponsors at $250/sponsor ($1,489/100 t-shirts).
It might be worth checking out Hardboiled Inc. in Kensington Market. According to my napkin calculations 100, 2-colour, front + back printed t-shirts would cost a total of $983 for Fruit of the Loom and $1,541 for American Apparel (more expensive but probably less sweatshoppy) shirts. PatrickDinnen We used Artik the last time entirely because of timing, i.e., we did not raise the required sponsorship until too close to the time and Hardboiled couldn't handle the incredibly (unreasonably) short time period. If we're able to raise the necessary sponsorship (and this comes after furniture rental, cleaning supplies, etc) and there is still enough time Hardboiled is on the list.
Sponsor Food
Estimated at $250/meal, though this number might be low. We're also estimating approximately $250 for pop, water, snacks, etc.
- Pop, water, juice, snacks, etc.
- Saturday Lunch
- Saturday Dinner
- Sunday Breakfast
- Sunday Lunch
Have something you can donate? Want to chip in for food/drinks! Great! Let us know.
Or you can donate cash as an individual to the "Eats for Geeks" fundraiser at fundable.org, and show your support!
