BarCampTexas

BarCampTexas will be held in conjunction with BarCampEarth, August 26-28th.

What is BarCampTexas? Well, the organizers of BarCampAustin, BarCampDallas, and BarCampHouston have decided to join forces and create BarCampTexas! The goal is to get over 1000 campers to join together August 26th-28th. We will be updating this site often so sign up, check back, and participate!

Hosts

• whurley
• Jay Fichialos - quadmod(at)fichialos(dot)org
• Erica O'Grady - Creativerse  | erica@creativerse.com
• Lynn Bender GeekAustin / Austin Lunchies
• Richard Goodwin (assisted in previous BarCampAustin and Wordpress Meetup organizer) - http://www.richardgoodwin.com
• Carl de Cordova - http://www.decordova.us/journal

Proposed Sessions

what do you want to hear, what do you want to say and what could you live without? Are you an expert in something cool? Is there some trend we should know about?

• Agile Development experience reports - what has worked in your organization? What hasn't?
• Scalability. This could be either general routes to engineering for scale, or technology/platform/software stack-specific post mortems (e.g. I know how to do this with LAMP, but I'm curious how RoR would change the picture, or J2EE, or...). What happens when your site's url is in the screen crawl on CNN Headline news?

Campers

• Kevin Crothers, credibilityiscurrency.com
• Richard Yoo - http://www.richardyoo.com
• Decibel! - http://decibel.org
• Todd M - Participant in BarCampDallas and CocoaDevHouse now an Austin resident
• Giovanni Gallucci - http://www.MediaSwamp.com & http://www.TheAgencyBlog.com
• Marc Nathan - http://www.bulldogfinancial.com & http://barcamp.org/BarCampHouston
• Kelsey Ruger - http://www.themoleskin.com & http://barcamp.org/BarCampHouston
• Don Parsons - BarCampHouston parsons.don@gmail.com
• Sunil K. - http://www.asurasunil.com
• Alexander Muse - http://texasstartupblog.com
• Brian Oberkrich - http://weblogswork.com
• Scott Ryan - http://pd.architel.com
• Alex Leverington - http://simpleticketblog.weblogwork.com
• Rodrigo Cordova - http://biginjapan.weblogswork.com/
• John Ross - http://www.architel.com
• Jason Smedley - http://www.architel.com
• Steve Donie (if it is in Austin, possibly if in Houston) http://donie.endofinternet.org/pebble/Steve/
• Cinnamon Knox | cinnamon.knox@cfisd.net
• Michael Jackson - http://p3rlm0nk.livejournal.com & GeekAustin

• ADD YOURSELF

Questions

• So, this is BarCampHouston, Dallas, and Austin put together in one big event? If so, do you guys have a location in mind? Austin is centrally located...
• Feeding off the above, this might be a good place to discuss ride sharing / crash space finding.
• What were the attendances at each of the different camps? There were probably a good several hundred at the Austin version in the spring, I'm guessing 400-600 over the entire course of the day. (MJ)