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BarCampTexas

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BarCampTexas will be held in conjunction with BarCampEarth, Saturday August 26th to Monday 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

 

Coordination

  • What's the best way to coordinate? (bi-?)Weekly IRC/IM/conf call? RFC 1149 message protocols?
  • Livejournal community: barcamptexas (If you don't have an lj account, its free and simple to set up. lj account creation page)

 

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?
  • Designing for Mobile/Portable Devices
  • Workshop on Audacity
  • Deploying a Commercial Web Application/Product: War Stories
  • Tips for Building Community & Attracting User Contributions
  • Ad Management Tools: Options other than Google?
  • Calendaring (Caldev, hcalendar, tool comparisons, Outlook exports)
  • Microformats: Commercial Uses
  • Server Virtualization: Xen, UML, OpenVZ, VMWare, etc. Tricks, tips, experiences, battle scars, etc.? Hypervisor technology migrating into the common whitebox server space from the mainframe world is (imho) one of the most exciting things to happen in the systems management world in a while. (I don't have the material/experience to comment much on this one but I'd be fascinated to hear what others have to say.)
  • Why XSLT is sweet for Ajax Widgets
  • Search Engine Optimization

 

Campers

 

 

  • ADD YOURSELF

 

Proposed Locations

 

Austin

  • Thistle Cafe (large enough?)

 

Dallas:

  • Infomart

 

Houston

  • ?

 

Ride share / crash space

(Once we have a location, for people from other places.)

  • (Austin) extra bedroom/bathroom in downtown apt - crothers ~ gmail

 

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)

  • Still no idea of where BarCamp Texas will be held? Word on the grapevine is that whurley is trying to organize the use of the Seaholm power plant in Austin. This is as yet unsubstantiated rumor, though. Austin being relatively central to both DFW and Houston, it's not a bad place to start the site search.

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