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BarCampTexas

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See BarCampTX to be held on January 26th and 27th, 2008 in Bryan/College Station, TX.

Below is the history of the first one, held in Austin.

 

 

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

 

Need a place to stay?

The Days Inn at 183 and I-35 is offering a BarCampTexas discount! Mention "BarCampTexas" and they'll give you a discounted nightly rate of $44.95.

 

Breakdown of Events (Venue Change!):

 

Friday Evening (August 25th) Pre-Event Mixer: 8:00PM til ...

Location: Epoch Coffee (map)

Austin's newest and only independent 24hr coffeehouse is located just minutes north of downtown, in the North Loop neighborhood. Courtesy of GeekAustin, we will be pouring Austin's own Live Oak Hefeweizen.

 

Saturday (August 26th)BarCampTexas: 12 noon - 10PM

Location: Elysium (map)

Following the departure of Thistle Cafe, Elysium has graciously offered to host BarCampTexas. Elysium is a 4 time winner of the Chronicle's Best of Austin award for best dance club.

 

Sunday (August 27th)

BarCampTexas Brunch 11AM - 2PM

Location: Triumph Cafe (map)

 

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-27th. We will be updating this site often so sign up, check back, and participate!

 

BarCampTexas will be PODCAST!!!!

 

Thanks to our AV Guys at: Word Life Productions all presentations in the main room at BarCampTexas will be recorded and Podcast!

 

Please post URLs to your photos, podcasts, video!

 

 

Hosts

 

Coordination

 

 

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.) - Alex Leverington would be good here.
  • Why XSLT is sweet for Ajax Widgets
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Moving your life or business from desktop apps to webapps. Where do you keep your data, and who can you trust? The benefits and perils of Web 2.0.
  • Cool CSS menu tricks: using suckerfish drop downs and/or classes in the <body> tag.
  • Setting Your Mac Up--soup-to-nuts from the basics to Darwin Ports, subversion, and leveraging the unix underneath with the sweet, sweet Aqua goodness.
  • Implications/analysis of whatever Apple announces at WWDC (if anything)
  • Everything Developers Need to Know about End User Documentation in 30 Minutes or Less
  • Reading On the Run: Ebooks for Fun and Profit
  • Lego Mindstorm NXT hacking (maybe someone from NI is willing to show up)
  • Current and future trends of intrusion prevention software
  • How to get 100 links in 10 business days or less
  • Writing Mac software for ??? and profit!!!

 

Campers

 

 

Press

Lorin Rivers (lrivers) is coordinating PR for BarCampTexas and handling local Austin press.

Larry Chu and Erica Grady are coordinating local Houston "Press" coverage.

 

Sponsors

 

Stuff We Need

  • ???

Ride share / crash space

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

  • Who's coming down from Dallas? have extra room? when are you arriving/leaving?
  • (Dallas) I'll be riding my motorcycle down friday afternoon and leaving Sunday, let me know if anyone else wants to ride down together - quadmod(at)fichialos(dot)org
  • (Austin) extra bedroom/bathroom in downtown apt - crothers ~ gmail
  • (Austin) extra bedroom @ my place, ~4 mi north of downtown (bus/bike-easy) - fool (barcamp at w.tf)

Official Tag

Use this for things like flickr, youtube, etc.:

barcamptexas2006

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