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BarCampWashingtonDC

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Event Info

  • Who: A gathering of Web developers, programmers, designers, marketers, social media, and new media professionals
  • What: BarCampWashingtonDC
  • When: End of July/Early August; Late Friday & Saturday
  • Where: TBD
  • Cost: FREE

 

Sponsors

BarCamp is way more fun with appropriate amenities. We'd like to provide prizes, free food, wifi, and t-shirts. The catch is these cost money. We need some friends to help sponsor BarCamp in order to make it a success.

 

Want to sponsor BarCampWashingtonDC? Email me(jthorp AT gmail DOT com) or any of the organizers. You could also put your company name and contact information on the wiki page BarCampWashingtonDCSponsors

 

Organizers

Wanna help make BarCampWashingtonDC happen? We'd love to have your help in organizing the event. Add your name to the list and join the Google Group.

http://groups.google.com/group/barcampwashingtondc-organizers

 

Participants

Interested in attending? Please add your name, email address, and blog (if you have one) to the list...

 

We are using a Google Group to keep all participants informed of any BarCampWashingtonDC announcements.

http://groups.google.com/group/barcampwashingtondc-participants

 

Sessions

Everyone at BarCamp participates. What are you going to talk about?

  • WCAG 2.0 Will Make Your Life Easier - JustinThorp
  • Microformats as APIs - JasonGarber
  • Ruby on Rails - Bill Kocik (Anyone want something more specific? Email me)
  • Home-brew Mobile Apps with Django - Bartosz Solowiej
  • APIs as Apps: Designing User Segmented Interactions - Bartosz Solowiej (Optional talk given by show of interest)
  • Community Building in Drupal - Michael Haggerty
  • CRM Systems Integration in Drupal - Michael Haggerty
  • Using Social Media to Connect Brands and Audiences Online - Peter Corbett www.advercation.com
  • Blog design - Jesse Thomas www.jess3.com
  • Ethics and word of mouth marketing in the 2.0 world - Holly Samee
  • Design Offline: developing strategies and images away from the computer - David Ramos
  • Open Democracy -- (tentative) A review & discussion: What this means, Existing Tools & Services, What else there is to do. (I use tools like this, and used their predecessors as a journalist and then as a campaign staffer before becoming a full time web developer. I'm responding to the general request for someone to speak on this topic: Happy to work with anyone out there involved in things they consider explicitly apart of this movement/application space -- maybe we can get a panel, pipe up here and contact me.)- Matt Bradley
  • Using Firebug: Web Development Inside the Browser - Russell Heimlich http://www.russellheimlich.com/blog/
  • Cellular Automata for Hackers - David Brunton - Loosely based on http://www.davidbrunton.com/2007/05/deus-ex-automatis-exploration-of-even.html
  • Test-Driven / Behavior-Driven Development - Patrick Reagan
  • Let's not use icons everywhere - Alisa Schadt

 

Topic Ideas

What would you like to hear about?

  • Community Building and Management
  • DOM Scripting (how can I be amazing, fast?)
  • Identity 2.0 (OpenID vs. CardSpace)
  • Metrics
  • Mobile Web
    • W3C Mobile Web Best Practices
    • Mobile Content Adaptation
  • OpenID
  • Programming Geekery
    • Ruby On Rails
    • .Net
  • Second Life
  • Social Media
  • Web Accessibility
    • WCAG 2.0
  • Web Services
  • Open Democracy (using to web for congressional transparency)
  • Iconography Design/Use
  • Monetizing a site that doesn't have text content (stuff adsense wouldn't be that great for)

 

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