Event Info

What:

The unconference BarCamp is coming to Washington, DC. It is a gathering of smart and passionate professionals who work on the World Wide Web.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/211115/

Schedule:

• Friday, August 3rd at 8pm - Opening Night Party
• Saturday, August 4th; from 9:30am to whenever - Conference Sessions

Where:

Will be announced soon

Cost:

FREE

Navigation

• BarCampWashingtonDCParticipants
• BarCampWashingtonDCSessions
• BarCampWashingtonDCSessionIdeas
• BarCampWashingtonDCSponsors
• BarCampWashingtonDCMarketing
• BarCampWashingtonDCFood
• BarCampWashingtonDCBudget
• BarCampWashingtonDCToDos

Sponsors

Overview

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

Current Sponsors

• Clearspring
• Viget Labs - Brian Williams
• Blattner Brunner - Peter Corbett
• Culture Captioning - Holly Samee

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

• JustinThorp - jthorp AT gmail DOT com - http://oatmealstout.wordpress.com
• JasonGarber - jason AT sixtwothree DOT org - http://sixtwothree.org
• Jesse Thomas - jessesaves@gmail.com | http://wwww.jess3.com
• M. Jackson Wilkinson - jackw DASH barcamp AT jounce DOT net - http://jounce.net
• Peter Corbett - corbett3000 at gmail.com - http://www.advercation.com http://www.twitter.com/corbett3000
• Justin Stockton - poorgeek AT gmail DOT com - http://siliconsoul.org
• Rodney Degracia - collaborate-barcampdc AT elitefrontier DOT com - http://elitefrontier.org

How you can help

We've had a number of people ask how they can help. Here are some ways.

Blogging

Please blog about BarCamp before, during, and after the event. Just make sure that you tag it with "barcampwashingtondc".

• http://technorati.com/tag/barcampwashingtondc

Take Photos

Take photos before, during, and after the event.

• http://flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampwashingtondc

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)