BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

 

 

Event details

 

When: Saturday, March 1st, 2008 (Note - change in date from earlier announcement)

• Do we want a Friday night reception? Yes: 2 No: 1
• Do we want a Sunday Session? Yes: 1 No: 2 (No Sunday Sessions)

 

 

Where: Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, Kelly Engineering center

• What rooms at Kelly do we get? The classrooms on the west end? (Yes, plus all the little conference rooms scattered throughout the building, so we have a lot of space for discussion).

 

 

Where to stay? http://www.visitcorvallis.com/lodging/index.html Can we get a sponsor for this?

 

Registration page is now available. (Thanks Auckland for the template)

 

Sponsors

 

• Software Association of Oregon Corvallis Chapter
• MyStrands
• Jive Software
• Sanda Communications
• Woodstocks Pizza 
• OSU College of Engineering
• InsightsNow! 
• MicroSoft 
• Mozilla 

 

Want to be added to this list? You can volunteer from our registration page

 

Budget

 

• Incoming donations (cash, in-kind)
  • SAO - $500
  • MyStrands - $300
  • Jive Software - $250
  • OSU COE - $300
  • InsightsNow! - $300
  • MicroSoft  - $300
  • Mozilla  - $300

 

• Outgoing expenses
  • Assume 200 people? Or can we get up to 300?
  • Building Rental + cleanup : $600
  • Wireless: (Can use existing osupub, its free)
  • Friday snacks:
  • Sat Breakfast: $5/person - $1000 (rough guesses , depends on number of people)
  • Sat Lunch: $8/person - $1600
  • Sat Dinner: $8/person - $1600
  • Sunday Brunch: $5/person - $1000 (No event on Sunday)
  • Drinks: $3/person - $600 (NOTE: OSU has a No Alcohol policy)

 

• T-shirts $7 each?

 

 

 

 

Schedule

 

Day 1

 

• Morning

 

Sessions

 

• Lunch

 

Eat

 

• Afternoon

 

Sessions

 

• Dinner

 

Eat

 

• Evening/Party

 

I'm thinking of possibly adding an "Ignite" style event - speakers with timed ppt presentations.

 

 

Proposed Sessions

 

• add your topic...

 

 

Planned/offered sessions (slide shows, talks, presentations, and discussions):

 

• Programming from an off grid Mud Hut - Shannon Dealy
• Hands on set up your own OpenID - Colleen Dick

 

• add your topic...

 

 

Topics I would like to hear about**

 

• Amazon EC2 + S3 + SimpleDB
• Hobby Rockets + computer Control
• Kinetic Sculptures
• JavaScript
  • DojoToolkit
  • JQuery
  • Google Widget Toolkit
  • Yahoo UI Library
• Starting a Tech Businesses
  • Angel Funding
  • lendingclub as a way to start a business
• Social Networking online
  • Linkedin/Facebook
• Ruby
• OSU OSL Tour
• Animation
• Game development
• Scrum Development
• Drupal Development & Examples
• Intranet samples and platforms/frameworks
• repurposing embedded computers.

 

• add a topic...

 

• Oracle Database : Performance tuning
• Myspace/Networking sites: Using Web Services, what services are available etc
• Jobs: Whos hiring in Corvallis, what are they looking for
• Jobs: How to update one's skills/switch skills for the local companies
• Javascript: ASP.NET AJAX
• Visual Studio 2008: Linq and Silverlight
• Javascript: Performance tuning
• Test Driven Development
• OpenID

 

 

 

 

 

Planners

 

*Timothy A. Budd

*John Sechrest

 

Planning meetings

• 1/31 5:00pm McMinnemans on Monroe

 

 

Volunteers

 

• Bill Ford
• Mike Gallagher

 

 

Participants (aka Campers)

 

Please use our new registration page as well, so we can get an accurate count.

 

• Justin Gallardo
• Lee LaTour
• Gary Prothero
• Scott Kveton
• Bart Massey
• Bill Ford
• Thom Lesser - Open Source Intelligence
• Ward Cunningham
• Jason McKerr
• Portland State Aerospace Society members
  • Andrew Greenberg
• Brandon Philips
• Colleen Dick
• Mark Frischmuth
• Patrick Richard
• Hal Pomeranz
• Shannon Dealy
• Ernesto Borrego
• DawnFoster
• Frank Hall
• Joe Crowe
• Michael Gallagher
• Ben Kero
• Brian Weldon
• Brian Claytor
• Rob Hudson (with partial certainty)
• Mike Cherba
• Larry Price
• Robert Williams
• Jason Prothero
• Kirsten Petersen (maybe)

 

 

Set up a Upcoming Event  for this.

 

Eugene Carpoolers?

(anybody interested in RideShare up from Eugene?)

 

• Hal Pomeranz
• Rob Hudson (if I am able to go)

 

Task List

(please cross out when it's done)

 

Tech

 

• Wifi (taken care of, support will provide a guest login to osupub)
• Projector, White Boards (each classroom, conference room already has these)
• Photo http://rwtechservices.com/BeavBarCampImages/ login as "beaver:beaver", or register as yourself.
• Video
• Audio
• Streaming or Stickam or Skype
• Tag photos, blogs, etc as BeaverBarCamp

 

 

Marketing

 

PortlandBarCamp Flickr Photos

 

• Contact GT
• Press Release
• Contact SAO membership
• Contact OSU LUG
• Contact PLUG
• Contact EUGLUG
• Contact SalemLug
• Contact ProITForum
• Contact Pdx-pm-list
• Contact OSUOSL-
• Contact UofO CS
• Contact OSU CS
• Contact Willamette CS
• Contact PDX CS
• Contact Portland Barcamp group
• Set up Upcoming notice
• Contact BEC
• Contact PDX Ruby Group
• Contact PDX Drupal Group
• Contact Portland Rocketeers group

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Non-tech

 

Breakfast

Lunch

Coffee/Tea

Tables and chairs

 

Resources

 

MapOfKellyEngineering

 

 

 

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