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BeaverBarCamp

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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: 3 No: 1
  • Do we want Friday night working meeting to plan the Saturday program? Yes: 2 No: 0
  • 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

 

 

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

 

Budget

 

 

  • Outgoing expenses
    • Assume 200 people? Or can we get up to 300? (Probably <100 -- that's still great for Bbarcamp#1)
    • Building Rental + cleanup : $600
    • Wireless: (Can use existing osupub, its free)
    • Friday reception snacks: $5/person - $150
    • Sat Breakfast: $5/person - $500 (rough guesses , depends on number of people)
    • Sat Lunch: $8/person - $800
    • Sat Dinner: $8/person - $800
    • Sunday Brunch: $5/person - $1000 (No event on Sunday)
    • Drinks: $3/person - $600 (NOTE: OSU has a No Alcohol policy)

 

    • T-shirts $7 each? (would attendees be willing to pay for these?)

 

 

Schedule

Friday

6:30pm - 11:00pm

 

 

Saturday**

9:00am - 11:00pm

 

  • Morning

 

Sessions

 

  • Lunch

 

Eat

 

  • Afternoon

 

Sessions

 

  • Dinner

 

Eat

 

  • Evening/Party

 

Sessions and Events

 

"Ignite" style event

 

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

 

I like it!

 

What is Ignite?

 

Portland's apparently rocked!

 

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
    • IntroToLinq (presentation, demo, q&a) - Sat. AM and/or late PM - RoryPlaire
    • CorvallisDotNetUserGroup - Sat. AM and/or late PM - RoryPlaire
    • How to create an Investor Pitch - Sat. - Steve Morris
    • (or -- "Finding the Money" - an overview of angel/vc fund raising) Steve Morris
    • The Six Hour Startup - Robert Eickmann
    • Seattle Saturday House - Or collective intelligence on tap - Or building a geek house -Robert Eickmann
    • Supporting non-profits with Google virtual office (Google Apps) - Robert Williams

 

    • add your topic...

 

 

Topics I would like to hear about (backlog)

 

      • Amazon EC2 + S3 + SimpleDB
      • Hobby Rockets + computer Control
      • Kinetic Sculptures
      • JavaScript
        • DojoToolkit
        • JQuery - Dave Merwin (Designer's Perspective)
        • 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
      • Ruby on Rails for making dynamic websites
      • OSU OSL Tour
      • Animation
      • Game development
      • Scrum Development
      • repurposing embedded computers.
      • How wiki technology was invented
      • Django - Dave Merwin (Designer's Perspective)
      • BluePrint CSS - Dave Merwin (Designer's Perspective)

 

      • 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

 

 

Volunteers

 

  • Bill Ford
  • Mike Gallagher

 

 

Participants (aka Campers)

 

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

 

 

 

Set up a Upcoming Event  for this.

 

Eugene Carpoolers?

(anybody interested in RideShare up from Eugene?)

 

 

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/ register 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
  • Post to Wazzuplocal

 

 

 

Non-tech

 

Breakfast

Lunch

Coffee/Tea (See the SignUpSheet)

Tables and chairs (See the SignUpSheet)

 

Resources

 

MapOfKellyEngineering (here's a brochure with a floor plan)

 

 

 

Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.

Please use the tag {BeaverBarCamp} for content related to this event

 

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