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.
Please use our new registration page as well as adding your name below, so we can get an accurate count.
Event Information: We will be posting the schedule and other event day into on the Beaver Bar Camp Google Site, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event!
Event details
When: April 3rd - April 4th, 2009 That is Friday Night and Saturday
Friday 4/3 - 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Saturday 4/4 - 9:00am - 11:00pm
Tag photos, blogs, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, etc. as BeaverBarCamp
Where: Kelley Engineering Center (map) at Oregon State University; 2500 Monroe, Corvallis, OR (brochure with a floor plan)
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?
Looking for someone to stay with
- John Abbe (Friday night only) - got space, thanks!
- add your name / contact info here
Have space for someone to stay
- Ben Kero Friday+Saturday - Got a free couch, and plenty of floor space.
- Toby Friday+Saturday - Open futon, and plenty of floor space.
- add your name / contact info here
Sponsors
Want to be added to this list? You can volunteer from our registration page
Budget
- Incoming donations (cash, in-kind)
- Outgoing expenses
- Assume 200 people? Or can we get up to 300? (We had about 120)
- Building Rental + cleanup : $600
Wireless: (Can use existing osupub, its free)- Friday reception snacks: - $450
- Sat Breakfast: $5/person - $??
- Sat Lunch: $8/person - $??
- Sat Dinner: $8/person - $450
- Drinks: $3/person - $200 (NOTE: OSU has a No Alcohol policy)
Schedule
Friday 6:30pm - 11:00pm
Working meeting to plan Saturday...
Saturday 9:00am - 11:00pm
There is no online schedule, although the skeleton for one is at
http://sites.google.com/a/beaverbarcamp.com/www-beaverbarcamp-com/Home/Schedule
Sessions and Events
Session notes got put on a different wiki:
http://sites.google.com/a/beaverbarcamp.com/www-beaverbarcamp-com/Session-Notes
"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
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
- Wagn demo - John Abbe (Sat am)
- Community Building roundtable discussion (Sat early-mid-day) - DawnFoster
- OSU OSL Tour (Sat AM, early PM) - Lance Albertson
- So... you have a business idea... Now What? - Frank Hall, Robert Best
- The Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki's great book and presentation) - Frank Hall
- Is Google a God? (see thechurchofgoogle.com) - fanatic discussion
- Getting started in e-tailing - Frank Hall
- All things Pythonic: recursive generator generators - K Lars Lohn
Topics I would like to hear about (backlog)
- Doing funky stuff with Linux routers
- Amazon EC2 + S3 + SimpleDB (seconded!)
- JungleDisk storage that uses Amazon S3
- 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
- Free tools to help startup businesses (Google Apps, GrandCentral, etc)
- Social Networking online
- Ruby
- SEO
- Ruby on Rails for making dynamic websites
- 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)
- growing a material-world living-in-the-same-place community
- how learn to build (buildings) -- including alternative building methods & materials
- naturalistic spirituality -- "How can fun, inspiring, transcendental, sacred ways of living, thinking, and being, exist in a purely naturalistic, scientific framework?"
- Best tools for team collaboration?
- 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
- Business models based on FREE (Free-based business)
- Performing music live with computers
Planners
*Timothy A. Budd
*John Sechrest
Planning meetings
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
Please use our new registration page as well, so we can get an accurate count.
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
- Notes and Minutes: How are we going to jointly edit, share and coordinate notes?
- IRC - Is there an IRC channel we should use? #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)
Who's blogging?
Archived discussion
- Do we want a Friday night reception? Yes: 3 No: 1 We are doing Friday, planning for Saturday
- 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)
