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.
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Event Information: We will be posting updates via our twitter account @beaverbarcamp, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event! Connect on live chat via IRC - irc.freenode.net, #BeaverBarCamp (click here if you don't have an IRC client)
Event details
When: April 3rd - April 4th, 2009 That is Friday Night and Saturday
Friday 4/3 - 6:00pm - 11:00pm (Ignite Corvallis will most likely be the main event for this day)
Saturday 4/4 - 10:00am - 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
- add your name / contact info here
Have space for someone to stay
- add your name / contact info here
Sponsors
add your company here
Want to be added to this list? You can volunteer from our registration page
Budget
- Incoming donations (cash, in-kind)
- Outgoing expenses (this needs updated as of 1/2009)
- 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
Ignite Corvallis and maybe planning
Saturday 9:00am - 11:00pm
There is no online schedule yet
Sessions and Events
Session notes got put on a different wiki:
http://sites.google.com/a/beaverbarcamp.com/www-beaverbarcamp-com/Session-Notes
Note: this may be moved for the next BarCamp
Ignite Corvallis
We're planning on having Ignite Corvallis on Friday evening. Venue is still up in the air but the backup plan is somewhere on campus or even in KEC.
Proposed Sessions
Planned/offered sessions (slide shows, talks, presentations, and discussions):
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
Planning meetings
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
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RSVP
Carpoolers
Up from Eugene
Down from Portland
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 ITProForum
- 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
Who's blogging?
Archived discussion
- Do we want a Friday night reception?
- Do we want Friday night working meeting to plan the Saturday program?
- Do we want a Sunday Session?