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TriConf

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TriConf: Barcamp Tri-Cities | July 22-24

Sponsored by:
  

We'll be hosted by the beautiful Richland Public Library [map] and the event is sponsored by Richland Public Library, &yet, <!doctype society>, and nGenuity.

What's Barcamp?

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. The focus of this event will be technology, creative work, and entrepreneurship. Please create an account and add yourself to lists below!

Schedule

Setup starts about noon-ish on Friday. Earlybird meetup and hang-out beginning at 4:00

Friday

  • 12:00    Setup
  • 4:00    Registration / earlybird hangout
  • 6:00    Intro / The Grid
  • 7:00    Community (Shenoa / Adam)
  • 7:30    Carl Cadwell
  • 8:00 End of Friday

Saturday morning

  • 8:00    Setup + registration
  • 9:00    Intro + Bruce S. talk on giving a talk
  • 9:30    Shuffling / choose talks to attend
  • 10:00    Multi-session 1
  • 10:30    Multi-session 2
  • 11:00    Multi-session 3
  • 11:30 Break for Lunch

Saturday afternoon

  • 2:00    Multi-session 4
  • 2:30    Multi-session 5
  • 3:00    Multi-session 6
  • 3:30    Multi-session 7
  • 4:00    Break for Dinner

Saturday evening

  • 6:00    Main Session intro
  • 6:10    Matt McGee
  • 6:40    Ken Arneson
  • 7:10    Sara Nelson
  • 7:40    Head to nGenuity Event at Jackson's Sports Bar & Grill on GW Way

Sunday morning

  • 9:00    Setup + registration
  • 9:30    Multi-session 8
  • 10:00    Multi-session 9
  • 10:30    Multi-session 10
  • 11:00    Multi-session 11
  • 11:30 Concluding session
  • 12:00 End of conference 

Proposed Sessions

The goal of listing proposed sessions is to generate as many potential talks, discussions, and demos that people can share their passion.

If you could lead sessions, please indicate proposed topics you'd be willing to lead below—none of what's below are guaranteed sessions. Feel free to nominate people, but indicate you're doing so. If you accept a nomination, just remove the "nominated". Attendees are encouraged to present in any medium or method they find useful.

Technology

Design/Communication

  • Wireframing (Kristin De La Rosa)
  • SEO Success Pyramid: It's More Than You Think (Matt McGee)  
  • Why Your Company Needs to Blog (and How To Look Good Doing It) (Matt McGee)  
  • Local/Small Businesses & Social Media (Matt McGee)  
  • Jerry Maguire's Guide to Social Media (Matt McGee)  
  • Interface Design (Doug Waltman)
  • Getting started with Wordpress (Doug Waltman)
  • Typography for Programmers (Erik Ralston)
  • A Glossary of Usability (Erik Ralston)
  • Designer/Developer Collaboration (Aaron McCall / James Menera)
  • Web Design for Print Designers (Amy Lynn Taylor)
  • Design Process Discussion (Amy Lynn Taylor) 
  • Why Twitter is such a big deal and why you should use it -  (Henrik Joreteg) 
  • Understanding the Exposure Triangle, and other photography basics (Andy Robbins) 
  • Being Awesome. (Seth Burnett | did this @ doctype, can bring back for this, if wanted)

Entrepreneurship

  • Getting Your Market Right (Carl Cadwell)
  • Saturday evening talk (Sara Nelson) 
  • Freelance Fundamentals (Adam Brault)
  • Why You Should Make Products (Adam Brault + Henrik Joreteg)
  • Networking 101 Discussion (Adam Baldwin + Adam Brault)
  • Doing a Startup (Matt Dawes nominated) 
  • 10-20-30 Rule for Presentations (Bruce Schmoetzer Fri/Sat)
  • Patent Trolls -- Recent Developments (Bruce Schmoetzer Fri/Sat)

Requested topics

  • Using vim
  • Arduino hacking  
  • CoffeeScript 
  • Business basics
  • Web development process
  • Usability basics (Doug Waltman)
  • Security
    • WebAPP Pen Testing (Adam Baldwin) 
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Mastering Content Management Systems (Drupal, Joomla, etc)
  • Django 
  • Women in Technology/Business/Design
  • Unit Testing in JavaScript, Python, etc
  • Project Management Basic
  • Sharing Code and/or Starting Projects on GitHub, SourceForge, Google Code, etc 
  • Operations task automation using fabric, etc
  • You Don't Know What You Don't Know - Panel Discussion with current entrepreneurs
  • Sometimes the Customer IS Wrong -- Knowing When to Walk Away
  • Get It In Writing - Why Contracts Matter
  • Pair Programming, other development techniques
  • Responsive Web Design/Dev | talk and discussion (? Seth Burnett)

Participants (aka Campers)

 

Tags for Twitter, Flickr, and bookmarking services

@tri_conf is the official Twitter account. #triconf is the official #hashtag.

 

 

 

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