BarCampDallas4, a continuation on the great history of the first BarCamp held in Texas.

2 items left @ Improving Enterprises on SAT - contact Cone to claim them.

see twitter.com/barcampdallas for day-of-event details
see photos: http://flickr.com/search/show/?q=barcampdallas4

Presentations (running 65 minutes :-) behind schedule)

10:00a	scheduled start time
10:30	attendees arriving, networking
11:00	Raymond Lewallen speaking on Scrum, Agile Development
11:30	Chris Gay speaking on entrepreneurship, building capital
12:00	Chris Gay continues
12:30p
1:00	lunchbreak
1:30
2:00	back from lunch
now	xbox with Halo 3 in classroom D -- Thanks to Chris K!
2:30	classroom E cks Amazon EC2
3:00	classroom C Daniel Miller - The HopeShow
3:30	classroom C Jay Fichialos - Simple Math + Being Human
4:00	classroom C Kirk Ballou, Adobe - Rich Mobile Apps
4:30	classroom C Co-working, group from BCS Bryan/College Station
5:00	Tyler Fields
5:30	Keith Hanson - What's cool about Ruby?
6:00	Ken Hanson - CSS Burner
6:30	open
7:00	open
7:30	open
8:00p	another great BarCampDallas wraps up!

What

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.

HitchhikersGuideToBarCampDallas

When

Based on holding a local barcamp twice a year, BarCampDallas4 is Saturday, September 29, 2007.

Channels

follow twitter.com/barcampdallas

Where

This barcamp will be held in the DFW area.

Venue confirmed! Improving Enterprises offices Pass the word.

15950 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX 75248, USA map

Event Details

Date	September 29, 2007
Time	10:00am to 8:00pm
Location	Improving Enterprises offices for help or directions on SAT: 972-200-0028 x0
Cost	Always free! Sign up below.
Format	Presentations, development projects, demos and interesting stuff

Security & Parking

Sign in with the lobby guard in Building #2 (on your right as you enter). The IE offices are on the 5th floor, Suite 500.

Visitor parking available in front of building. Also spaces available in parking garage. Contact Caleb or Todd or Cone for passcode.

calebjenkins at improvingenterprises dot com
todd at improvingenterprises dot com
conejohnson at gmail

Facilitators

Folks are needed to help the day of the event. Even if it's your first barcamp, you can join in.

Interested in Attending

• Tyler Fields of Momo, Inc.
• ConeJohnson conejohnson at gmail (focus: students, education)
• giovannigallucci | TheAgencyBlog, DexterityMedia, xTrain.com, Yellow7
• Kinan Sweidan
• Daniel Miller danielsjourney (focus: art, technology)
• Lincoln Murphy lincoln at lincolnmurphy.com
• Curtis Garrison Curtis at DreamCars.com [http://www.DreamCars.com]
• Jay Fichialos | Travel Studios (focus: emergence, community)
• john keese :: johnboy8 at gmail :: focus = being young but looking old
• Chris Koenig | Microsoft - planning to talk about Silverlight, Popfly and Photosynth
• Eric Lorentz (interests: networking, social media) + Wants a shirt, missed the twitter message, small if offer is open still
• SusanKirkpatrick video blogger
• ChristopherStJohn
• Kevin
• Alexander Muse
• Taylor Cowan of Travel Studios microformats for travel, Jena+pellet+hAtom = Trip wishlists
• Jason Johnson of Period Three and Unmatched Style (focus: software development, acquisitions)
• Kristie Harrington || Abstract Device
• Blaine Iler | BravoLog - Aviation social networking and record-keeping utility.
• The Creative Space Team (Bryan, TX)
• Cody Marx Bailey
• Bill Erickson
• Ryan Plesko
• Ben Burkert
• Brian Smith
• Trent Nix | Blog Professional Blog - software process, software development technologies, free stuff
• Ken Hanson CSS Burner.
• Raymond Lewallen will be in Dallas all day Friday, and would like to be able to attend if its possible. I would like to talk about anything that helps produce better software (read as Alt.Net). Hope to be able to stay in town and make it.

Proposed Topics

Exploring the Personal MBA (saw request for this at barcampHouston2)

Discussion or presentation on Adobe apps: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Flex3, ColdFusion8 download

And discuss from Microsoft: Silverlight download, Expression Web download, Photosynth labs.live.com

Can tags (user-generated taxonomies) replace a pre-defined taxonomy? (SIGCHI from CHI-WEB discussion, Hal Shubin)... (one) can use tags to do some searching, but it's a very simple search... (and) what about an advanced search with tags? Maybe multiple-term clouds.

Perhaps one day of the BCD4 (BarCampDallas4) could be devoted to a Design Crawl and Walking Camp like this one in SF: http://orange-sf.pbwiki.com/

The Creative Space Team will be launching a new product called "A blank site". Come check it out.

CSSBurner's Web Standards Toolkit

• Starting and planning front-end development
• Our Best Practices
• Stylesheet organization and resets we use
• 3 Popular techniques we use time and time again
• Solid, standards based Rounded Corner techniques
• Sticky Footers Walkthrough and QA
• SEO safe Image Replacements
• Debugging methods

By: Josh Kappers and Ken Hanson

Ruby Lovin'

• Why Ruby is Fun
• A bit about Ruby on Rails, Merb, and Datamapper
• The Future of Ruby (JRuby, Ruby.NET, and Rubinius

By: Keith Hanson

News & Blog Mentions

• Barcamp Dallas IV ~ 9/19/07 on Texas Startup Blog
• Dallas Based Development + BarCamp 4 ~ 9/30/07 on UnholyKnight.com Blog

Other information

If you're coming from out of town, you should know this is scheduled as a one-day BarCamp. It may run late into Saturday night. You might try CouchSurfing if you need a place to stay.

Or contact one of your fellow local BarCampers for a place to rest your big brain full of new BarCamp-acquired knowledge!

List of To-Do's

set tags: technorati, flickr, delicious, magnolia
create social communication outlets: twitter , facebook, pownce
post on calendars: upcoming.org , bakerbotts