Champaign-Urbana's BarCamp
Event details
Website
http://cubarcamp.info
When
Saturday April 25, 2009 @ 2pm
Where
Collective Turf Coworking
110 W. Main St, Urbana, IL 61801
(opposite Crane Alley and between Heartland Gallery & Priceless Books)
Mailing list
Google Group:
Please join if you want to volunteer, participate, present or demo anything:
http://groups.google.com/group/cubarcamp
Sponsors
Host: Collective Turf Coworking (Venue and drinks/refreshments)
Schedule
Coming soon!
Proposed Sessions
- [Susan Potter] Willing to present any of the following topics (please let me know what appeals):
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- RESTful Web Services & Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques
- Ruby on Rails Quick Start
- Unobtrusive Javascript
- CouchDB
- Developing Twitter web applications in Ruby (can also discuss OAuth protocol?)
- Rspec/BDD (conceptually or coding)
Domain Specific Languages (mostly in Ruby and JavaScript too) from concept to creating your own DSL for your purposes and then applying them to your domain Perhaps this is too geeky? Please provide feedback!
Erlang - Pure functional programming. Perhaps this is too geeky? Please provide feedback!
- [Dan Blah] Willing to present on any of the following topics:
- Drupal
- Overview of Drupal, a powerful open source content management platform.
- The importance of social networking... integration and marketing
- [Sam] Willing to present on any of the following topics:
- Information management, and working environments: emacs org-mode and Awesome Window Manager
- [Brian Marick]
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Topics I would like to hear about
- Pair Programming - by Brian Marick? (suggested by Susan Potter)
- The Culture of Open Source Collaboration or Photoshop or Flash? - by Devon Fitzgerald? (suggested by Susan Potter)
Planners
- Susan Potter
- Brian Marick
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
Task List
(please -cross out- when it's done)
Tech
Wifi (provided by Collective Turf Coworking)
Projector (provided by OJC Technologies) Actually the projector is not necessary as Collective Turf Coworking will provide HD LCD monitor with DVI, VGA and of course HDMI inputs.
White Boards (provided by Collective Turf Coworking)
Photo (Collective Turf Coworking can provide camera, but participants are encouraged to bring their own)
I will bring my DSLR and tripod. Looking forward to getting some event shots.-J-ames Ryan Hamilton
Video (Collective Turf Coworking can provide two digital camcorders)
Audio (At present good audio equipment is lacking)
What are the required/expected photo/video/audio needs -- Dan Blah
I just got a Creative Vado HD for fun vids. I also have an older DV camcorder and digital camera...but people should feel free to bring their digital cameras. If anyone has an external microphone let me know.
Non-tech
Coffee/Tea
Tables and chairs (provided by Collective Turf Coworking)
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