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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.
It's time to gather, listen, teach, and learn about technology companies and the technology research happening in Blacksburg, the New River Valley, and Roanoke. Please join us in making this event interactive, knowledgeable, and most of all, fun!
Please add your name and what you would like to hear... if you can lead a discussion group, even better!
If you've never heard of a BarCamp, this is what one of the bigger events looks like (video): BarCampAustinII Video
Event Details
Date: June 14th, 2008
Location:
Mailtrust Offices
755 University City Boulevard
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Directions via Google.
The room that we will be in is on the first floor and is about 1000 feet away from the main Mailtrust offices, towards the Kroger supermarket. If you are facing the Mailtrust logo, turn right and walk down about 1000 feet. There will be signs.
Schedule
| Time | Activity
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| 10:00am | Introduction to BarCamp
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| 10:15am | BarCamp starts - board editing, figure out schedule
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| 10:30am - 12:30pm | BarCamp Sessions
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch and general discussion
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| 2:00pm ~ 4:00pm | BarCamp Sessions
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| 4:00pm | BarCamp closing remarks and planning the next BarCamp
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Sponsors
(Sponsors are local companies and organizations that can help organize the event, no cash contribution is required.)
Organizers
- Manu Sporny msporny@digitalbazaar.com
- Dave Longley
- Mike Johnson
- David I. Lehn (email)
- Jonathan Turner
- Josh Eckstein
- Matt Pfeil
- **Add your name if you'd like to help, we need help finding a location with a good network connection and people to video tape sessions!**
Participants (aka Campers)
- Josh Eckstein
- Kelly Poon
- Aras 'Russ' Memisyazici
- Joseph K. Goodman
- Ahson Wardak ahsonwardak AT gmail dot com
- Aleksandr Khasymski
- Khaled Hussein
- Nick Morgan
- Nathan Hancock
- A.J. Coppa
- Nick VonHollen
- Brian Waldon
- Nguyen Mai
- John Edstrom
- Tim Tutt
- Gabriel Martinez
- Andy Fabian join('afabian', ord(64), 'vt.edu')
- John Williams
- Phil Pelanne
- William Wolf
- Brian Lamar
- Michael Rihani michael $AT/ koofers dot*com
- Steven White and you guys can twit some: possum4all
- Manas Tungare (email)
- Connor Prussin ( CPrussin <at> vt <d0t> edu )
- Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones (email)
- Shyam Sunder Santoshi Visamsetty ( vsss <at> vt <d0t> edu )
- Keith Bennett (kbennett _at_ bbsinc _dot_ biz)
- Robert Beheiter (rbeheiter :at: gmail :dot: com)
- Naren (nano.naren $at$ gmail dot com
- Nancy Brauer nancy$AT/ bluesky D*T org
- **add yourself...** please list a SPAM-blocked e-mail address such as myname $AT/ domain D*T com so that we can e-mail you any last minute changes/calls for help.
Presentation Ideas
Verified Sessions
- Introduction to BarCamp (Manu Sporny)
- Multicore Environment Programming (Jonathan Turner)
- Blacksburg Technology Wiki (Cory Donovan, Manu Sporny)
- Exchange vs. Zimbra/Funambol (Joseph K. Goodman)
- Cloud Computing - What it is, what types there are, and when to use it (Matt Pfeil)
- Ninja Audio Effects (Andy Fabian)
- Ruby on Rails (Josh Eckstein)
- Hacking Parallel Filesystems (Manu Sporny)
Proposed Sessions
Topics I would like to hear about
- Running technology companies in Blacksburg
- Rails deployments
- memcached
- Practical uses of microformats
- OpenID
- Mobilizing web applications
- Experiences/tips/tutorials on using Amazon Web Services EC2 / S3
- Spring Framework & it's applications
- True Single-Sign-On in mixed OS environments
- Programming in modern OOP
- Programming Enhancements?
- Using AspectJ
- Grid-based webpage layout
- Cloud Computing
- **add a topic you would like to hear about...**
Bloggers
- **Add your name if you can blog about sessions that you attend...**
Video
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati, etc.
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