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.

Please use our new registration page as well as adding your name below, so we can get an accurate count.

Event Information: We will be posting the schedule and other event day into on the Beaver Bar Camp Google Site, and don't forget to join the Google group to get important notifications about the event!

Event details

When: Friday Night and Saturday, March 1st, 2008 (Note - change in date from earlier announcement)

Friday 2/29 - 6:30pm - 11:00pm
Saturday 3/1 - 9:00am - 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

  • John Abbe (Friday night only) - got space, thanks!
  • add your name / contact info here

Have space for someone to stay

  • Ben Kero Friday+Saturday - Got a free couch, and plenty of floor space.
  • Toby Friday+Saturday - Open futon, and plenty of floor space.
  • add your name / contact info here

Sponsors

Want to be added to this list? You can volunteer from our registration page

Budget

  • Outgoing expenses
    • 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)
    • T-shirts $6 each - $600

Schedule

Friday 6:30pm - 11:00pm

Working meeting to plan Saturday...

Saturday 9:00am - 11:00pm

There is no online schedule, although the skeleton for one is at
http://sites.google.com/a/beaverbarcamp.com/www-beaverbarcamp-com/Home/Schedule

Sessions and Events

Session notes got put on a different wiki:
http://sites.google.com/a/beaverbarcamp.com/www-beaverbarcamp-com/Session-Notes

"Ignite" style event

I'm thinking of possibly adding an "Ignite" style event - speakers with timed ppt presentations.

I like it!

What is Ignite?

Portland's apparently rocked!

Proposed Sessions

      • add your topic...

Planned/offered sessions (slide shows, talks, presentations, and discussions):

    • Programming from an off grid Mud Hut - Shannon Dealy
    • Hands on set up your own OpenID - Colleen Dick
    • IntroToLinq (presentation, demo, q&a) - Sat. AM and/or late PM - RoryPlaire
    • CorvallisDotNetUserGroup - Sat. AM and/or late PM - RoryPlaire
    • How to create an Investor Pitch - Sat. - Steve Morris
    • (or -- "Finding the Money" - an overview of angel/vc fund raising) Steve Morris
    • The Six Hour Startup - Robert Eickmann
    • Seattle Saturday House - Or collective intelligence on tap - Or building a geek house -Robert Eickmann
    • Supporting non-profits with Google virtual office (Google Apps) - Robert Williams
    • Wagn demo - John Abbe (Sat am)
    • Community Building roundtable discussion (Sat early-mid-day) - DawnFoster
    • OSU OSL Tour (Sat AM, early PM) - Lance Albertson
    • So... you have a business idea... Now What? - Frank Hall, Robert Best
    • The Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki's great book and presentation) - Frank Hall
    • Is Google a God? (see thechurchofgoogle.com) - fanatic discussion
    • Getting started in e-tailing - Frank Hall
    • All things Pythonic: recursive generator generators - K Lars Lohn
    • add your topic...

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
        • Linkedin/Facebook
      • Ruby
      • 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?
      • add a topic...
  • 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

*Timothy A. Budd
*John Sechrest

Planning meetings

Volunteers

  • Bill Ford
  • Mike Gallagher

Participants (aka Campers)

Please use our new registration page as well, so we can get an accurate count.

Upcoming Event  set up for this.

Eugene Carpoolers?

(anybody interested in RideShare up from Eugene?)

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 ProITForum
  • 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

Breakfast
Lunch
Coffee/Tea (See the SignUpSheet)
Tables and chairs (See the SignUpSheet)

Who's blogging?

Archived discussion

  • Do we want a Friday night reception? Yes: 3 No: 1 We are doing Friday, planning for Saturday
  • Do we want Friday night working meeting to plan the Saturday program? Yes: 2 No: 0
  • Do we want a Sunday Session? Yes: 1 No: 2 (No Sunday Sessions)


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    Frank Hall:I also am looking forward to Corvallis' first BarCamp. To help keep it simple to organize, why don't we have our Friday night session be the planning session for the Saturday conference? That's how they did the Portland BarCamp, which seemed very effective. Those who showed up Saturday morning had an agenda with a choice of sessions and topics through the day, so they could plan their day and jump right in. Portland also had a DemoCamp Saturday night, which was 5 minutes per presenter to show some of their work online (all we need is an online laptop and a projector). For example, I hope the founder of www.picomonster.com (all about imaginary numbers) will demo his work, and also others who have something to show. As for finances, since it's more likely we'll do it again if we break even, I suggest dropping the "breakfast" on Saturday and just having coffee/water/juice and some bagels/pastry laid out as a morning snack; that would help the budget. Thanks again for the good work!
    Bill Ford:Looking good John. The BEC Executive Director plans on being a camper but only if in this country. I feel Japan calling sometime in mid-late February and may not return until after the camp. I will attempt to assist all I can prior to my departure on the 1st trip of the new year. I think the BEC and BEC Board of Directors will be very supportive! Looking forward to it. Thanks for your leadership.
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