Hey Everyone,
BARcamp Chicago 2008 is coming up in a week and a half! The weekend of Aug 15th at 1240 W. Harrison St (UIC area). Wow, time flies.
Its being held at the Innovation Center at UIC which is this cool new space for tech commercialization projects. I posted a couple of snapshots on the wiki:
http://barcampchicago.com/WherePage
Sean Johnson is working on the Food and I know its going to be impossible, but we'd like to try and estimate the amount. Can people either reply to me or add their name to the wiki?
http://barcampchicago.com/AttendeeList -or- barcamp-subscribe@corp.hostedlabs.com
One of the really cool events happening at BARcamp this year is an Erlang workshop being given by Martin Logan and Erlang User group team. If you dont know about Erlang, its a very cool Functional language thats good for distributed computing. Martin and others at Orbitz are putting some Erlang code into production and they have an open source project that they are putting out I believe.
As with every year, we have lots of cool talks lined up and I expect a lot more to develop over the weekend. The Chicago LUG is donating a keg, like the previous years and the organizers have been working like crazy. Its coming together despite my being a disorganized slacker ;-)
CALL FOR HELP:
1) RSVP in some form or fashion, (call me, email, join the list, add to wiki). Need to size catering.
2) Get your company to participate, sposnor, bring schwag, give a talk about technology you are using or building.
3) Give a talk.
4) Spread the word.
Also note:
Social Dev Camp is coming up this weekend, at IIT. Check it out: http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialDevCampChicago
Thats it for now. Looking forward to seeing you all next weekend!
-jason jason@hostedlabs.com 847.208.1000