Hi Everyone! BARcamp is this weekend (Sat-Sun, 23-24 June) and I am super excited! Everyone has really come together for this. We have a lot of great talks and ideas floating around and everyone seems to be pitching in something to help. The last organizer meet-up is tonight at Goose Island(clyborn) @ 7:00. There are also a couple other events this week worth checking out that I want to mention. Beer and ideas to get primed for BARcamp ;-) - Kristen Nicole's Web Ascent is happening Wed the 20th. http://www.webascentevents.com/ - MIT-EF has this cool Whiteboard competition happening Tue the 19th. http://www.mitefchicago.org/dojo/18/v.jsp?p=/BelowtheRadar Uuhh.. thats all I can remember. Its going to be a fun week in the Chicago tech world.. So back to BARcamp. Some of the stuff that is going to be happening this weekend is: - Dave Williams talk on building cross platform widgets with wxWidgets - FRDCSA A.I. talk on learning coding libraries through operator learning and representation - Linux install fest and lightening talks on a few special purpose distros - Tristan Sloughter teaches us how to Brew Beer at Home! - Kirix talks about their Human UI for browsing web data - MobileWeb 2.0 hackathon, building apps for mobile devices. - Perry spins the trax, live webcast for the kids at home - Humanized talks about Enso - ChicagoBeta-BARcamp Job Board - exploration, the joy of learning things and lots of liquor Some last shout-outs for help: - video peoples, help capture talks and goings on. - please bring power strips, Cat5 cables, extension cords, pillows to sit on - bring an idea for a code sprint Thats it. Looking forward to seeing you all there! -jason jason@hostedlabs.com 847.208.1000 event details: http://barcampchicago.com/