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/