We're pleased to announce that we've finalized the date and venue for
MinneBar, Minneapolis-St. Paul's BarCamp.

MinneBar will be held on Saturday, April 21s starting at 9:00am in
Lowertown, St. Paul's "warehouse district."   RSVP at http://barcamp.org/MinneBar

We've secured two floors of a vacant early twentieth century warehouse
converted to office space.  It's got a great vibe -- brickwork,
hardwood timbers, great windows and a giant skylight -- and space for
many sessions.  Speaking of which:

*Call For Participation*

Last year's MinneBar had 24 sessions, whose topics included Ruby on
Rails, Agile Design, Microformats, CSS, citizen journalism, Ajax and
the the Future of Art and the Internet .  This year, our space can
accommodate more sessions and more people, so don't be shy.

Have a topic you want to present/discuss?  There's no presentations
board, nor any pay to present silliness.  Just pop over to
http://barcamp.org/MinneBar and add it to the list.

*Goodies*

We're still working out the logistics, but come expecting a free
breakfast, lunch, afternoon appetizers, evening drinks and a MinneBar
t-shirt.  We'll send details on these in future emails as we nail down
the specifics.  All of this, of course, is made possible by our
sponsors:

Dow Jones Online - http://dowjonesonline.com/
SplitRock Venture Capital - http://splitrock.com
Electronic Pulp - http://electricpulp.com/
IconNicholson - http://iconnicholson.com/

ipHouse, http://iphouse.net, our "Connectivity Sponsor" will provide
and support free WiFi for the event.

Kinetic Data, http://kineticdata.com/, our "Venue Sponsor" landed us
this great space.

*RSVP*

Please RSVP by adding yourself to the wiki at:

http://barcamp.org/MinneBar

This is a community event; please help by spreading the word.

Thanks,

Ben Edwards, Dan Grigsby and Luke Francl