A few questions

[Jason Ragsdale]

We need to start pondering a few things,

Locations
   Microsoft Campus, Deep Ellum, Addison

Food
  Chipotle

T-Shirts/Stickers

Badges

Additional sponsers
  Yahoo

Chris with Microsoft has allocated some money for us but more sponsors could not hurt :)

[Chris Cornutt]

I'd vote for Addison...pretty central to both the Northerners and those in-town. I'm sure we could find something relatively cheap in the area. Though the MS campus would probably be cheapest ;)

I bet we could get Zend and maybe Oracle or someone to help out...stickers might be better than shirts, though. Shirts get pretty expensive pretty quickly.

Something to consider - at the Big (D)esign conference, for the badges they just had ones with an area where the attendee could just write in their name with a sharpie. No date information on it so they could be used forever if they wanted to.

-chris

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PHPDeveloper.org
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[Jason Ragsdale]

Chris, do you think Eli would be a good contact to start with for Zend? As for badges, yeh we could just do something as simple as "hello my name is" as this is supposed to be an un-conference .

[Tommy Falgout]

Addison would be ideal, but would probably also cost more money to
rent. I'm going to hit up a few dance buddies on where they found
cheap venues.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Chris Cornutt <eny...@phpdeveloper.org> wrote:

[Chris Koenig]

I personally don’t know anyone from Zend in Dallas, but I know a BUNCH of the .NET-oriented companies and groups.  We can also talk with Improving Enterprises.  They hosted the last Dallas BarCamp and would, I’m sure, be interested in helping out with a venue.  They can only run 3-4 rooms at a time, but I bet we can make do with that.  I’d also suggest reaching out to  SMU – I have a contact there (adding John to the DL) as he’s an alum and could probably help us get space out there as well.

 

John  - these guys are interested in planning a BarCamp for Dallas.  Can you head over to http://groups.google.com/group/barcampdallas and register?

 

Guys – John is the IT Pro Evangelist on my team, and my partner in the community business in South Central.  He and I would be the guys from Microsoft to do our part to help make this successful…

 

 

 

Thanks!

Chris

 

 

Chris Koenig - Microsoft Developer Evangelist

C: 214 385 5616 | http://chriskoenig.net | @chriskoenig

 

[Jason Ragsdale]

Thanks for the information Chris, I should have been specific but i was mentioning the other Chris about Eli White at Zend ;)

[Chris Koenig]

That’s the fun of having multiple Chris’ on the team :D  I can go by CK if you like - they used to call me that at my last job…

[MonkeyT]

Just got through the T-Shirt process for DallasPHP.
(25 custom 2-color on Hanes shirts for 13.25 ea, prices drop
dramatically with more qty and slightly with color changes - I think
down to around $6.50 or so but I wasn't dealing with quantities like
that.) Turns out the production house is in Arlington, but shipping
is free, so who cares.

I think Tommy's right that Addison isn't cheap on facilities, but a
central location is important. It's not like we have to entertain
them through the evening so nearby lunch would be the big issue.
After-hours revelers could caravan to any destination.

Badges would be nice, but generics are fine. Generic badges with
stickers would be an OK twist, plus there would be stickers to give
away as brand advertising.






On Oct 1, 3:47 pm, Chris Koenig <Chris.Koe...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> That's the fun of having multiple Chris' on the team :D  I can go by CK if you like - they used to call me that at my last job...

>
> Thanks!
> Chris
>
> Chris Koenig - Microsoft Developer Evangelist

> C: 214 385 5616 |http://chriskoenig.net| @chriskoenig<http://twitter.com/chriskoenig>
>
> [PDC09_EmailSignature_Dark]<http://microsoftpdc.com/>

>
> From: barcam...@googlegroups.com [mailto:barcam...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jason Ragsdale
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:23 PM
> To: barcam...@googlegroups.com
> Cc: John Weston
> Subject: [BarCampDallas] Re: A few questions
>
> Thanks for the information Chris, I should have been specific but i was mentioning the other Chris about Eli White at Zend ;)

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Chris Koenig <Chris.Koe...@microsoft.com<mailto:Chris.Koe...@microsoft.com>> wrote:
>
> I personally don't know anyone from Zend in Dallas, but I know a BUNCH of the .NET-oriented companies and groups.  We can also talk with Improving Enterprises.  They hosted the last Dallas BarCamp and would, I'm sure, be interested in helping out with a venue.  They can only run 3-4 rooms at a time, but I bet we can make do with that.  I'd also suggest reaching out to  SMU - I have a contact there (adding John to the DL) as he's an alum and could probably help us get space out there as well.

>
> John  - these guys are interested in planning a BarCamp for Dallas.  Can you head over tohttp://groups.google.com/group/barcampdallasand register?
>

> Guys - John is the IT Pro Evangelist on my team, and my partner in the community business in South Central.  He and I would be the guys from Microsoft to do our part to help make this successful...

>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
> Chris Koenig - Microsoft Developer Evangelist
>

> C: 214 385 5616 |http://chriskoenig.net| @chriskoenig<http://twitter.com/chriskoenig>
>
> [PDC09_EmailSignature_Dark]<http://microsoftpdc.com/>

>
> From: barcam...@googlegroups.com<mailto:barcam...@googlegroups.com> [mailto:barcam...@googlegroups.com<mailto:barcam...@googlegroups.co m>] On Behalf Of Jason Ragsdale
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 11:39 AM
> To: barcam...@googlegroups.com<mailto:barcam...@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [BarCampDallas] Re: A few questions
>
> Chris, do you think Eli would be a good contact to start with for Zend? As for badges, yeh we could just do something as simple as "hello my name is" as this is supposed to be an un-conference .
>

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Chris Cornutt <eny...@phpdeveloper.org<mailto:eny...@phpdeveloper.org>> wrote:
>
> I'd vote for Addison...pretty central to both the Northerners and those in-town. I'm sure we could find something relatively cheap in the area. Though the MS campus would probably be cheapest ;)
>
> I bet we could get Zend and maybe Oracle or someone to help out...stickers might be better than shirts, though. Shirts get pretty expensive pretty quickly.
>
> Something to consider - at the Big (D)esign conference, for the badges they just had ones with an area where the attendee could just write in their name with a sharpie. No date information on it so they could be used forever if they wanted to.
>
> -chris
>

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jason Ragsdale <jr...@jasrags.net<mailto:jr...@jasrags.net>> wrote:
>
> We need to start pondering a few things,
>
> Locations
>    Microsoft Campus, Deep Ellum, Addison
>
> Food
>   Chipotle
>
> T-Shirts/Stickers
>
> Badges
>
> Additional sponsers
>   Yahoo
>
> Chris with Microsoft has allocated some money for us but more sponsors could not hurt :)
>
> --
> Senior Editor
> PHPDeveloper.org

> ccorn...@phpdeveloper.org<mailto:ccorn...@phpdeveloper.org>
>
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[the.beth]

Hey all

I just attended BarCampMilwaukee4 (http://barcampmilwaukee.com) this
past weekend (the 1st weekend of October, and my 1st BC so far), and
would like to shoot some ideas to y'all about what I saw/experienced
there. (I'm from Lewisville/Irving, and am temporarily out of the
state.)

Food.
For day 1 lunch, participants were asked to bring in ingredients or a
complete dish for a potluck, to help keep event costs down. We were
given a "Mexican" theme, but nonetheless, foods did not stay resricted
to just Mexican. Just a listing of what I remember seeing were chips/
salsa, fresh fruits, taco fixings, home-baked cakes with the BarCamp
logo & also the BarCampMKE4 design ( and 1 cake was even vegan),
candy, dried fruits, soda, water, tortillas, a bean/corn dish,
cookies, and much more. For day 1 dinner: pizza from Streetza, a local
Milwaukee mobile pizza kitchen (http://streetza.com), was served
courtesy of one of the sponsors. And of course, there was still a lot
of foodstuffs and snacks left over from lunch. Then, for day 2
breakfast: a couple of the main players volunteered to griddle up some
pancakes, eggs and sausage links for everyone. Frozen berries, cool
whip, and syrup were available as pancake toppings. There was milk and
breakfast pastries as well. Lunch day 2, croisanwiches & wraps &
single-serving bags of chips were brought in from a catering company
courtesy of another one of the sponsors. Also, participants were asked
to bring their own plate/bowl/cup/utensils, and the means to wash them
were available in the building. Some did, but also a few participants
opted to buy disposable plates & utensils for everyone to use.

T-shirts.
One of the main players recruited people for a sort of design contest
(http://gabewollenburg.com/node/288) for the shirt design, and there
were a couple designs that ended up being voted on. Then, the final
product was a mashup of the 2 designs. They only ordered a limited
number of shirts in various sizes, so the first 200 folks to register
for the event received a t-shirt. I am really pleased with the design
& color that was chosen.

Nametags.
We just used plain white label stickers & wrote our names on them with
sharpies. Worked well enough.

Location.
Typically, the Milwaukee BarCamp would be held at Bucketworks (http://
bucketworks.org), but not this year as their building became flooded &
they are looking for new space. Luckily, there was some unused office
space at the Chase Commerce Center (on Milwaukee's south side), and
the landlord offered use of the space for BarCampMKE at an extremely
good rate.

Sponsors.
Several local technology-related firms, as well as others. A list is
located on the BCMKE4 website. As well, a donation page is available
on the website, and pledges/donations were taken from participants
during the unconference for next year's BCMKE. Over $3,000 was pledged/
raised so far.

I really enjoyed attending BCMKE4, and can't wait to attend another,
in Milwaukee or elsewhere. If I think of anything else to add/point
out on how things were done at BCMKE4, I'll post again. Also, feel
free to ask me any questions on anything else that I may have observed
or experienced there, in regards to planning the next BarCamp Dallas

[jonbcampos]

Just got word about this.

I'd be willing to help, I've gone through these shooting matches. When
were you all thinking of hosting this?

Jonathan Campos
Dallas Flex User Group Manager
http://www.d-flex.org/
blog: http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jonbcampos

[Jason Ragsdale]

Q1 10 is looking like the time. Sometime around March.

[Jonathan Campos]

That is a really good time for many reasons. I have plenty of really cool things to show and could help. Where are the current pain points? I've read through the list and didn't know if there were more issues solved that haven't been posted yet or not.

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[Tim Stiles]

We've been kinda tied up with Codeworks, big October Zend presentation
and Tulsa Techfest. Things will settle down soon. We also have a
dallasphp irc channel that will facilitate some more immediate
interaction when needed.

Tim

[Jason Ragsdale]

To anyone on this list, let's meet for lunch on Wednesday 10/21 11:45am @ The food court at the Galleria mall. We will discuss all things BarCamp.

[Tim Stiles]

My schedule is bare except for that particular day.  Could it be moved slightly in any direction?

[Jonathan Campos]

As long as it isn't monday I can be there - jury duty :(

[Jason Ragsdale]

Thursday then?

[Tim Stiles]

Good for me.

[Chris Cornutt]

Oh sure, hold it during ZendCon ;) That's okay, I'm sure there'll be more...
-chris

[the.beth]

hopefully i can make it to this meeting thursday. i will _just_ be
getting back into town from wisconsin next week (dont know the exact
day), but hoping i'll be able to make it to meet w/ y'all

[Jason Ragsdale]

Cool, we will be having more as we go along.

[MetalDust]

Hi My Name is Eric.

I'm working on my web site which has nothing useful yet.
http://www.metaldust.com

I attended BarCamp San Diego Last Year. http://www.barcampsd.org/

I'll be at the meeting Thursday.

I work with Lego Mindstorms Robots and plan to give a presentation.

I write code in VB.NET for a living, and I am using RobotC.
httP://www.robotc.net

[Daniel Dura - Adobe]

Ill be there just to see the mindstorms! Anyways, Jason, I can't make
the lunch today, but just let me know what you need. I can also see
about getting you in touch with someone at Zend (I have done some
joint events with them in the past, not sure if I know anyone in the
Dallas office but I can find out.) Just let me know.

Danny

On Oct 21, 2:04 am, MetalDust <supp...@metaldust.com> wrote:
> Hi My Name is Eric.
>

> I'm working on my web site which has nothing useful yet.http://www.metaldust.com
>
> I attended BarCamp San Diego Last Year.http://www.barcampsd.org/

[Jason Ragsdale]

Danny,
  We can talk more about zend when i see you next week. I have a contact with them but am waiting for them to finish up with ZendCon this week.
-Jason

[Jonathan Campos]

I'll be there, where in the Food Court are we meeting?

[Jason Ragsdale]

Upstairs, Just look for me. Ill be in a gray shirt with a moose on it :)

[Jonathan Campos]

I contacted UTD. They are checking on things but did say that it was "iffy" because they typically don't reserve rooms for sundays. Just keeping everyone up on things.

[Jason Ragsdale]

I think we were shooting for saturday.

[Jonathan Campos]

There was talk of saturday and sunday. So I was asking for both. If sunday is completely off the list then that may help.

[Jason Ragsdale]

Cool, just checking :)