BarCamp Des Moines 2008 Details for this Saturday morning!

[mattvincent]

BarCamp Des Moines 2008 is finally just a few days away! (This
Saturday AM!)

Based on the success of last year's BarCamp Des Moines, we have enough
sponsors to make this entire un-conference free to those who attend.
In addition to the usual crazy BarCamp swag, this year we are even
providing snacks/pop/breakfast/lunch/dinner at no cost to attendees!

We've put our many social media channels to the test this year and are
planning on a rather large turn out of all types of geeks here in Iowa
and even from surrounding states. At BarCamp, sitting down with a
podcaster, social media entrepreneur, systems administrator, Scrum PM,
cloud computing guru, QA expert, blogger, business analyst, SEO
expert, hacker (and people who are some or all of the above and more)
at one table is not out of the norm!

## Where to go
Adventureland Inn
3200 Adventureland Drive
Altoona, IA 50009
(515) 265-7321

## Schedule:
8:30 am – Doors open - Registration, Session Agenda, Networking and
Breakfast
9:30 am – Opening, Introductions, Explaination of BarCamp
10:00 am – Sessions Begin
Noon – Lunch Buffet
2:00 pm – Revisit Session Agenda
2:30 pm – Snack Break
3:00 pm - Sessions Resume
5:00 pm - Dinner Provided

## The local organizations who made this event free for us! Thank
you!!
~ Iowa Department of Economic Development http://www.iowalifechanging.com/
$2k
~ Source Allies, Inc. http://www.sourceallies.com $300
~ Wells Fargo http://www.wellsfargo.com $300
~ Big Creek Software http://www.bigcreek.com/ $300
~ Impromptu Studio http://impromptustudio.com $300
~ Internet Solver http://www.internetsolver.com $300
~ DMACC http://www.dmacc.edu $300
~ Alliance Technologies http://www.alliancetechnologies.net $300
~ Iowa Student Loan http://www.studentloan.org $300
~ Paragon IT Professionals http://www.paragonitpros.com $300
~ Robert Half Technologies http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/ $300
~ Lullabot http://www.lullabot.com $150

## Stuff you'll pick up at the registration table:
Your Official BarCamp Des Moines badges and lanyards, your choice of
Swag
http://picasaweb.google.com/mattcvincent/BarCampDesMoinesSwag
and other printed materials.

## What's available during the un-conference:
Wireless Internet!
There will be 3-4 screens set up with 3 tables grouped around each
screen
Each screen will have an Audio/Visual cart.
Each table grouping will have a extention cord and power strip in case
you
need plug-ins for laptops. We have a cordless lapel microphone
addressing the whole group.
Whiteboards, notecards, giant 3M post-its, paper/pens
 
## Session Topics
Well, you determine which topics will fly - but from past BarCamps and/
or what people
have already expressed interest in talking about, here is a sampling
of potential session topics:
~ Professional podcasting
~ Multi-tasking with Eclipse and Mylyn
~ Subversion/Trac for Dummies
~ Comparison of GTD tools
~ Estimation? We don't need no stinking estimation.
~ Nagios, radius & cacti
~ Application level data-locking techniques
~ Intro to Ext JS
~ Commercial applications of Social Media and Open Source Software
~ Cloud Computing
~ Drupal Demos
~ Ruby Demos
~ Grails Demos
~ Start-up web app demos and more!

## Pictures from BarCamp Des Moines 2007
~ http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=barcamp+desmoines
~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sourceallies/sets/72157602127276494/
~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/14146082@N04/

## Where to get more info
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61569565407
On Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/860092/
On the web: http://barcamp.org/BarCampDesMoines
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/dmbarcamp
Blogs at: http://dmbarcamp.org/
Mailing List at: http://groups.google.com/group/barcampdesmoines/

See you there!

[bwfrieds]

Great event! Sponsors, thank you.

> ~ Alliance Technologieshttp://www.alliancetechnologies.net     $300

> ~ Iowa Student Loan    http://www.studentloan.org       $300
> ~ Paragon IT Professionals      http://www.paragonitpros.com   $300
> ~ Robert Half Technologies      http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/   $300
> ~ Lullabot      http://www.lullabot.com     $150
>
> ## Stuff you'll pick up at the registration table:
> Your Official BarCamp Des Moines badges and lanyards, your choice of

> Swaghttp://picasaweb.google.com/mattcvincent/BarCampDesMoinesSwag

> ~http://www.flickr.com/photos/14146082@N04/

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:29 PM, bwfrieds <ben.w.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Great event! Sponsors, thank you.

I just wish that I could have been there. My only consolation is that
I couldn't be there because I was launching model rockets with my
kids!

--
Jeff Ollie

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
unfairness of the universe."

-- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"