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!