Pre-BarCampOrlando Events

[Gregg Pollack]

Barcamp is getting closer!

    Two and a half weeks left till our main event, April 18th.  I thought I'd let you know about a few events going on around town leading up to BarCamp, including the "Battle of the Web Frameworks", Doterati's first big Tech event April 8th where we take 4 different technologies and make them battle it out on stage! 

Saturday, April 4th - Pillowlando - 5pm-5:30pm, at Duncan Park at SunTrust Center
    PILLOWLANDO9 is Orlando’s “Official 2009 World Pillow Fight Day Event,” timed to coincide with pillow fights in cities all over the world; and (currently) the only event of its kind in the state of Florida.
    http://www.thedailycity.com/2009/03/pillowlando-april-4-2009.html

Monday, April 6th - Adobe Developers of Greater Orlando at Devry - 7 PM
    Presentation on Aspect Oriented Programming for AS3 by Maxim Porges, and a Presentation on High Performance Javascript by Adam Fortuna.
    http://adogo.us/2009/03/28/april-6th-primer-in-search-of-aop-for-as3/

Thursday, April 8th - Battle of the Web Frameworks - doors open at 6:30 PM at Slingapours
      If you had to build a website from scratch, which technology would you use to do it? What if you could throw each web framework into thunder dome, watch them battle to the death, and see which emerged the sole survivor?  The PHP guy (David Rogers), Python Guy (Joshua Blount), Java guy (Jason Skipper), and me (the Ruby guy) will be giving 15 minute presentations describing why you should be using OUR framework of choice to develop websites.  It should be an interesting night of discussion, bring your questions and come support your language of choice!
     http://www.doterati.com/events/battle-of-the-web-frameworks

Friday, April 3rd, 10th, and 17th - Free Coworking at CoLab - 9 AM - 6 PM
     Don't forget, every friday is free co-working day at CoLab.  Come work and have lunch with other techs from the community.  See the website for more information.
     http://www.colaborlando.com

Friday, April 10th - Lake Eola Photowalk - 5 PM at CoLab Orlando
     Do you like photography?  Ryan Price has occasionally been running Photo walks around town.  Photowalking (faux-toe-wha-keen), AKA the social act of taking pictures of things you probably walk past every day, but never take the time to really look at. One example would be those eyesore Gibson guitars all over town.
     http://floridacreatives.com/florida-creatives/event/lake-eola-photowalk

Friday, April 17th - Likemind Orlando - 8 AM - 11 AM at the Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar
    Come out and have your morning coffee with Likeminded people the day before BarCamp. 
    http://floridacreatives.com/florida-creatives/event/likemind-orlandos-brain-trust

and it's after BarCamp, but it's worth mentioning:

Monday, April 20th - Florida Creatives - 6 PM - 9 PM at the Crooked Bayou
    It's not a user group, it's not an unconference, it's not a geek dinner, it's not a meetup or a networking event. Yet, people who enjoy these types of events will find a home at our table.  Indeed, whether they be engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, actors, writers, or anyone else, the spark of invention brings us all to the marketplace, and has kept us coming back for over 2 years. 
    http://floridacreatives.com/florida-creatives/event/florida-creatives-happy-hour-29

Thanks for supporting Orlando Tech events,

Gregg Pollack
http://www.RailsEnvy.com