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Monday Aug 04, 2008

Big thanks to all for BarCamp RDU 2008!

Comments[1] 11:00AM Aug 04, 2008 by Dave in General

To the campers, volunteers and sponsors of BarCamp RDU 2008,

Thanks for making BarCamp RDU 2008 a wonderfully successful event! We brought together around 150 of the best and brightest developers, web technologists, designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, social media experts and open source advocates in the Triangle area and surrounding regions. Anybody who wanted could pitch a session and we ended up with 41 sessions on topics of software development, business, social media, science, education and even cross step waltz. We learned a heck of a lot from each other and had a lot of fun in the process.

Below is the session grid that the attendees put together.

At Flickr.com

You can find a list of the sessions, broken down by category and room size here:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxWBlx3_nQhOhwUH1jWnfMw

Thanks to our generous host Red Hat, we were able to provide excellent facilities with a variety of rooms, white boards, projectors, a public address system. Thanks to our financial sponsors, we enjoyed a pre-party at Tyler's Tap Room in Durham, NC on the Friday evening before camp. And we enjoyed a breakfast of bagels, fruit and coffee. We had lunch from NeoMonde restaurant and provided plenty of sodas and water throughout the day. Clearwire was on site to ensure we had sufficient Wifi coverage for attendees.

We took time to thank our sponsors at the event, on the events web page, in our blog posts about the event, on the back of the t-shirts and on signs placed prominently around the venue. Below is an example.

At Flickr.com

Let's thank them one more time! Big thanks to BlueStripe Software, Canonical, Carborro Creative Coworking, Design Hammer, Edge Office, IBM developerWorks, iContact, Lulu.com, Montie Design, OpenNMS.org, Red Hat, rPath and Viget Labs.

In past years, BarCamp RDU led by Fred Stutzman.
This year the organizing committee was:

• Dave Johnson (coordination and sponsors)
• Wayne Sutton (t-shirts and technology)
• Greg DeKoenigsberg (facilities and coordination)
  
• Andi Johnson (budget and vendors)
• Kipp Bodnar (voluneer coordinator)
• Matt Frye (Coffee and sound)
• Scott Morningstar (Badges)
• Fred Stutzman and others monitored our mailing list to make sure we didn't panic

And we had help from a dozen or so volunteers on site. There were a couple of hiccups and things to be improved next year, but overall we think this was the best BarCamp RDU yet and Fred agrees. We're looking forward to doing it again so it won't be too long before you're hearing from us about the next BarCamp RDU.

Thanks again for your support!

PS. here are some more links about BarCamp RDU 2008

Pictures at Flickr.com:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fstutzman/tags/barcamprdu2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snoopdave/tags/barcamprdu2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynesutton/tags/barcamprdu2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo_td/tags/barcamprdu2008

Blog posts and articles tagged with barcamprdu2008:

http://delicious.com/tag/barcamprdu2008

And a lot of folks were Twittering about BarCamp RDU too:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=barcamprdu

Saturday Aug 02, 2008

BarCamp fun for the whole family

Comments[2] 11:18PM Aug 02, 2008 by Dave in General

BarCamp RDU was great fun this year and I'll probably blog a bit more about it later, but for now here's my favorite picture from the event; taken by Fred Stutzman, who led the event in 2007 and 2008. It's my son Alex (11), using Wayne Sutton's cell-phone to stream video of me giving the opening intro:

Alex really enjoyed helping out and he attended sessions on his own including iPhone development and file system encryption, and he got to play werewolf for the first time.

Thursday Jul 31, 2008

Triangle is hopping!

Comments[1] 10:09AM Jul 31, 2008 by Dave in General

Joe Gregorio: Wow, the local area is really hopping these days, check out the 14 upcoming conferences, camps, workshops and events. Here's some video from the just passed RTP Startup Weekend, we've got coworking sites popping up, and of course a blog to cover it all.

That blog that Joe mentioned is new, NBC 17's 30threads.com, which launched last night at a very well attended blogger, beer and BBQ bash in the Edge Office coworking space in downtown Raleigh. The site is both a community aggregator and a blog authored by local/social media superheros Wayne Sutton and Ginny Skalski. Congrats to Ginny, Wayne and NBC 17 on a great launch and what looks to be a great new community site like no other in the Triangle.

Saturday Jul 26, 2008

1 week 'til BarCamp RDU!

Comments[0] 11:11AM Jul 26, 2008 by Dave in General

BarCamp RDU 2008 is one week from today and it's shaping up the be the biggest and I hope the best BarCamp RDU so far.

Here are a couple of notes for attendees:

Check the attendee list! On July 21, we decided we had budget and space to register everybody on the waiting list. If you were on the waiting list you are now registered to attend.

Remove yourself if you can't attend. If you registered but cannot make it, please remove your name from the list. For planning purposes, we need to have as accurate a count as is possible.

Propose sessions in advance. If you are interested in initiating or attending a session on a specific topic, then go right ahead and add your topic to the Proposed Sessions list.

Oh, and if you are interested in helping out with preparations or on the day of the event, then please let us know (dave.johnson at rollerweblogger.org or wayne at wayne-sutton.com)

And one final note. BarCamp RDU would not be possible without the very generous financial support of our sponsors and our host. So...

Thanks to the BarCamp RDU 2008 sponsors!

• BlueStripe Software
• Canonical
• Carborro Creative Coworking
• Design Hammer
• Edge Office
• IBM developerWorks
• iContact
• Lulu.com
• Montie Design
• OpenNMS.org
• Red Hat (BarCamp RDU 2006, 2007 and 2008 host)
• rPath
• Viget Labs

See you next Saturday at BarCamp RDU 2008!

Thursday Jul 17, 2008

Sixteen days until BarCamp RDU 2008

Comments[0] 01:13PM Jul 17, 2008 by Dave in General

Just a gentle reminder that BarCamp RDU 2008 is coming soon. And one request. We've got 209 people registered and 31 on the waiting list so please help us out and if you registered but cannot make it, please remove your name from the list.

If you are interested in helping out with preparations or on the day of the event, then please let us know (dave.johnson at rollerweblogger.org or wayne at wayne-sutton.com)

Wednesday Jun 04, 2008

Help sponsor BarCamp RDU 2008

Comments[4] 05:27PM Jun 04, 2008 by Dave in General

After attending two great BarCamps here in Raleigh, I'm just as pleased as punch to be helping out on the BarCamp RDU organizing committee this year.

We put out the call for sponsors a couple of weeks ago and thanks to some generous sponsors including iContact, Canonical, rPath, Brian Russell, OpenNMS and Montie Design we quickly met 65% of our small budget. Now we need to wrap things up, money-wise. If you'd like to get some great positive exposure among the best and brightest in the local tech community by sponsoring, here's your chance.

If you're interested in sponsoring or helping out as a volunteer, contact me via email for more info (dave.johnson at rollerweblogger.org). If you're interested in attending, you'll have to add your name to the waiting list -- at this point we're sold out.