Barcamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

BarCamp Intro Movie - Another BarCamp Movie

Barcamp 2008 is scheduled for August 23rd, 2008. Our 2007 Retrospective is here for you to peruse and we have pictures here:

• 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/

The main wiki site for BarCampDesMoines has moved to http://barcamp.org/BarCampDesMoines

Keep Informed

Mailing List

• Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/barcampdesmoines
• Group email: barcampdesmoines@googlegroups.com

 Loans forum

Event details

Who?

Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join!

When

Where

Adventureland Inn

3200 Adventureland Drive

Altoona, IA 50009 Sohbet Chat nick

Where to stay?

Adventureland Inn

For reservations please call (515) 265-7321

Information about the Adventureland Inn

Sponsors

We'll need quite a few sponsors for this event. Please send an e-mail to mail@sourceallies.com if you know of someone or some organization who would like to sponsor this event. Donations from corporations are limited to $300.00

2007 Sponsors

Schedule

10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Food:

Proposed Sessions

Have a demo of some stuff you're working on? How about a conceptual talk on best practices?

2008 Discussions

• Eclipse and Mylyn - Mylyn is a task-focused interface for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. - Mike Henke
• Subversion/Trac for Dummies - Mike Henke

2007 Discussions

• Linux Paradigms - Josh More
• How to choose technology, a discussion - Josh More
• Monitoring Best Practices, a discussion - Josh More
• Waterfall -> Agile -> ? Lean ? - Brandon Carlson
• GTD 4 Dummies - Brandon Carlson
• Improve BarCamp - Brandon Carlson
• Trixbox & Asterisk VoIP - Matt Vincent
• SQL Server Replication - Vic Banta
• OpenNMS - Scott Peshak
• Cocoa/RubyCocoa (Or What Every Apple Fanboy Wants to Do) - Luke Amdor
• How OSGi Will Slowly Over the World- Luke Amdor
• The past, present and future of eBooks (electronic books) - Bill Davis
• Old programmers never die, they just....have trouble finding a job; tips for finding jobs and staying current - Bill Davis
• iPhone - The latest hacking challenge - Bill Davis
• Add More...

Check out the rules and then post a topic! As you can see, it's a wide open slate right now.

Topics I would like to hear about

• Eclipse RCP
• Flex
• Intro to Ruby on Rails

Planners

• Vic Banta, Source Allies
• Matt Vincent, Source Allies
• Dave Weis, Internet Solver
• Brandon Carlson, Nerd
• Luke Amdor, Iowa Student Loan
• Bill Davis, unemployed programmer
• Much more help is needed...add yourself

Volunteers

• add yourself...

Participants (aka Campers)

• Rob Jensen
• Andy Beatty
• add yourself...

Task List

(please cross out when it's done)

• Get someone to do videography for a couple hours during the day (we'll post the edited video on the web)
• Get a sponsor for BarCamp Des Moines T-shirts
• -Order T-shirts (to be done this Friday) -- what they'll look like: TeeShirts
• Get a band/entertainment lined up We'd like to get more than one Techno-ish DJ though
• Get a sponsor to donate wireless mics and multiple LCD projectors
• Ask someone with great graphic design skills to create a logo ASAP (these can be used as a starting point)
  • http://www.barcamp.org/LogoGallery
  • http://barcampdesmoines.pbwiki.com/f/capitol.png
  • http://barcampdesmoines.pbwiki.com/f/state-capitol-300x.jpg
  • Here's one submission (SVG available):

• Here's another submission:

Tech

Wifi - WiFi will be available. Details to follow...

Projector - Source Allies (+1), Alliance Technologies (+1)... we'll still need more

White Boards - Does anyone have large whiteboards on wheels they can bring?

Photo - We'll be posting photos and video of this event.

Audio - Does anyone have some podcasting expertise to donate?

Wireless Mics will be available

Travel-airfare-hotel

Non-tech

Swag: We now have Barcamp name badges and also loads of GeekSwag!

Breakfast - details to come as sponsors sign up?

Lunch - details to come as sponsors sign up?

Coffee/Tea - details to come as sponsors sign up?

Tables and chairs will be setup in clusters across three separate conference rooms.

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