Wed, 08 Oct 08
Yes Virginia, BarCampBoulder lives!
It’s coming up soon: Oct 17 and 18.
Rumors of its death were greatly exaggerated.
I wish I could attend (last time was a lot of fun), but I’m doubtful.
Mon, 08 Sep 08
Has BarCamp Boulder expired?
Is BarCamp Colorado/Denver/Boulder dead? I haven’t heard from the mailing list in a long long time. Apparently, Andrew Hyde was the key motivator behind BarCamp, and he’s moved on to other things.
Wed, 06 Jun 07
Announcement: FRUGOS GeoSummit 2007
One of my clients is helping out with this unconference. If you’re into GIS, it seems like it’d be worth going. I certainly had fun at the last unconference I went to. I am planning to attend; hope I see you there.
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FRUGOS (Front Range Users of Geospatial Open Source) is holding its
first GeoSummit on Saturday, June 16th at Churchill Navigation–100
Arapahoe–in Boulder.
This will be a unique gathering of a variety of folks interested in
Place–geo-types, hackers, academics, artists, amateur enthusiasts,
etc. While there certainly will be representation from the GIS and open
source worlds, we encourage all who are fascinated about the
intersections of technology and engagement with the world around us to
participate.
Also, we’ll be structuring the day around the “un-conference” model (see
http://www.barcamp.org), so, for starters, you
can expect:
No Pitches
No PowerPoint
No Passivity (unless you’re a little sleepy after lunch)
Bring your laptop (we’ll have wireless), and a project or enthusiasm
you’d like to talk about with the group, get feedback, and collaborate
on fresh solutions: the agenda of the day will be structured during
the morning registration/sign-up/socializing period.
If interested–
1) RSVP by joining the Google Groups set up for this event–
http://groups.google.com/group/geosummit
2) Bring a laptop (and cellphone/GPS if your enthusiasms tilt that
way), your idea/project, and willingness to collaborate
3) Spread the word
Tentative Schedule
9:30-10:30AM Registration, refreshment, socializing
10:30-12ish Sessions
12ish-2 Lunch (there’s a grill, beverages, and hiking trails)
2-? Sessions
This promises to be a great combination of creativity, intellectual
engagement, eating and drinking, and socializing.
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Technorati Tags: barcamp, gis, unconference
Sat, 31 Mar 07
Boulder BarCamp notes
I just went to BarCampBoulder, and had a blast. Basically, it’s a self organized conference. Free, no set schedule (there’s a white board with a tenative schedule) and anyone can give a talk about anything. Very cool. Here’s a random link fest covering topics I chose to make note of.
- Microformats, especially hCal. Feasibility of machine aggregation of Boulder free events, and complexities inherent in such an effort.
- An understanding of how slippery the concept of “The Semantic Web” is.
- An excellent post about handling credit card transactions.
- To clean up user generated content, and avoid XSS attacks, use UBB or some other markup language. Another option is to validate any user generated content against an XHTML Mobile DTD, which should screen out any nastiness.
- CA-Cert, a way to generate SSL certificates for free, that is slightly better than self signed certs.
- CardSpace and OpenID,and the differences and benefits of using each.
- A post about the Laws of Identity
- ColourLovers, for all you palette hounds out there.
- A fascinating discussion of the amount of data running through Digital Globe’s systems.
- An overview of CMSes worth looking at: Typo3, TextPattern, Radiant
- A discussion of how open communities work (and don’t), including Wikipedia.
It was a fascinating day. There seemed to be a business track and a technical track, and there ended up being about 30ish folks there. Well worth it, if for no other reason than the intellectual ferment.