BarCampTdot, fo’shizzle

by david on May 2, 2006

BarCampTdot aka BarCampToronto2.0, TorCamp2, BarCampTrawna, BarCampHogtown, BarCampBigSmoke is happening May 13-14 at Liberty Village, mesh Conference. Yes, we know it’s Mother’s Day, we’re working around it, we’re doing our very best to have a work-life balance but this is when people were available. So bring your kids, bring your Mom (or Mum), come out and participate.

Mark Stephenson, who provided some super swanky logos for BarCampOttawa, has provided a couple of sexy logos for BarCampTdot (As Bryce points out the PNG version has rounded corners and no transparency, time to get out the Photoshop, Fireworks or GIMP). Add one of these to your site, to a blog post, to the wiki.

A couple of weekends ago a group of us travelled to Ottawa for BarCampOttawa, it looks like a bunch of Ottawa campers and Vancouver campers are making their way to Toronto for BarCampTdot. Avi Bryant and Andrew Catton in town from Vancity and were at the last DemoCamp where they demoed DabbleDB. With the Bryght crew rolling in, and others this should be the best BarCampToronto yet!

We have been getting some great press coverage of our events with Bryce and W.R. on the front page of the Technology section of the Ottawa Citizen. And more indepth article calling BarCampOttawa a “geekfest success” there seems to be no end to our coverage. Rick Spence covered the BarCampToronto and DemoCamp scene in his latest column, Meet the new web,
for Profit Magazine (thought I am still not sure how an unconference gets coverage in a magazine called Profit).

Sign up on the wiki, come check us out, it is going to be a wild ride.

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  • Andre Charland

    Hey Y'all.





    Just thought I'd let you know another camper for Vancity will be joinin' ya. Alexei White from eBusiness Applications and AjaxInfo will be there. He'll have some cool shiny AJAX stuff to show off and definitely be engaged in all things UI and UX related;-)





    Dre.

  • Bryce Johnson

    Ok here is an idea.





    On saturday we do all the demos, sessions, preentations that require power, projectors, furniture and computers. We do our normal catering and snacks and have a good time.





    Sunday we do all the sessions that don't need technology (I'm sure I can print out my slides and do my presentation ala Subterranean Homesick Blues )





    We do this in High Park where there is the park, train, zoo, etc.





    Now I'm no expert but if someone wanted to help me we could whip together a BarCamp Puppet show (lord knows I like puppets) I wonder if we could do something that is still on topic: & Client/Team relationship Scenarios with puppets & Engage the audience about what kids liek about the internet.





    Bryce

  • Roland Tanglao

    hi:





    i will be there from noonish Saturday to noon-ish Sunday. have to go to Hamilton for mother's day late lunch with my mother at 1p.m.





    I'll be back in TO at 8p.m. and I'd love to meet up with others for a Sunday late night pub crawl and I am up for bourbon too :-) !

  • David Crow

    I love the idea of doing something more family friendly:



    <ul><li> trip to Centre Island or with less amusment park</li>

    <li>visit the AGO</li>

    <li> Picnic in Hyde Park</li>

    <li> Tour of Kensington Market</li>

    </ul>

    All kinds of fun stuff to do in the city.

  • Bryce Johnson

    I would counter your fo'shizzle with a ma nizzle but Veronica gets mad when I talk like that.





    I wonder if we could think of some family friendly events for Sunday. LAN-Party (kidding) If anyone has some good ideas please let them be known.





    I'm concerned that if people show up only on Saturday then this is what the Sunday Schedule will look like:





    11:00 & 5:00 (Birds of a Feather) HowTO: drink bourbon





    :-)

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