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My First BarCamp

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

I spent portions of this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday attending my very first BarCamp, held here in Portland at CubeSpace.
The origins of BarCamp are interesting; back in 2005, O’Reilly held a user-generated conference called Foo Camp that was invite only. Lots of people wa ... Continue reading »

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  • bex

    1 year ago

    Why did Oracle sponsor Portland BarCamp, and not Minneapolis BarCamp? Minneapolis has more BarCamp attendees than any other one in the hemisphere:

    https://barcamp.pbwiki.com/MinneBar

    Almost 300 signed up already for next week... And speaking of off-topic sessions, I'll be presenting "Communication For Geeks"
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @bex: Did you (or Billy) ask Justin to sponsor? I asked Marius, expecting a no, but he said yes and here we are. Your BarCamp may be bigger than ours, but we had bubble tea.
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  • Selena

    1 year ago

    Hey Jake - it was nice to hang out and talk. I dug your business sense. Hopefully I'll be able to attend the next Lunch 2.0. And when we finally get our cafe built where I work, maybe I can host :)

    -selena
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Selena: Ditto, see you May 28 at Vidoop for next Lunch 2.0?
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  • bex

    1 year ago

    I just emailed Justin, asking if he'd be interested in sponsoring... thanks for the idea!

    Bubble tea, eh? No bubble tea at MinneBar, but last year we had three kegs of microbrew. I guess we'll just have to settle for that ;-)
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @bex: Yeah, we had kegs too. I also emailed Justin on your behalf.
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