[DLC] Fwd: [LUNI] Barcamp (request for equipment)

[Samir Faci]

You know, I'm not exactly an authority on the subject, I've talked to
Jason a few times, but I'm not as involved in barcamp as I should be.

I do know their website is:  http://barcampchicago.com/  I'm not sure
if they're affiliated with .... the national chapter?  kinda funny
using those terms for barcamp.

Either ways, I went last year, and it was a ridiculous among of beer,
where most of the people that stayed for the entire duration were in a
hazy state somewhere between buzzed and drunk for 3 days.  Lots of
random people just showed up, and anyone who wanted to do a
presentation, just added their name to the list.

Founder of wikipedia showed up last year out of the blue.  They had a
geek/social/philosophy corner.

If you guys want, you should maybe hold a dlc tech talk there if you
want, you might get a bigger audience (or not, who knows).

Either ways, a good bit of UIC's lug/acm should be there, from the
sound of it, dlc might be involved, it should be lots of fun one way
or another.

Oh, I just noticed they had an install fest going on, I'll bring some
ubuntu/gentoo/whatever CDs... and probably end up helping out in that
department...

--
Samir

On 6/11/07, Kevin Reedy <kevinreedy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have seen this email come across the list a few times and didn't seem too
> interested. Then I looked more into what barcamp is and previous events in
> other cities. Now, I am excited about it. It seems like it is a very laid
> back get-together/un-conference of local geeks doing presentations similar
> to DLC's tech talks. www.barcamp.org has some more information and videos
> about it all. I am 95% sure that I will be attending, is anyone else from
> DePaul thinking about going? I think it would be great to get a DePaul
> presence there. A quick question for Samir though, why is this barcamp not
> listed on the official site?
>
>
>
> On 6/10/07, Samir Faci <sfaci at cs.uic.edu> wrote:
> >
> > this is an fyi on the original email, and a reminder that the wiki is
> > open, and you should register if you're planning on attending.
> >
> > --
> > Samir
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Trev Peterson < trev at advanced-reality.com>
> > Date: Jun 10, 2007 4:19 PM
> > Subject: [LUNI] Barcamp (request for equipment)
> > To: luni at luni.org, planbarcamp at luni.org, chlue at chlue.org
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Barcamp Chicago, an opensource webtech conference
> > (http://barcampchicago.com/index.php ), is coming up in 2
> weeks (June
> > 23-24th).  This is a grass-roots convention by the community for the
> > community.
> >
> > I am one of the people who volunteered to coordinate the power and
> > networking infrastructure.  We are looking equipment we can use for the
> > entire weekend.  In particular we could use: 8+ outlet powerstrips, 5+
> > powerstrips, 12+ port 10/100 switches, UPSes and an Access Point.  If
> > you have any of the equipment and are willing to support Barcamp by
> > letting us use it for the weekend please update the wiki page with your
> > name, a contact phone number and the items you are committing to bring.
> > The Network and Power wiki page is here:
> > http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=NetworkandPower
> >
> > We will be contacting people next week to coordinate equipment
> > transportation.
> >
> > If you plan to attend but can not/do not wish to have your hardware at
> > Barcamp for the entire weekend please bring a small switch, cables and a
> > power strip or one of these for a small group.
> >
> > Thanks and hope to see you all there,
> > --
> > Trev Peterson
> > Advanced Reality
> > Email: trev at advanced-reality.com
> > Phone: +1 847 406 9018
> >
> >
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