- September 13th, 2007 /
- Chris Schultz
I’m very excited to announce BarCamp NOLA to be held in New Orleans January 5-6, 2008. Brian Oberkirch and I were rapping this morning, and we decided to nail down the date for January. Blake Haney is excited about it too, and we’re even hoping to get Tara Hunt and Chris Messina there.
We’re going to be hosting the BarCamp right here in the Voodoo Ventures offices. For anybody interested here’s some pics of the layout. ( I’m also going to try to recruit the guys at Blutique next door to throw in their space).
Brian has the great idea of making the first day a traditional BarCamp day, and the second day a hack day, where we put together some piece of web goodness for deserving local charitable organization. Anybody interested, sign up on the wiki.
I’d like to find a struggling small business we could help immediately with a new site or enhanced Web services. Spend a weekend cranking as a team and launch the thing at the end of the weekend. We can get help from our friends everywhere with regard to code, design, ideas. Brains, we have them at the ready.
The New Orleans Brainjams event a year and a half ago was a fantastic experience, and I’m really excited to be rallying the troops for a bigger, better, badder BarCamp experience.
So put January 5th and 6th on your calendar, and go put your name on the wiki. For you out-of-towners, why not make a weekend of it. Come the BarCamp so you can write off your trip, stay for the Sugar Bowl, which will be the BCS National Championship game in New Orleans on January 8th.
Update: Join the Facebook group for BarCampNOLA here.
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Sep 13, 2007 at 10:54 am
I’ll be there!
Sep 19, 2007 at 7:45 am
That will be a great event!
Sep 25, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Yo Chris – we are down w/ this.
Sep 26, 2007 at 8:04 am
Hey Silas –
Cool, I haven’t had a chance to rap with you about it yet, but thats great to hear. I’ll shoot ya an email too.
Chris
Sep 27, 2007 at 8:10 am
Is there any hours-online already set that would make sence stay on-line and probably be available via web-camera? I think this can be fun!)
Sep 28, 2007 at 7:19 am
OK, now it’s setup, and here is the tool that can be used for on-line communication, so just click on flatsourcing channel that is available if you’d like to reach us on-line for any development or programming question for example or just to see our office) should be fun)