From jason at hostedlabs.com  Tue Aug  5 13:07:16 2008
From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius)
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:07:16 -0500
Subject: [chicago-lisp] BARcamp Chicago Aug 15th!
Message-ID: <48985084.2010709@hostedlabs.com>

Hey Everyone,

   BARcamp Chicago 2008 is coming up in a week and a half!  The weekend 
of Aug 15th at 1240 W. Harrison St (UIC area).  Wow, time flies.

   Its being held at the Innovation Center at UIC which is this cool new 
space for tech commercialization projects.  I posted a couple of 
snapshots on the wiki:

http://barcampchicago.com/WherePage

   Sean Johnson is working on the Food and I know its going to be 
impossible, but we'd like to try and estimate the amount.  Can people 
either reply to me or add their name to the wiki?

http://barcampchicago.com/AttendeeList
-or-
barcamp-subscribe at corp.hostedlabs.com

   One of the really cool events happening at BARcamp this year is an 
Erlang workshop being given by Martin Logan and Erlang User group team. 
  If you dont know about Erlang, its a very cool Functional language 
thats good for distributed computing.  Martin and others at Orbitz are 
putting some Erlang code into production and they have an open source 
project that they are putting out I believe.

   As with every year, we have lots of cool talks lined up and I expect 
a lot more to develop over the weekend. The Chicago LUG is donating a 
keg, like the previous years and the organizers have been working like 
crazy.  Its coming together despite my being a disorganized slacker ;-)

   CALL FOR HELP:

1) RSVP in some form or fashion, (call me, email, join the list, add to 
wiki).  Need to size catering.

2) Get your company to participate, sposnor, bring schwag, give a talk 
about technology you are using or building.

3) Give a talk.

4) Spread the word.


Also note:

Social Dev Camp is coming up this weekend, at IIT.  Check it out: 
http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialDevCampChicago


Thats it for now.  Looking forward to seeing you all next weekend!

-jason
jason at hostedlabs.com
847.208.1000



From jason at hostedlabs.com  Fri Aug 15 13:01:53 2008
From: jason at hostedlabs.com (Jason Rexilius)
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:01:53 -0500
Subject: [chicago-lisp] BArcamp Chicago 2008 in 26 hours
Message-ID: <48A57E41.10905@hostedlabs.com>

Hey Everyone!

   We are starting set-up this evening and BARcamp officially starts 
11:00 Saturday morning!  Some photos of the venue have been uploaded, 
kegs are on the way, food is being ordered.  Crazy, but its all coming 
together.

   Saturday 10:00am August 16th at 1240 W Harrison, Chicago IL.
   http://barcampchicago.com/

   The Erlang Workshop starts at noon and kicks off a weekend long 
Erlang code competition.

   There are, as always, some great talks planned and even more great 
talks that aren't planned ;-)

   Thanks to the organizers and sponsors for making this happen!

   Look forward to seeing you all this weekend.

-jason