[Chicago] BARcamp Chicago 15-16 July

[Jason Rexilius]

Hello everyone!

 July is turning out to be a great month for Chicago Tech! 
As most of you have probably heard BARcamp Chicago ( 
http://barcampchicago.com/ ) is on for  15-16 July at 648 w Randolph. 

Also note that tomorrow night (6th July) TECHcocktail ( 
http://www.techcocktail.com/blog/ ) is happening at 935 w Webster 
(STATE).  It looks like its going to be a fun time!

 Also a new group meeting has been shaping up for regular code jamming 
or hack sessions.  Take a look at:  http://techcoffee.infogami.com/


 BARcamp is looking to be a good weekend and will be a combined event 
with the Chicago Linux Users Group meeting.  There are close to 70 
people expected for BARcamp plus the Linux User community..  So far the 
agenda looks to have the following in the mix:

1) 48 hour dot com project - a showcase for the RAD development 
platforms, Chicago tech savvy and entrepreneurial spirit.  Friendly 
competition of RubyOnRails, PHP, Python in building agile user 
applications.. (see: 
http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=The24hrDotCom)

2) Discussions on building scalable high-performance next-gen web 
applications (see: 
http://jasonrexilius.com/GloballyDistributedWebCluster.php )

3) Building a Chicago coworking environment (see: 
http://coworking.pbwiki.com/ )

4) Linux install fest and discussions (see: 
http://luni.org/wiki/index.php/Conference )


 The after party will be Sunday night at Rodan on Milwaukee, (see: 
http://www.rodan.ws/default.html )

 We have a few sponsors and many in the community have offered to help 
bring supplies and equipment, but we are still looking for sponsors as 
we have to rent the facility and pay for event insurance.

 We currently have the following companies offering assistance:
Brian Schoen of Real Network Solutions http://www.realnets.com/
Dan Ratner of SitterCity.com http://www.sittercity.com/
Sean Johnson of Intentionally Designed 
http://www.intentionallydesigned.com/

 Also looking for any other discussion ideas or projects!  Check out the 
site, reply to the email, give me a call or just show up!    We are 
short on the Java side by the way..  I know all the java people are 
boring corporate stiffs but..  oh wait, save my language flame warring 
for the event..  Also we are short Perl peoples... where are the rest of 
the hackers?

 At any rate, I am looking forward to seeing you all there and hope 
everyone had a good 4th!

- Jason Rexilius
jason at hostedlabs.com
847.208.1000