September 25, 2010
We’ve got Swag Mail! Thanks @oreillymedia!
Jun 13th
We got some more swag prizes in the mail today! Today’s swag mail is brought to you by the super cool O’Reilly Media. They sent over a handful of some of their best selling books. for a chance to win any of these books, register today for BarCamp Jonesboro!*
*You must be present at time of drawing to be eligible for all BarCamp Jonesboro prizes. All drawings will occur on Septemeber 25, 2010.
Call for Presentations!
Mar 21st
Barcamp Jonesboro’s call for presentations is now open! We’re looking for presenters on technology topics like Mobile Application Development, Social Media, New Media Production, Marketing, Web Development and anything else that would be of interest to the local tech community.
BarCamp Jonesboro is designed as an “un-conference” where people pencil in their presentation ideas in the morning, vote for the best sounding presentations, and then go watch/give 30-45 minute presentations about a tech topic. Since this is our first BarCamp in Jonesboro, it will help attendees if we post known topics and presenters in advance.
If you’d like to give a presentation at BarCamp please send in your information and blurb of topic so we can let everyone know. You can submit your information here.
If you’d like to present, but your are still looking for topics maybe these suggestions will help you.
How to use my iPhone more effectively: Apps for Social Networking; Twitter Apps; Photo Sharing etc.
- RSS Feed and Social Media
- How to convert a web site in a mobile site
- How to use Google Maps dynamically with your data
- Digital Video Streaming Live
More ideas and information here!
BarCamp Jonesboro App
Mar 15th
While we’re all waiting for BarCamp day to get here there’s still lots of stuff going on behind-the-scenes to make it all possible. Sending sponsorship requests, organizing swag mail, contacting vendors, designing and distributing marketing, and tons more. Our volunteer staff is working constantly to make sure BarCamp Jonesboro is all we want it to be.
One of the many things we are working on is the designing/developing of a custom mobile app for the event day which can be used by both iPhone and Android users. Using the amazing mobile development platform (and one of our sponsors!), Titanium by Appcelerator, we are able to design a single app which will work on both iPhone and Android platforms.
Once released to the public, the BarCamp Jonesboro app will allow you to keep up with what is going on leading up to event day and on the day of the event you’ll have a host of features available to you. Here’s a preview of those:
Agenda/Schedule – View the schedule for the day as it is decided. Since the agenda for the event is crowd-sourced, most of the presentations will be decided upon while we are there. To aid you in deciding which presentation to run to next, all of the details will be available in the palm of your hand.
Sponsors – Without our sponsors, this event would be much less cool and hosted in a 700 sq.ft. room. So, we wanted to not only give them their very own tab in the app, but also allow the BarCampers who would like to thank some of the sponsors to do so via a tweet from right inside the app. We’ll pre-fill the important info and you add your own thank you message.
Tweets – Via the built-in twitter tab, you can monitor live tweets using our #BCJonesboro hastag, as well as add tweets to the stream from your own account.
Photos – In addition to viewing the live twitter stream, you can also use this tab to view a stream of photos from your fellow campers and take/upload your own photos. Wondering what is going on in the other rooms? Check out the photo tab and find out.
Maps – As you can see in the screenshot above, campers will have access to driving directions, a map of the ASU campus, and maps of the first and second floor of the main building for BarCamp Jonesboro.
There you have it. Pretty cool, eh? Well, we’ve got to get back to work on this app, so stay tuned to this site for the announcement of the app launching it the mobile marketplaces! Have you registered yet?!
New Sponsor: DreamHost
Mar 9th
We’re proud to announce our newest platinum level sponsor, DreamHost! Most of the BarCamp Jonesboro organizers are DreamHost customers, so it is an honor to have them involved in our event at this level.
You simply cannot beat the level of service and support we’ve received at DreamHost for years now. This site, as well as all of our other community projects, are hosted on DreamHost’s top-notch servers (with cool names to boot!). If you haven’t checked them out, be sure to stop by their site & follow them on Twitter.
THANK YOU DREAMHOST!
