FirstMissoulaBarCampNotes

From Missoula Bar Camp

The first MissoulaBar Camp was held at the MAEDC facilities in MonTech on April 26, 2008. It was called Missoula BarCamp 2008 in the press, though it looks like we will have a second BarCamp in 2008. There were 19 attendees from Missoula, Stevensville, and Helena. They represented a number of different companies, such as ModWest, Business Objects an SAP Company, Democracy In Action, Global Warming Solutions, MCAT, and more. These were primarily from the IT and Non-profit sector.

Session Notes

Here are the session notes for the different sessions for the Missoula BarCamp held at MonTECH, April 26, 2008.

1:45 in area A: Joomla Hacking (Harold)
1:45 in area B: Website Makeover Day for Non-profits (Cole)
1:45 in area C: MetaVid / OpenGov, Vorbis/Theora, Open AV Streaming (Seth)

2:30 in area A: Transitioning to the Linux Desktop (Cole)
2:30 in area B: Grupthink, Past, Present & Future (Steven/John)
2:30 in area C: Unit Testing - TDD/BDD, Mocks (Tim)

3:15 in area A: Building a social networking application in Rails from scratch (Jon)
3:15 in area B: Technology as a Tool for Social Change (Cole)/Finding Allies Through the Web (David M)

4:00 in area B: Missoula as Tech Mecca/Tech-Art-Nonprofit Synergy