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BarCampMilwaukee: Success!

Well, we did it… we pulled it off… BarCampMilwaukee was a huge success! I’d like to personally thank every person who was involved in making it happen.

How do I define huge success? We only had a few minor injuries, everyone there seemed to be having a good time, people learned new things, they shared their passions, and made new friends. All good…

As I get some time between doing follow-up stuff, and editing video, I’ll try to write up some more detailed posts about the different sessions and topics I was involved with. Hopefully others will do the same.

I already thanked most of the sponsors (see BarCampMilwaukee Part IX) but should add a thanks to 800 CEO Read for providing breakfast on Sunday, and O’Reilly for sending us some books for the participants and the Bucketworks library…

We’ve come a long way since the first post about BarCampMilwaukee on July 5th, 2006.

We should also extend a special thanks to Jeramey Jannene who was involved in the planning from early on but had to miss BarCampMilwaukee due to a family emergency… We missed you Jeramey!

(I would have had this post up sooner, but Mike called me to ask me why I didn’t write a post yet… Here it is Mike!)


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BarCampMilwaukee so far…

I’m at BarCampMilwaukee, and I’m tired…

There has been a ton of great sessions so far, and we’re still going strong. So far I’ve talked about gadgets, and Drupal, and RSS, and logos, and saw a crazy robot, and rode on a remote controlled robot go cart, and saw a tiny helicopter, and rode an electric bike, and ate some pizza and whoooo!

Did I mention I’m tired? Still, we’re doing the Mini-Mash Pit right now, and if something cool comes out of it, we’ll let you know…

(Here’s the folks sitting in right now: Victor Nwankwo, Blake Hall, Kevin Ciesielaski, Christian Wilcox, Scott Reynen, Mike McCallister and Justin Lowry…)

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The New Admirals Logo

I’ve been hearing people’s opinions on the new Milwaukee Admirals logo since it came out. My opinion, it looks like it’s meant to appeal to kids, and in doing so, does not appeal to adults. So I thought I should fix that.

Milwaukee Admiral's Logo

Here is the original version.

Milwaukee Admiral's Logo (fixed!)

Here is my version.

Ok, five minutes in Photoshop might not cut it, but you get the idea. It’s all in the eyes. In the first version the eyes just make it all look too cartoony. Skulls aren’t all happy and shiny, they are mean and scary. Or at least they should be.

(I wonder if I can find work doing logo re-design…)

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BarCampMilwaukee Part IX

BarCampMilwaukee is in 3 days… No, really… That’s what Upcoming tells me. It also says there is a Pre-BarCampMilwaukee Dinner, and that during BarCampMilwaukee there will be a Mini-Mash Pit (which may consist of only me at this point!)

Since we last reviewed things we’ve gone up to almost 90 campers and gotten a lot more sponsorship. Right now we’ve got commitments from: C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions, MailLaunder.com, Digital Bootcamp, Inc., CA, MakaluMedia Group, MIT Club of Wisconsin, Microsoft, Z2 Marketing + Design, Rochambo Coffee & Tea House, and Time Warner Cable. These are the organizations who will help make BarCampMilwaukee rock!

There are also a ton of session ideas some which you might expect (Drupal, Microformats, Ruby on Rails) and some which sound just crazy (Remote Controlled Go Carts; if you’re not in control, you’re out of control, Democracy in Ancient Athens: Organization and Technology, Thermonuclear Fusion; a possible reactor design). Hmmm, I guess all the crazy ones have long titles.


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Name/Tags

One idea I got from a previous BarCamp was name/tags… Which is like your old fashioned “Hello, my name is” badge, but with room to write in some “Web 2.0” style tags…

BarCampMilwaukee Name/Tags

For BarCampMilwaukee, our hosts at Bucketworks also plans on providing a crazy/creative “Make your own badge” table with various art supplies for those looking for a bit more expressiveness in their name tags…