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BarCampMadison: Time Lapse Video

Time Lapse Bot was at BarCampMadison on August 28, 2010 and had a blast! He took over 2,700 pictures and then compiled this video for us to watch. You missed the event? See it happen in less than three minutes by watching the video.

This video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The music titled “Freedom (Techno Plano Mix) ” is from Gurdonark via ccMixter and has a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License. You can also find this video at Vimeo and blip.tv or download the original QuickTime file or find an Ogg file at Archive.org… Enjoy!

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BarCampMadison: My Vegan Girlfriend

While waiting for BarCampMadison3 to start we captured this conversation between myself and my vegan girlfriend. We had quite the talk about the farmer’s market, vitamins, religion, Morrissey, and of course, Veganism.

OK, this is actually a conversation between myself and Vegan Soundboard, an iPhone app that was being controlled by Matt Gauger. We recorded it on the Zoom H2 Handy Portable Stereo Recorder.

I ended up using Convo Droid to record a number of sessions at BarCampMadison3, but I figured I’d get this out first, as it was actually recorded before the official start of the event. Also, it’s funny.

Vegan Soundboard

You’ll probably love this so much you’ll want to download an MP3. (And for our freedom loving friends, enjoy an Ogg file.)

Also, if you want to get all of the audio automagically downloaded podcasting style, subscribe to the feed. I’ll add in the BarCamp sessions as I get them edited and published.

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BarCampMadison People

BarCampMadison3 will take place Saturday, August 28, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM. As of this post, barcampmadison.eventbrite.com show everyone who has registered for BarCampMadison.

BarCampMadison

I wasn’t sure how long the Eventbrite data would be around (does it disappear after the event?) but since it’s publicly accessible, I figured I’d post it here as well. Feel free to check out the web sites or Twitter streams of people who plan to attend BarCampMadison.

  1. Mitch Altman
    Website: http://www.CornfieldElectronics.com
    Twitter: @maltman23
  2. Mark Anderson
    Website: http://www.markdavidanderson.com
    Twitter: @doodlehaus
  3. Lena Arvola
    Website: http://www.ontask.net/
    Twitter: @ontask
  4. Sam Baskinger
    Twitter: @basking2
  5. Peter Beckett
    Website: http://petebeckett.com
    Twitter: @ptrbeckett
  6. Brian Beermann
    Website: http://www.uwcu.org
    Twitter: @powdernine
  7. Lee Berg
    Website: http://LeeAlanBerg.com
    Twitter: @LeeAlanBerg
  8. Michael Blix
    Website: http://mkeblx.net
  9. Bryan Chan
    Website: http://www.renewableinternet.com
  10. Scott Christensen
    Twitter: @smchristensen
  11. matthew clark
  12. Levi Cook
    Website: http://github.com/levicook
    Twitter: @levicook
  13. Philip Crawford
    Website: http://lesspostmoreget.com
    Twitter: @wiscoDude
  14. Lucas Dailey
    Website: http://www.logicalconsensus.com
    Twitter: @lucasdailey
  15. Elisa Derickson
    Website: http://www.elisaderickson.com
    Twitter: @elisa_madison
  16. TJ Dooley
    Twitter: @tjdooley
  17. David Douthitt
    Website: http://administratosphere.wordpress.com
    Twitter: @ddouthitt
  18. Ashe Dryden
    Website: http://Ashedryden.com
    Twitter: @Ashedryden
  19. Nivas Durairaj
  20. Jacob Ela
  21. Matt Everson
    Website: http://astuteo.com
    Twitter: @astuteo
  22. Steven Faulkner
    Website: http://www.southpolesteve.com
    Twitter: @southpolesteve
  23. Patrick Fleury
  24. Scott Fradkin
    Twitter: @sfradkin
  25. Anthony Frey
  26. Josh Gachnang
    Website: http://servercobra.com
    Twitter: @eclectic_pc
  27. Matt Gauger
    Website: http://blog.mattgauger.com
    Twitter: @mathiasx
  28. carol gruba
    Website: http://www.greenheronresources.com
    Twitter: @bookluvn
  29. Bradley Grzesiak
    Website: http://bendyworks.com
    Twitter: @listrophy
  30. blake hall
    Website: http://blakehall.org
    Twitter: @blakehall
  31. Caden Howell
    Website: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/
  32. Karsten Huttelmaier
    Twitter: @kphutt
  33. Jim Jarrett
    Website: http://www.alliantenergy.com
    Twitter: @jrjarrett
  34. Nick Karpenske
    Website: http://bendyworks.com
    Twitter: @randland
  35. Adiatou Kassim
    Website: http://facebook.com/kassimad
  36. Sean Kelley
    Website: http://seanpkelley.com
    Twitter: @seanpkelley
  37. Chad Kittel
    Website: @ckittel
  38. Veezus Kreist
    Website: http://veez.us
    Twitter: @veezus
  39. Stephanie Larsons
  40. Nathan Lustig
    Website: http://www.entrustet.com
    Twitter: @nathanlustig
  41. Nathaniel Meierpolys
    Website: http://www.thanscorner.info
    Twitter: @nmeierpolys
  42. Christopher Morris
    Website: http://cunaverse.com
  43. Louie Penaflor
    Website: http://mystyleapp.com
  44. Pete Prodoehl
    Website: http://rasterweb.net/raster/
    Twitter: @raster
  45. Steve Pulec
    Website: http://stevepulec.com
  46. Brian Purtell
    Website: http://dewittross.com
    Twitter: @brpurtell
  47. Jimmie Rodgers
  48. Website: http://www.jimmieprodgers.com
    Twitter: @jprodgers
  49. Eduardo Sampedro
    Website: http://www.eduardo.net
  50. Jared Schaber
  51. Natalie Schaefer
    Website: http://www.madisoncoworking.com
  52. Mike Seeley
  53. Joseph Shaul
  54. Andrew Shell
    Website: http://blog.andrewshell.org/
    Twitter: @andrewshell
  55. Greg Tarnoff
    Website: http://tarnoff.info
    Twitter: @gregtarnoff
  56. Greg Tracy
    Website: http://gregtracy.com
    Twitter: @gregtracy
    Eric Veenendaal
    Twitter: @ericveenendaal
  57. Dan Voell
    Website: http://www.gobuzz.com
    Twitter: @danvoell
  58. Ryan Wachtl
    Website: http://ryanwachtl.com
    Twitter: @ryanwachtl
  59. Tony Walla
    Twitter: @tonywalla
  60. Devin Walters
    Website: http://devinwalters.com/
    Twitter: @devn
  61. Jenna Weber
    Website: http://startpointmarketing.com
  62. Adam Witt
    Website: http://wittlawoffices.com
    Twitter: @atwitt
  63. Jonathan Yankovich
    Website: http://madisoncoworking.com
    Twitter: @tronathan
  64. Matthew Younkle
  65. Evan Zeimet
    Twitter: @podnov

And of course, you can follow @barcampmadison on Twitter as well…

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BarCampMadison Wrap-up #2

At BarCampMadison there were too many good sessions. Too many! It was often hard to choose what to take part in. I suppose that’s a good thing…?

Blake Hall‘s session Drupal – Intro, Development, Bootstrap your site seemed way to short. Drupal is quite a system, and he expressed concern about what and how much to cover in just an hour. More Drupal! As I’ve mentioned, I’m interested in getting together a group of Drupal folks sometime this year, maybe as a DrupalCamp, in the Milwaukee(ish?) area. Depending on how many people we’d have, I think I may already have a space for it. (Of course we could use a sponsor or two!)

Christian Wilcox‘s session Repurposing web data was another good one that could have gone longer. This could have expanded into a couple hours of working on code after the session. Of course, there was so much to do at BarCamp, it would have meant missing out on other things. :(

Again, perhaps holding some sort of mashpit fully separate from BarCamp may solve the problem of people wanting to flex their code muscles and expand on the ideas they have.

As usual, BarCamp’s help get the creative thoughts rolling, now it’s just a matter of applying them.


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We Must Adapt

Just a note for any one toting around an Apple laptop, be it an old iBook or a new MacBook: Get a video adapter!

More than a few times in the last year I’ve seen someone show up with an Apple laptop, and then look at the VGA connector on a projector, and have an “oh shit” moment where they realize things won’t plug into other things.

Even before my (pre-owned) iBook arrived, I had tracked down the needed VGA and s-video/composite video adapters on ebay. (I got both for under $20.)

I tend to carry my adapters around with me, and even offered one up at BarCampMadison to someone. Of course Apple in it’s infinite wisdom likes to change things each year, so my adapter didn’t work. (I ended up just letting the presenter use my iBook, though I warned him if it wasn’t interesting, I’d take my iBook and leave.)

For the modern folks, it looks like the Mini-DVI to VGA Adapter is pretty cheap, around $20. That should work for the MacBook and 12-inch PowerBook G4. If you have some other model, track down what adapter is used and order it today so you’re ready for the next user group meeting or BarCamp presentation.