Tag: barcampmadison

Yeah, that’s fishing, not phishing! I thought I had seem some odd BarCamp sessions before, but at BarCampMadison, someone has one titled Fishing (NOT PHISHING): A Geeks Hobby. Hey, this is Wisconsin after all…

Here’s a brief description:

71% of the earths surface is water and in that water there are fish for that catching. My goal with this session is to introduce some of my fellow geeks to hobby I find extremely enjoyable, that gets me outdoors, and doesn’t lack for technology.

Honestly, that doesn’t sound like your typical BarCamp session…

(Oh, on a somewhat related/unrelated note, a big thanks should go out to Chad Dickerson of Yahoo! for helping out with the sponsoring of BarCampMadison.)

Ok, with less than two weeks to go before BarCampMadison, I think we’re really on a roll.

As of my posting this, we’ve got 99 people signed up (I’m sure this will break 100 shortly) and 39 sessions planned.

Some of the interesting topics: Drupal – Intro, Development, Bootstrap your site; How To Burn Your Business Into The Ground – Lessons in Entrepreneurship; How to get Angel and VC funding for my new venture?; Cyberpunk Philosophy.

It’s not all heavy lifting, there are also things like: Nintendo DS Meetup, a possible LAN party, and (if all goes well) Wii Fight Midwest!

If you haven’t signed up for BarCampMadison yet, do so now!

I worked up a flyer for BarCampMadison….

It is my belief that every BarCamp should have robots…

We are still looking for a few sponsors for BarCampMadison…

If you can help, please check out the Sponsorship Opportunities page and get in touch with us…

BarCampMilwaukee probably got the majority of the sponsors signed up in the last few weeks before the event, so the time is right now for BarCampMadison, which is set for March 3rd & 4th, 2007 – just under a month away.

(So far we’ve got 70 people signed up, and I expect that to break 100 before the end of February.)