BARcamp Chicago this weekend

I'm one of the organizers for...

What? BARcamp Chicago
Web? http://barcampchicago.com
When? 12:00 noon Saturday June 23 - 20:00 (8:00pm) Sunday June 24
Where? 1464 N Milwaukee, Chicago (Wicker Park) (http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=WherePage)
Who? You and an expected 200 others (http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=AttendeeList)
Why? http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=WhyPage

Amongst our topics are such elements as:

• Advanced Photography On Linux
• Mass Customization: The Next Revolution in Software is Hardware (Ziad Hussain)
• Old Technology: Not a formal talk, but a discussion of all things Low Tech, from steam engines to dripping water clocks. I just want to see how many other people are fascinated by this. Look for the guy with the Ballista. (TimSaylor)
• Kirix: Strata Code Sprint -- building dynamic web mash-ups with RSS and a data browser (Aaron Williams)
• Cleversafe, Inc.: Global Data Dispersal (John Quigley)
• Chicago Linux: Brewing Beer at Home (Tristan Sloughter)
• Chicago Lisp: Anatomy of Lisp (John Quigley)
• Developing cross-platform applications using wxWidgets (Dave Williams)
• Ruby on rails deep dive (ActiveRecord internals) (Mike Mangino)
• Rich applications with Groovy and Swing (James Williams)
• A.I.: Learning coding libraries through operator learning and representation. Practical methods of extending complex systems (FRDCSA).
• Getting started in bug work in F/OSS software projects. (Freddy Martinez)
• Mobile Web 2.0 ideas and brainstorming session
• Mobile Web 2.0 MobHackaThon (go live by the end of the day)
• Entrepreneur's Circle Of Progress - what are you getting done?
• Web App Security analytics for session management - Jason Rexilius
• Foresight Linux, don't you want your desktop to be cool and intro to Conary packaging Ken VanDine
• Domainer's Swap Meet. Buy/sell/trade with other domainers. One man's trash is another man's $100/day AdSense play. Michael Carruth
• Conary packaging and a demo of a MythTV Appliance Ken VanDine
• Chicago Gnome User Group Meeting
• Jason Jacobsohn - Discussion of Business Resources for Entrepreneurs: Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, 12A Investment Fund, and The Big Idea Forum
• Humanized - Tales from developing Enso
• Gizmometer: Keeping Tabs On Your System When You've Got Other Things To Do (Conrad Albrecht Buehler)

And that's just the planned stuff. Lots of unplanned stuff is also planned.