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BarCamp Tampa Bay

ryanprice — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:26:17 -0400

Peter of rad-info.net at BarCamp Tampa Bay

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The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk

ryanprice — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:23:48 -0400

A birds-of-a-feather meetup for hacking, MAKErs, TED talks, and having fun with electronics at BarCampTampaBay with Matt:

The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk

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Processing Running on iPhone

ryanprice — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:43:18 -0400

@JohnRife was posting on Twitter today about trying to get Processing running on his iPhone. That one message inspired me to make some posts and get some things going on this group.

Via Create Digital Motion

I didn't think you could run Processing on an iPhone, since it is based on Java, but it looks like John Resig, a true Guru of JavaScript if ever there was one, has come up with a solution to get processing code to run in a web browser without any plugins. I added a bunch of bookmarks about Processing.js to a brand-new Processing group on Ma.gnolia, which is a public feed which anyone can contribute to. New links in that group will appear on the right sidebar of the graphics hackers group page of FloridaCreatives.com. The group itself has 15 registered members... anybody else excited by this?

Via the Processing website:

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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BarCamp Chaos

ryanprice — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:28:38 -0400

Start: 10/13/2008 - 18:00

End: 10/13/2008 - 22:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The best conversations happen in the hallway

On Oct 13, 2008 members of the BarCampOrlando community will be organizing an ad-hoc BarCamp session as a part of the Create Chaos conference. Create Chaos 2008 is a five-day creative industry destination event produced to inform, inspire, educate, and connect creative professionals across industries through an all-inclusive event. This ad-hoc session invites participants to control the programming by preparing a 20 minute talk on any creative topic and presenting it to other conference attendees (so, bring your laptop). The fun starts at 6pm.

BarCamp Chaos is free to attend, of course, and all registered Campers will receive free access to the Create Chaos Expo Hall on Oct 13, 2008. You can use the discount code: BARCAMP to get $200 off your tickets, if you're interested in attending the whole conference.

More about Create Chaos

Create Chaos features several unique industry conferences under one roof, at one time, and takes place Oct 13-17, 2008 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando, FL. Create Chaos serves as a spark to ignite a new renaissance by bringing together creative professionals across industry boundaries including: graphic design, advertising, film and video production, animation, photography, printing, Web, and publishing professionals. Produced by Brahn Awards & Events and partners, the Create Chaos experience features the following conferences and events: The Creative Suite Conference, Printing+Paper+Packaging Design Conference, The Vector Conference, Stash Theatre, CreativeHeads Job Fair, The Web Design Conference, MGFest, The Pixel Conference, and more.

Grab and print (or link to) a BarCamp Chaos 08 Flyer

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BarCamp Tampa Bay

ryanprice — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:00 -0400

Start: 10/11/2008 - 00:30

End: 10/12/2008 - 17:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

BarCamp Tampa 2008 conference will be the first in the Bay area for this unusual technology and new media conference.

Tampa, FL – August 8, 2008 – BarCamp Tampa 2008: the interactive BarCamp conference (http://barcamptampabay.com/) will take place October 11-12, 2008 at the University of South Florida College of Business in Tampa. This is the first year for a BarCamp event in Tampa and will bring together thought leaders from technology and New Media to explore exciting new developments in their fields.

Topics may include, but are not limited to: open source software, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, iphone applications, AJAX, hardware hacking, Ruby, Java, .net, PHP robotics, mobile computing, bioinformatics, RSS, Social Software, video, podcasting, music, blogs, programming languages, Virtual Reality, mashups and the future of technology.

Saturday’s events will start at 8:30 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. and will focus on technology. Saturday evening there will be a party for conference attendees to share and get to know each other a little better. Food and music will be provided. Sunday will start at 10:00 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. and will focus on New Media.

Unlike traditional meetings, a BarCamp, is what is known as an unconference where people interested in a wide range of technologies come together to participate, teach and learn. The format does not have scheduled speakers. Instead, the morning of the BarCamp, everyone proposes the sessions they would like to have covered. Those sessions are put on a schedule and groups form and start an intense session of learning. Everyone who attends a BarCamp is expected to teach and to participate. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

People who attend should be prepared to share with barcampers, and when they leave be prepared to share it with the world.

What is BarCamp?

The BarCamp concept originated when people realized the best times they had at conferences were the times between sessions when people could meet informally and share and learn. The goal of BarCamp is to facilitate this type of informal learning interaction for an entire day. The event organizers provide the food, the space, the wireless, and the audio visual equipment. The attendees bring their laptops, some ideas for session topics and provide the content and the participation.

BarCamp Tampa is sponsored by local business and technology professionals. For more information, visit: http://barcamptampabay.com/

Contact: Peter Radizeski
Phone: 727-369-0741
Email: peter at barcamptampabay.com

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FL Creatives is the Best of Orlando!

ryanprice — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:02:18 -0400

Exciting news: I was informed that Florida Creatives and BarCamp Orlando were named "Best way to staff your social networking startup" by the Orlando Weekly as part of their annual Best of Orlando issue.

Orlando has been cultivating its reputation as a technology center, and there's evidence that it's working. There's a community of people who straddle the line between artist and techie, and you can find a good number of them hanging out with the Florida Creatives Group. They host a happy hour once a month, and they've hosted two "un-conference" BarCamp events where anyone could give a presentation. It's a somewhat nerdy crew, but there's no better place in town to meet that user-interface expert or the Drupal developer that you've been dreaming of.

Mad props to the Orlando Weekly. In fact, this is not the first time Florida Creatives has appeared in their pages. The editorial team there does their best to keep their fingers on the pulse of the community, and this year they've chosen our nerdy slice of Orlando... three cheers!

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create chaos 2008

ryanprice — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:10:34 -0400

Start: 10/13/2008 - 00:00

End: 10/17/2008 - 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Create Chaos 2008. One week. Ten shows. Thousands of creative professionals.

Create Chaos is a concept that speaks to the evolution of our industries — a “create-a-palooza” that will bring together some of the most interesting, educational and inspirational creative industry conferences simultaneously — and all in one location.

Create Chaos 2008 will Inform, Connect, Inspire and Educate creative professionals from multiple industries through an all-inclusive conference event featuring training, seminars, speakers, awards gallery, exhibit arena, career center, film festival and a number of unique, one-of-a-kind experiences. As producers, we are bringing together multiple, existing industry conferences, trade shows and events that are experts in their respective fields under one “super conference” to deliver an experience for our attendees and exhibitors which is second to none.

Based on the Medici principle, by bringing together creative professionals from different industries and walks of life in one place at one time, the resulting collision of ideas, inspiration and general creative experience far surpasses any conference-going experience these professionals could receive by attending these industry specific events separately.

The Create Chaos experience brings together creative professionals from around the world to connect, share ideas, exchange information and be educated on the latest in training, trends and technology.

The conference also acts as a recession buster by co-locating the conferences and reducing travel and registration costs for attendees and participations.

Also, if you had a particular speaker in mind, please see http://www.createchaos.com/08/public/speakers/speakers for details on how to submit a speaker recommendation. Thanks!

info@createchaos.com
http://www.createchaos.com

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FL Creatives 16: Women of BarCampOrlando

ryanprice — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:11:00 -0400

Download Show 16
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Length: 14:00

Tisse, Katrina Priore, Dana Delapi and Becky Lane talk to Ryan Price during BarCamp Orlando 2008.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

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Florida Creatives Secret Handshake

ryanprice — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:05:00 -0400

Today at BarCamp I suggested we create a "secret" handshake for Florida Creatives members or people who are involved in the local community.

Here are some suggestions: hugs, peace sign, hang loose, three-fingered wave, etc.

What would you use as the Florida Creatives secret handshake? Record something and post it in the comments!

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FL Creatives 15: FreshBooks and ScrapBlog at BarCampOrlando

ryanprice — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:00:00 -0400

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Length: 9:19

Sunir Shah and Alex DeCarvalho talk to Ryan Price at BarCampOrlando Dev Day about FreshBooks and ScrapBlog, where each of them are the "Community Guy". We also talk about BarCamp and the aesthetic there vs. a regular conference.

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BarCampOrlando Downtown April 5th and 6th, 10AM - 6PM

ryanprice — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:35:00 -0400

BarCamp Orlando is a weekend for all types of creative folks to come together and share with each other. The event is dubbed an "unconference", a format which derives power from the people instead of the event organizers or the presenters. Everyone has an equal opportunity to get on stage and speak, teach or lead a discussion, playing off of the idea that at any given conference, the people in the audience have more knowledge collectively than the presenter(s) on stage.

This second installment of BarCamp will be held over 2 days, Saturday and Sunday, April 5th and 6th, in downtown Orlando at the Wall Street complex, from 10AM - 6PM each day. Registration is free, and a registration promises a shirt and lunch on the sponsors of BarCamp, businesses who are passionate about the technology and media communities of Central Florida.

Saturday is the designated "Dev Day", playing host to everything from web programming to robot building and video game development and everything in between. iPhone hackers, guys with soldering irons, the latest technologies, and plenty that haven't been realized yet. Every 30 minutes, both venues will have a different talk going on, so if you're feeling lost in the jargon, apply the "rule of 2 feet" and check out what's happening in the other room!

Sunday is dubbed "Media Day", and is the place for storytellers, journalists, writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, 2D and 3D artists, podcasters, bloggers and social networkers to show off their work, share their tricks or talk about the state of the industry. From 12 to 1 we will be talking about the "Past, Present and Future of Media in Central Florida", hoping to give our community a sense of our story, and where we're headed.

Registration is free, and the event runs from 10AM - 6PM both days with a lunch break at 1PM. The event will be housed in Slingapour's and One-Eyed-Jack's, with Wall St Cantina acting as our "hallway". There will be projectors and microphones, chairs and a space to speak. All you have to do is write your name on the whiteboard and you get 20-25 minutes to share your passions with a group of energetic, engaged geeks and creatives. I would not use the words "captive audience" to describe the BarCamp crowd, because they all want to get involved.

Visit www.barcamporlando.org today and register for Dev Day, Media Day or both days. Wall Street Plaza is at 18 Wall Street Plaza, Orlando, FL 32801 - barcamporlando.org/where has a map to the venue and information about parking.

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The Little BarCamp That Could

ryanprice — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:31:00 -0500

From the BarCamp Orlando web site.

Thanks to Gregg and Jason and everyone else who helped put this video and this conference together. If I've worked the emails properly, I'll be organizing and promoting the famed "media day", and hosting another photowalk through College Park (or wherever BarCamp April happens).

P.S. Mark Krupinski has an opening for .NET Developers - if you or someone you know is looking for work, check it out.

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Beautiful, BarCamp

ryanprice — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:13:00 -0400

Fantastic job everyone. Discussion leaders, photographers, participants (could have been more participating, honestly) and especially organizers. Orlando is putting itself on the map with events like this, and will only continue to gain the eyes of the world.

I can't wait for BlogOrlando on Friday. That's right, it wasn't last week. I heard that a few times where people thought BarCamp was the Sunday of BlogOrlando instead of the Sunday before.

One comment I've heard quite a bit on the Florida Creatives front was "I always forget when the event is happening, can you send out a reminder the day before?"

My answer will always be to check out the events on Upcoming. All you need is a Yahoo! ID and a cell phone/email and they will send you text and email reminders 24 hours in advance. The events for October are in the right sidebar now.

If you want me to send emails one week before and one day before/day of, I can do that. The events are on Facebook, MySpace, Virb, Upcoming, Google Groups and this website. If anyone wants to be a delegated poster of events, I will hand over passwords gladly. Also, I'd really like to get weekly blog posts going here at FloridaCreatives.com - like BarCamp year-round. If you're interested, just let me know.

Here are some pictures from BarCamp. I have a few more to upload, but over 200 are already here. Check it out:
Flickr: The BarCamp Orlando Pool

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Don't think about exporting the culture of Silicon Valley

ryanprice — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:03:00 -0400

Chris Messina is one of the thought leaders behind some of the concepts we here at Florida Creatives subscribe to: Coworking and BarCamp are the big ones. He made a great post today that seemed to be writing itself in my head as I was reading it. The short version is this: We don't want to be like San Francisco. It's true. My idea is that we want to be a better Orlando, or Tampa, or South Florida. See what Chris has to say about it here, but please visit his blog and read the rest of the post.

From FactoryCity » On exporting the culture of Silicon Valley

people don’t have to be alone in their progressive thinking, the question seems to quickly become: “So what happens next? How do we create our own Silicon Valley here?”

Well, I’m here to tell you that the next thought should be, “Oh wait, what we want isn’t to become another Silicon Valley with all their disfunctions and navel-gazing — what we really want is a community that is self-sustaining and a culture of sharing, opportunity and hope…!” Of course, that’s a harder proposition and reality to accept and to create, but if you really want a slice of the Bay, you might as well take the one that’s not just covered with whipped cream.

Where I’ve seen this work, people are collaborating, are open, are sharing, are working together and building something that is defined from within, rather than from without. It’s not about imitating what you think we have out here; it’s about creating and instituting an attitude and mentality that shares the same philosophical underpinnings that allow us to define success for ourselves and then go about achieving it, however we best can.

I doubt I could have said it better myself. At this point, we've all heard the arguments that "our scene isn't supportive" or "the audiences are lazy" or "I can't find anyone to share this thought with me". The argument against all of those points is "figure out how to inspire support", "ask more people", "try it out sooner, fail sooner, learn how to be better sooner". Set some goals and a system to measure success, and don't think of yourself as failing until you've really taken stock of what you're trying to accomplish.

The next 3 weeks are going to see a huge upheaval for the internal and external image of Orlando and Florida in the eyes of the world. Don't believe me? Then you won't be seeing the same change I know is coming until it's already passed you by. All the ingredients are here. All the creatives, audience members, investors, consultants and catalysts are in the petri dish, now all we have to do is raise the temperature.

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BarCamp in Orlando Sentinel

ryanprice — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:34:00 -0400

Someone sent me an email this morning saying that OrlandoSentinel.com was running a story on the upcoming BarCamp on Sept 23rd at Taste. The article is "A gathering of the geeks", and it sports a picture of a few people's hands and Jason Siefer's head (and one unidentified programmer, but I think he's an ORUG guy too).

Here's the most quotable part of the article by Wes Smith:

Like Fight Club, everyone who comes to BarCamp has to get in the ring and mix it up. All who attend must prepare a presentation to deliver either at the event or later by blogging, podcasting, or producing a Web-video of the event.

There will be zero tolerance for self-promotion or overt job-hunting. This event is about sharing knowledge and inspiring creativity, organizers say.

A quote from David Sikes on the BarCampOrlando discussion list:

They just analogized barcamp and fight club.

1st RULE: You do talk about barcamp.
2nd RULE: You DO talk about barcamp.
3rd RULE: If an admin says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the demo is over.
4th RULE: Only two hundred guys to a barcamp. (You see what I did there?)
5th RULE: One barcamp at a time.
6th RULE: No shirts, no shoes, you're a hippie.
7th RULE: Presentations will go on as long as they have to. Provided
it's under 30 minutes.
8th RULE: If this is your first night at barcamp, you HAVE to demo.

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Acte de Naissance - "le Créateur"

ryanprice — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:18:00 -0400

That means (I think) Birth Certificate - "The Creators". Larry Diehl just wrote a post over at the BarCampOrlando blog called "Orlando's Web Renaissance", but Renaissance really means "rebirth". I don't think the world has ever issued us with a creative birth certificate in the first place. I will agree that we're participating in a rebirth of culture, and enabling technologies have quite a bit to do with that, but enablers are nothing without the people to enable.

I think one thing that was missing from Larry's post (and I'm not sure how he could have done this, I'm just trying to illustrate a point) is the knowledge (or faith) of what will be happening at BarCamp and these other upcoming events.

We get mentioned just after he lists all of the discipline-specific groups, and then a bit later on he gives a nice plug to the new FloridaCreatives Wiki. By the way, if you haven't added anything yet, shame on you! If you feel left out, please don't, because when I first populated the list I didn't really know what it was going to look like a few hours later, and I'm still not sure I have it right yet... getting it right will take lots of input from everyone who cares about improving or bringing together the community.

It's very interesting to think that the day I created the wiki was just days past 9 months since our first Florida Creatives Happy Hour. Instead of waiting for someone to authorize our birth certificate, we're taking matters into our own hands.

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