<div style="direction: ltr;">Thought some of you may be interested:<br><br><br><br>BARcamp Chicago (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://barcampchicago.com/" target="_blank"> http://barcampchicago.com/
</a> ) is on for 15-16 July at 648 w Randolph.<br><br> BARcamp is looking to be a good weekend and will be a combined event<br>with the Chicago Linux Users Group meeting. There are close to 70<br>people expected for BARcamp plus the Linux User community.. So far the
<br>agenda looks to have the following in the mix:<br><br>1) 48 hour dot com project - a showcase for the RAD development<br>platforms, Chicago tech savvy and entrepreneurial spirit. Friendly<br>competition of RubyOnRails, PHP, Python in building agile user
<br>applications.. (see:<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=The24hrDotCom" target="_blank">http://barcampchicago.com/index.php?wiki=The24hrDotCom</a>
)<br><br>2) Discussions on building scalable high-performance next-gen web<br>applications (see:<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://jasonrexilius.com/GloballyDistributedWebCluster.php" target="_blank">
http://jasonrexilius.com/GloballyDistributedWebCluster.php</a> )<br><br>3) Building a Chicago coworking environment (see:<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://coworking.pbwiki.com/" target="_blank">
http://coworking.pbwiki.com/</a> )<br><br>4) Linux install fest and discussions (see:<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://luni.org/wiki/index.php/Conference" target="_blank">http://luni.org/wiki/index.php/Conference
</a> )<br><br><br> The after party will be Sunday night at Rodan on Milwaukee, (see:<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.rodan.ws/default.html" target="_blank">http://www.rodan.ws/default.html
</a> )<br><br> We have a few sponsors and many in the community have offered to help<br>bring supplies and equipment, but we are still looking for sponsors as<br>we have to rent the facility and pay for event insurance.<br>
<br> We currently have the following companies offering assistance:<br>Brian Schoen of Real Network Solutions <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.realnets.com/" target="_blank">http://www.realnets.com/
</a><br>Dan Ratner of SitterCity.com <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.sittercity.com/" target="_blank">http://www.sittercity.com/</a><br>Sean Johnson of Intentionally Designed<br>
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.intentionallydesigned.com/" target="_blank">http://www.intentionallydesigned.com/</a><br><br> Also looking for any other discussion ideas or projects! Check out the
<br>site, reply to the email, give me a call or just show up! We are<br>short on the Java side by the way.. I know all the java people are<br>boring corporate stiffs but.. oh wait, save my language flame warring<br>for the event.. Also we are short Perl peoples... where are the rest of
<br>the hackers?<br><br> At any rate, I am looking forward to seeing you all there and hope<br>everyone had a good 4th!<br></div><span class="sg"><br>- Jason Rexilius<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:jason@hostedlabs.com">
jason@hostedlabs.com</a></span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://AnythingButPHP.blogspot.com">http://AnythingButPHP.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://CodeSnipers.com">http://CodeSnipers.com</a>