<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">BARcamp Chicago 2008 is coming up tomorrow! The weekend <br>of Aug 15th at 1240 W. Harrison St (UIC area). <br><br> It's being held at the Innovation Center at UIC which is this cool new <br>space for tech commercialization projects. I posted a couple of <br>snapshots on the wiki:<br><br><a href="http://barcampchicago.com/WherePage">http://barcampchicago.com/WherePage</a><br><br> Sean Johnson is working on the Food and I know its going to be <br>impossible, but we'd like to try and estimate the amount. Can people <br>either reply to me or add their name to the wiki?<br><br><a href="http://barcampchicago.com/AttendeeList">http://barcampchicago.com/AttendeeList</a><br>-or-<br><a href="mailto:barcamp-subscribe@corp.hostedlabs.com">barcamp-subscribe@corp.hostedlabs.com</a><br><br> One of the really cool events happening at BARcamp this year is an <br>Erlang workshop being given by Martin Logan and Erlang User group team. <br> If you dont know about Erlang, its a very cool Functional language <br>thats good for distributed computing. Martin and others at Orbitz are <br>putting some Erlang code into production and they have an open source <br>project that they are putting out I believe.<br><br> As with every year, we have lots of cool talks lined up and I expect <br>a lot more to develop over the weekend. The Chicago LUG is donating a <br>keg, like the previous years and the organizers have been working like <br>crazy. Its coming together despite my being a disorganized slacker ;-)<br><br> CALL FOR HELP:<br><br>1) RSVP in some form or fashion, (call me, email, join the list, add to <br>wiki). Need to size catering.<br><br>2) Get your company to participate, sposnor, bring schwag, give a talk <br>about technology you are using or building.<br><br>3) Give a talk.<br><br>4) Spread the word.<br><br><br>Also note:<br><br>Social Dev Camp is coming up this weekend, at IIT. Check it out: <br><a href="http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialDevCampChicago">http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/SocialDevCampChicago</a><br><br><br>Thats it for now. Looking forward to seeing you all next weekend!<br><br>-jason<br><a href="mailto:jason@hostedlabs.com">jason@hostedlabs.com</a><br>847.208.1000<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>BARcamp Chicago mailing list<br><a href="http://barcampchicago.com/">http://barcampchicago.com/</a><br></body></html>