Hey designers, nerds, fashionistas and friends, we’re looking to create another awesome BarCamp Philly T-shirt this year, but we want YOUR input.  If you’re interested in taking a stab at this year’s design, please pull together some of your best ideas by Monday August 24th!  Please email your submissions to barcampphillyATgmailDOTcom.

Things to consider:

• We are looking for a logo that we can incorporate into our website and branding materials. You can start from the official BarCamp design files or go off in a completely different direction!
• We will be including the names of our sponsors on the back of the T-shirt. Have an interesting idea on how to display their names?
• How will your logo work as an avatar (for Twitter, etc)?
• If you’re a T-shirt person but not a logo person, partner up with a friend!
• MAKE IT PHILLY!

This year is a juried competition, but we will try to find a way to share all of the submissions with the community.  THANK YOU to everyone for spreading the word! We’re looking forward to the awesomeness that’s about to come our way and back out to all of you!

Remember, submissions are due by Monday August 24th and sent to barcampphillyATgmailDOTcom!

P.S. Until we lock down the new design direction, we’re hanging out in our 2008 space. Stay tuned for a fully updated 2009 BarCamp Philly 2 website by the end of the summer!

Get ready, BarCamp Philly 2 is happening again on Saturday November 14, 2009 at The University of the Arts! Please stay tuned for tons more information and ways to get involved.

For now, please plug back in through any or all of the choices below!

BarCamp Philly on Facebook

BarCamp Philly Google Group

@barcampphilly on Twitter

There’s a new BarCamp in town, BarCamp NewsInnovation Philadelphia!

Organized by Sean Blanda, Jared Silfies and Brian James Kirk, BarCamp NewsInnovation will take place on Saturday April 25th at Temple University’s School of Journalism. It’s a ways off, but please register today so you can help these guys plan!

There are lots of ways to stay in the loop on BarCamp NewsInnovation:

• Check out the Wiki
• Sign up for the Google Group
• the BCNIPhilly tag on Twitter
• Read Sean Blanda’s BCNI blog posts

Be sure to check out Sean’s latest blog post about setting the date for BarCamp NewsInnovation:
The news industry needs its own kite moment. It’s time to throw conventional wisdom to the wind and try something different. That’s why in the very city that Franklin conducted his kite experiment, the industry’s forward thinkers will have a meeting of the minds.

Looking forward to this event, hope you are too!

Here at BarCamp Philly headquarters we love a good surprise! Inspired by wordle.net, we decided to provide an alternate shirt the day of the event. Wordle is a great little web app for generating word clouds. You can submit a url, a paragraph of text, or any random assortment of words. If you take a close look at the shirt, you’ll see that the same words are used in the background pattern of this website. This assortment of words was collected by the BarCamp community in our google group! Many thanks to Kelani for taking the time to lay out the design. Also, thanks to our friend Arpit Mathur from CIM for animating the wordle for our interactive display in the 13th floor lobby.

What does your wordle look like?

The schedule is also backed up on our wiki.

10:00 AM

• Setup a Solid Web Dev on your Laptop in room: 704
  by Dave Konopka
• Building & Running www.comcast.net - 40million pageviews/day, CDN, Vendors, Java, AJAX, Python, Ruby, etc. in room: 706
  by Aaron
• Engaging Detractors - Conversation Agent in room: 831
  by Valeria Maltoni
• Connection Not Collection - Community Organizing Using Social Media in room: 833
  by @harveymilk - Chris Bartlett
• Marketing to a Technical Audience - Your most important marketing tool in room: 1221
• Lions Tigers Higher Ed - Web 2.0 in the higher ed community in room: 1215
  by Maumi
• Understanding Differences in Your Consumer/Audience in room: 1219
  by Angel Gibson
• Phila Computer Community - PANMA and PACS in room: 1321
  by Reed Guston - Delta Angel Design
• Mentoring 101 - Team Leadership in room: 1329

11:00 AM

• Usability Discusion in room: 704
• Perfect Pitch - Finding and TellingYour Story in room: 706
  by Megan Wendell - Canary Promo + Design
• Coding for the Mobile Web in room: 831
  by Reed Guston - Delta Angel Design
• ROI for Social Media - Community Conversation Agent in room: 833
  by Valeria Maltoni
• Self Help/Social Change - How can a site help your life? in room: 1221
  by Gary Krane PhD. - Our Couple Space
• Consumer - Centric Health - How we get there - Data portability & All that stuff in room: 1215
  by [HealthCamp] @ekivemark
• OnLine Organizing - tools, methods, secrets, software in room: 1219
  by Charles Lenchner
• Jedi Mind Tricks - mediating user, brand, technology & business goals through conversation in room: 1361
  by Livia Labate @elivlab / Marion esponita
• Social Networks for Offline Communities in room: 1355
  by Dave Konopka, Karen Leary, Becky Sweger

12:00 PM

• Microsoft - Help us suck less in room: 704
• Story? What Story? Once upon a time… How to structure your story in room: 706
  by Mike Davis - Empressr.com @globalcitizen
• Using Open Source Licenses in room: 831
  by Owen Winkler - @ringmaster
• Business Advice (incl. legal) for Startups + Small Business in room: 833
  by Whitney Hoffman
• Web Standards - how to convince the boss - how to roll them out - how to keep it going in room: 1221
  by Kimberly Blessing
• Group Blogging is Like Group Sex - messy, fun & complicated in room: 1215
  by Scott McNulty & Mavisn McClellan
• The Internet Sux - unfollowing, cancelling, unfriending, unplugging - a roundtable discussion in room: 1321
• Build a Drupal Site in 20 min. in room: 1329
  by Mason Wendell - Canary Promo + Design
• Beyond Web 2.0 What’s Next - Convergence; Internet of things, etc. in room: 1355

02:00 PM

• CroudSourcing for Measurable Change (How do we turn ideas into action? direct democracy, get legislators to play along in room: 704
  by @naterkane
• CC Creative Commons & Art - open discussion in room: 706
  by @eagleapex
• Enterprise Mashup Tools - Jackbe’s Presto XML, XPath, Etc. in room: 831
  by @ekivemark
• ROI for Social Media (Bus./Mktg.) in room: 833
  by Beth Harte
• Building Your Community, Sponsors, and Your Brand as a Full Time Job Online in room: 1221
  by Walt Ribeiro
• Testing, Testing - You will always benefit from Usability Testing but when is it Mission Critical in room: 1215
  by Jen Yuan
• What is Agile Software Development and how do I make it work?! in room: 1219
  by David Bulkin - Center for Program Transformation
• Your the President of ideablob.com - What do you do? in room: 1321
• Making the Unusual Career Transitions in room: 1329
  by AlexKnowsHTML
• Innovation in Corporations in room: 1361
  by Arpit (ideal) - Aaron H. (reality) both w/ Comcast
• Making Your Own Business Cards and craft it up / Nanowrimo - find out how to write a novel in 1 month! We will be writing in room: 1355
  by Rachel Sooy @interjection / Purplecar + Melitami

03:00 PM

• Using Flash in an AJAX World - and flex in room: 704
  by arpit
• Unix Command Line Productivity Tips in room: 706
  by Keith Bennett
• CRM Technology - Compare, contrast, integrate, implement in room: 831
• Using Social Networks for Social Change: facebook, myspace & more (especially for nonprofits) in room: 833
  by Ivan Boothe - Rootwork.org
• Brand Management (seo, sm, etc) in room: 1221
  by Beth Harte
• Learn to Make Cheesy iPhone Apps 101 in room: 1215
  by Andy Mroczkowski
• Red Stapler Round Table - An interactive discussion on being more productive and running your business more efficiently in room: 1219
  by Gloria Bell
• Health 10.0 - The Promisses & Dangers of Virtual Omnipresence in room: 1321
• Mentoring 101 - Team Leadership in room: 1329
• Rethinking the .edu in room: 1355
  by Geoff DiMasi - P’unk Ave.

04:00 PM

• Where are we going? Where have we been? The evolution of technology in room: 704
  by Mario Leone - @hexxd1
• Beginning Ruby in room: 706
  by Keith Bennett
• The Absolutely True Story of How I Tried to Reinvent the Online Interview & FAILED! in room: 831
  by David Dylan Thomas
• Your Idea & Why it Hasn’t Happened Yet - a conversation in room: 833
  by Kevin Kitzpatrick
• Intro to JQuery in room: 1221
• Building Better Web Developers - What should colleges be teaching? - Round Table in room: 1215
  by Jason Wertz
• Crisis to Conversation - JetBlue social media in room: 1219
  by Matthew Knell
• Video on the Web + PHLEdit in room: 1321
  by @laureng
• Political Campaigns and New Media in room: 1329
  by @mmayernick

05:00 PM

• What can you present at your next BarCamp? - brainstorm about topics & tools that need attention in room: 831
• Quit Your Job! - Pick my brain about going independent in room: 833
  by Whitney Hess
• Self Help/Social Change - How can a site help your life? in room: 1221
  by Gary Krane PhD. - Our Couple Space
• The Philly Tech Scene - You tell philadelphians what’s going on in the city, blogs, hangouts, etc in room: 1215

Big thanks to Carl Leiby, aka @carlism, for creating and maintaining the digital schedule during BarCamp Philly! Since our event was held on 4 floors, having quick and easy access to the schedule was crucial. Carl did a great job building the app and keeping it fresh all day long. Dan Kelly, @dkelley17, ran back and forth with all the latest session cards, which there were many. Great job, guys!

Check it out:
http://s.barcampphilly.org/
http://s.barcampphilly.org/iphone

We’ve been getting tons of great feedback about the event which is absolutely amazing! YOUR attendance and participation is what made it great.

If you can spare a minute, please share in the comments your thoughts on what worked and what didn’t work, what sessions you got a lot out of, some of your favorite moments, what you’d like to see in a future BarCamp!

BarCamp Philly turned out to be so much greater than we thought possible! THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who helped make it happen, that includes all volunteers, sponsors and attendees (and especially UArts for donating the space!) Your participation in yesterday’s event is what made it EPIC!

STAY CONNECTED
BarCamp Philly on Flickr!
Check out the BarCamp Philly photo pool on Flickr! Please tag your photos with barcampphilly2008 and join the group!

BarCamp Philly Wiki
Is your contact information updated?
Do you have any links or files you want to share with everyone?

RECAPS FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE

BarCamp Philly Huge Success - Philly Future

BarCamp Philly Was Terrific - Karl Martino / @kmartino

Top 10 Reasons Why a BarCamp is Better than Your Company Meeting - Valeria Maltoni / @conversationage

I Follow You - Alex Hillman / @alexknowshtml

BarCampPhilly - an amazing vibe - Mark Scrimshire / @ekivemark

BarCamp Philly blew my mind - Dave Konopka / @lifelikeweeds

BarCamp Philly 2008 Recap - Phillyist / @dior74

Bar Camp Philly after party videos - Melissa Thiessen / @melitami

The Rockband Party at BarCampPhilly! - Walt Ribeiro / @waltribeiro

BarCampPhilly 2008: What a blast ! - Arpit Mathur / @arpit

This Is A Post 4 Living In A Fulltime Era - Maria T Sciarrino / @theoreticalgirl

CIM @ BarCampPhilly 2008 - CIM

Barcamp Philly 2008 - Erin Murphy

BarCampPhilly was a success!! - Aaron Held / @iamaaronheld

Build a Better BarCamp - What Was BarCamp Philly - Owen Winkler / @ringmaster

Barcamp philly - the labs @ laan

Barcamp Philly 2008 - Rachel Sooy / @interjection

(…and hopefully yours!)

Read all the recaps here >>

THANK YOU AGAIN EVERYONE! Let’s stay inspired and stay connected!

..and trending high on Twitter!

Who are you and what do you do?
Oh hai, I’m Jesse Middleton and I’m a technophile and consultant. I work with a number of companies in the Philadelphia area and abroad helping awesome companies to build their technology so it can be
brought to the masses. It’s important to me to bridge the gap between technology and the real world to aid businesses and individuals in better utilizing the tools that could enhance their lives.

Why are you attending BarCamp Philly?
Being part of the coworking community here in Philadelphia has been a blast. It has led me to many ridiculous events and has introduced me to some of the most amazing people. I hope to accomplish two things at BarCamp Philly — 1) Meet even more interesting and creative people and, 2) Share some of my knowledge and experience with those people that are willing to listen.

If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
My discussions could go one of two ways. I would either lead a discussion on developing for the Android and other new-age smart phone platforms or it would be on the importance of privacy and security in this public information age.

Tell us one random fact about yourself.
When I started at Drexel University, my plan was to graduate with a business degree. That took a turn for the better when I was offered a job in network security and spent the next couple of years visiting Mexico, the UK, Poland, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Wales. After visiting all of those places, I still speak only one language, English.

Where can we find you?
My blog when I rant about anything and everything - http://srcasm.com
My Twitter feed where I do most of the same in smaller chunks -
http://twitter.com/srcasm