The BarCampMadison site is up now: http://www.barcampmadison.com/ and while they still don't have a date set (sometime in Feb. 2007) you can sign up on the...
What's more, they're announcing: BarCampUSA (http://www.barcampusa.com) to be held in southeast Wisconsin (Jefferson Co. fairgrounds) Aug 23-26, 2007....
Not sure if you've seen this, but the some folks in Austin TX did this sort of thing recently[0]. I know this sort of thing also has traction in the...
Blake Hall
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Nov 17, 2006 5:27 am
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a few thoughts on my way home marathons raise funds for breast cancer and other non profits, but most geeks don't run, and running is not really that...
justin kruger
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Nov 17, 2006 5:45 am
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that is a kickin' idea; count me in! My son went through Leukemia treatment at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (for more than six years of the first eight...
do we know what the status is of sponsor thankyous? i wanted to start a conversation with our sponsors about a few things and i realized that i do not think...
justin kruger
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Nov 17, 2006 12:35 pm
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clint, your story reminds me more of habitat for humanity, but another great idea. ... -- -- Justin Kruger http://jDavid.net jDavid.net@... Fireseed...
justin kruger
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Nov 17, 2006 12:46 pm
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I don't think we ever did a "formal" thank you (like a letter) but I did thank each sponsor I was involved with, and made sure that shirts got to: C2,...
I think this would be excellent. Not only would we be doing something for a non-profit, but it would bring more publicity to the event for sponsors *and*...
lets start with a general one, and then we can tweek it to each specific sponsor. should we mention barcampMadison, and barcampUSA or save that for a separate ...
justin kruger
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Nov 17, 2006 2:55 pm
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I think it's worth mentioning them, but just as an aside for now. If they have a great interest in them, they can contact us at their will. Pete ... -- ...
Yeah I quite like the idea of a hackathon, but i think it should be more wide open in terms of the projects that we can take on. Drupal isn't really my thing. ...
Yeah, writing a module would not make sense... What might make sense is to invite some non-profits, to meet with us techies, and figure out what one group can...
my thoughts are more in line with pete's ... -- -- Justin Kruger http://jDavid.net jDavid.net@... <img...
justin kruger
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Nov 17, 2006 9:24 pm
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Speak it brother! I work for a non profit as my day job. As I have a previous professional IT background I inherited the IT issues as well. It is definitely...
I didn't mean to imply that it had to be a drupal project. Sorry about that. I mean to say, 'hey the open source project i'm most active with does this, and...
Hi, all: Starting this morning, someone/some robot with the username Z2fool has begun spamming the wiki. I removed a bunch of entries, and he/it just put...
user is blocked, he registered to make it hard to track ip addresses ... -- -- Justin Kruger http://jDavid.net jDavid.net@... <img...
justin kruger
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Nov 18, 2006 5:53 pm
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tegan, you now have sys op privileges on the site, look under special pages, to perform spam blocking ... -- -- Justin Kruger http://jDavid.net ...
justin kruger
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Nov 18, 2006 6:08 pm
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... I run a MediaWiki site, and we saw a few bouts of spambot attacks last year, but it seemed to die down quickly. (And this is on a wiki that requires an...
... BarCamp Madison is set for March 3 & 4 2007 Location: Inn on the Park Hotel across from the capital www.innonthepark.net Stratagem www.stratagemnet.com has...
That sounds good, I will be able to attend the meeting if its on the 9th. Since I live in Madison and am a student at UW I would like to become involved in the...
HEADS UP, for those of you who've had an email about this from me before -- today's is a super utility -- an extra-powerful macro-maker, letting you automate...
I attended a session at BarCamp called "Non Profits and Technology". As I recall the group was split along 2 lines. using technology to enhance daily ops at...
I think it would be good if we could put a place holder on the BarCampMilwaukee.Com website indicating our intent to hold an event this year (yes, I'm...