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Big thanks to SPARK
and UM's Center for Entrepreneurship for their generous support of ArbCamp 08! SPARK provided the venue, drinks, and split food costs with CFE, while many other folks volunteered their time, muscle, and office supplies to set up an explosive night of geek interaction.
And thanks to everyone who showed up, many of you unconference newbies, to connect in the dead of winter with a diverse crowd of your peers. And eat a ton of pizza.
Here's a quick summary of ArbCamp 08 by the numbers:
- 247 people pre-registered online
- 163 signed-in (although our process was admittedly lossy, especially during the 6 PM zerg rush)
- 96 different companies and organizations represented
- 30 pizzas devoured
- 30 half-hour talks in 3 hours
Online coverage of the event continues on Twitter, Flickr, blogs, and other online forums (did you join the a2geeks LinkedIn group?)...
Some nice video coverage by David Buchanan from Coefficient Media:
And our final schedule:
| Time | A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Organizing Conferences | Music Digital Coaches | Startups in Ann Arbor | Social Networks & Obesity | Parallel Programming (with CUDA) on GPUs |
| 7:30 | Social Networking / Monetizing Social Networks |
D.I.Y. |
Coworking Space in A2 |
OLPC & Nettops |
Sustainable Transportation in Ann Arbor |
| 8 | Promoting a Website / Online Advertising |
Asterisk and/or SIP |
Selling b4 ur Product is Finished |
Girl Geek Night |
Java Audio FFT/NIO |
| 8:30 | Security | Linux Terminal Server Project |
Cloud Replaces IT |
Computational Art / Music / Poetry / Performance |
Photography - Film & Digital |
| 9 | Hacking Activism & Geek Education |
Functional Programming Languages |
Web 3.0 |
Personal Wikis |
Biotech Instrument Design / Open Source Scientific Software / Bioinformatics |
| 9:30 |
Git / VCS |
Pervasive Computing |
Dynamic Wireframing |
Location / Spatial Info. |
A2Game aka "Fluffy Bunny" |