BarCamp Orlando 2012

5^th Annual

What is it?

BarCamp Orlando is an annual community-building event which aims to bring people from different backgrounds together for cooperative learning. Technologies such as Ruby, PHP, Java and C will be present alongside graphic design, music, photography, and other new media. We hope to provide free t-shirts and lunch to all attendees, but can only do so with assistance from sponsors.

Food Drive

We'll be hosting a food drive to benefit Orlando's Community Food & Outreach Center. Attendees who donate (non-perishable food items only, please) will be given BarCamp stickers! Special thanks to BungoBox for assistance in food pickup and delivery.

The First Rule of BarCamp

It is strongly recommended that attendees give a demo, a session, or help with one. Don't be intimidated by this, just pick something you're passionate about and come give a talk on it. It could be anything... an operating system you use, a language you program with, or how to wash your cat. We have four speaking rooms at our venue, and a projector will be available at all but one.

Talks will be scheduled on the day of the event (that's part of the fun). We'll build a speaker schedule on a whiteboard starting at 9:30 am. Come early if you want to guarantee a speaking spot!

Location

For the first time, BarCamp will take place in the heart of downtown Orlando's tech scene at The Plaza. We'll have four areas available for presentations in the north tower: Voxeo's 10th floor common area, and three in the 20th floor space that will soon be home to Envy Labs and Code School. Lunch will be served at TBA, and plenty of open space will be available to hang out and mingle.