Archive for the ‘unconferences’ Category

WhereCampPDX Locative Games Day

Sunday at WhereCampPDX was Locative Games. I played PacManhattan and did some geocaching.  I had heard of PacManhattan before, but playing is believing.  Essentially it is PacMan, but played in the real world with real people as both PacMan and the ghosts.  All of the ghosts wore rain ponchos to look more ghostlike.  Below is [...]

October 5, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: unconferences  2 Comments

WhereCampPDX Unconference Session Day Summary

Yesterday was the unconference session portion of WhereCampPDX.  Meaning that there were sessions.  I lead a discussion on OpenStreetMap in the United States.  It was the first time people have worded questions to me in the form of “What does the OpenStreetMap think about….”  Getting across the free flowing community was somewhat difficult to explain [...]

October 4, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: unconferences  4 Comments

Ruby DCamp Day Two

In the past I’ve had a history of only posting about the first day of a barcamp.  This is my attempt to buck that trend.
The second day of Ruby DCamp was just as awesome as the first.  For visual proof of how great it was there is the rubydcamp tag on flickr. There is something [...]

September 20, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Ruby, unconferences  No Comments

Ruby DCamp Day One

This is really a non-geo post, but I currently do a lot of geo-related programming in Ruby.
Ruby DCamp is the first unconference/barcamp I’ve attended where we actually camped. I’ve been to barcamps such as WhereCamp that had a history of camping, but happened to be unable to the year I attended.  So far I [...]

September 18, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Ruby, unconferences  No Comments

WhereCamp5280 Day One Highlights

I attended a previous WhereCamp this year in Palo Alto, that said I wasn’t sure what to expect from WhereCamp5280. For those unfamiliar with BarCamps they are unconferences which means the topics and schedule are determined by the participants the morning of the event. Also if the event is two days the [...]

August 15, 2009   Posted in: OSM, unconferences  No Comments

Am I at WhereCamp5280?

So this week I’m off to WhereCamp5280.  In honor of this I forked Andrew Turner’s “Am I at Where?” github repository and made a new repo specifically for WhereCamp5280.
You can play with the results here.  This was my first time playing around with my iPhone and its in browser geo-location capabilities.  I really should use [...]

August 9, 2009   Posted in: Mash-up, unconferences  No Comments

D.C. OpenStreetMap Mapping Party

One of the projects I contribute to is the OpenStreetMap project.  OSM is similar to Wikipedia but is for geographic data, it is editable by anyone and can be used with attribution by anyone.  One of the ways that people are introduced to OpenStreetMap is through mapping parties and I am helping organize one on [...]

June 6, 2009   Posted in: GPS, OSM, entrepreneurism, unconferences  No Comments

Events of the Past/Future

I’m making an effort to go to more events lately, below are MapLoser approved events I have attended or will attend.
This past week in addition to the OSM Baltimore Mapping party I also attended Social Matchbox DC, which is a start-up entrepreneur type of event.  When ever I’m around start-up types all I can think is “I [...]

April 5, 2009   Posted in: conferences, entrepreneurism, unconferences  Comments Closed