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F1 Web Challenge

Here is a chance for us to give back. Sign up, join our team, and get some rest. We are hoping to carpool, so leave your info below if you need a ride/would like to be a ride and where you are coming from.

From the site:

Sierra Bravo hereby challenges our fellow web professionals (nerds like us) to join a friendly competition in donating 24 hours to build a complete website for a Minnesota non-profit organization — and everyone wins!

Calendar and Event Day Timeline
Event Day Timeline, Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2 *7:30 a.m. — Registration, breakfast served
8:30 a.m. — Welcome remarks by Sierra Bravo and sponsor(s)
9:00 a.m. — Teams meet together for the first time to discuss the mission and objectives of their non-profit, as well as desired functionality of the new website
10:00 a.m. — Begin programming and countdown begins
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. — Lunch served, Guitar Hero Challenge
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. — Dinner served
12:00 a.m. — Midnight snack and another fun challenge (TBD)
6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. — Breakfast
12:00 p.m. — Programming stops, judging begins
12:30 p.m. — Lunch served
1:00 p.m. — Presentations by groups, web demo of their work. This will be the final thing they will be judged on. Judges will have had two previous touch points with each team, including once at the very beginning and again circa what would be considered “bedtime” for the outside world. Winner announced. Closing remarks. Good night and good luck.

F1 Web Challenge

Here is a chance for us to give back. Sign up, join our team, and get some rest. We are hoping to carpool, so leave your info below if you need a ride/would like to be a ride and where you are coming from.

From the site:

Sierra Bravo hereby challenges our fellow web professionals (nerds like us) to join a friendly competition in donating 24 hours to build a complete website for a Minnesota non-profit organization — and everyone wins!

Calendar and Event Day Timeline
Event Day Timeline, Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2 *7:30 a.m. — Registration, breakfast served
8:30 a.m. — Welcome remarks by Sierra Bravo and sponsor(s)
9:00 a.m. — Teams meet together for the first time to discuss the mission and objectives of their non-profit, as well as desired functionality of the new website
10:00 a.m. — Begin programming and countdown begins
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. — Lunch served, Guitar Hero Challenge
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. — Dinner served
12:00 a.m. — Midnight snack and another fun challenge (TBD)
6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. — Breakfast
12:00 p.m. — Programming stops, judging begins
12:30 p.m. — Lunch served
1:00 p.m. — Presentations by groups, web demo of their work. This will be the final thing they will be judged on. Judges will have had two previous touch points with each team, including once at the very beginning and again circa what would be considered “bedtime” for the outside world. Winner announced. Closing remarks. Good night and good luck.

Jinesh had to cancel on me, his corporate customer canceled on him. We are on his list of locations to visit. If anyone would like to help Bob Waldron with this please email me jdavid . net a t g mai l . com and i will connect you together. I will be out of town for the next 3 weeks. I hope there is a barcamp madison to come home to...

Volunteer needs

• promote the event - amazon considers success at 20 participants
• manage catering with Quasi Cafe
• manage bucketworks
• welcome guests and speakers day of - i will provide you a key
• set up cafe - you will need to move the tv from the design room to the cafe, i will be able to train before i go to japan.
• getting the check from amazon for the event, because i will most likely front the catering bill.

Hello Madison area Geeks!

Come have dinner and socialize on April 15th 8pm at Edo Garden.

We plan on discussing the creation of the Web608 group and building community in Madison.

Come create discussions at http://groups.google.com/group/web608
Follow us at http://twitter.com/web608

What: Geek Dinner
When: April 15th at 8pm
why: Because we are proud to be geeks
Where:
Edo Garden
6309 Monona Dr
Monona, WI 53716
Map: http://tinyurl.com/6gthxs

The Chicago Cultural Center (77 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago) is hosting an event next week Tuesday morning regarding the Web 2.0 movement as it relates to the arts. Please see this informational flyer. The keynote speaker is the co-author of a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which can be found here.

I will be attending at least part of the event; if any of you are interested in making the trek down to join me, please sign up for this event on the Web414 site by Friday afternoon (4/18/08). I will RSVP for all who sign up.

Questions? E-mail me.

--Patrick

We've got a big name in the computer field coming to town (Robert Martin!), and I thought you'd all enjoy this chance to hear him speak for free at the Wisconsin Java Users Group.

"Of all the Agile methods, none has captured the attention of the business community in the way that SCRUM has. The simple elegance of it's principles and practices has made it the obvious choice for project managers. The certification also has it's allure. Yet for all it's positives, SCRUM has little to say about technical disciplines.

In this talk, Robert C. Martin, founding member of the Agile Alliance, and it's first chairman, talks about how SCRUM can be supercharged through the addition of technical practices."

Agile practices are often associated with development teams, but we'll all be seeing more of them as they gain in popularity.

5:30 p @
Wells Fargo
100 Heritage Reserve
Menomonee Falls, WI 53051

More details at http://www.wjug.org

As many of you know, I'm active in the local chapter of the technical writers' professional organization, the Society for Technical Communication (STC). We meet monthly for dinner and a presentation. This month, we're having something that may be of interest to Web414 folks. Keith Hoffman, a tech writer and football podcaster from Madison is coming to talk.

The event is at Klemmer's in West Allis, 10401 W. Oklahoma. If you want to have dinner, you have to RSVP at www.stc-wi.org by Tuesday and pay $20 (yeah, I know). That starts at 6pm. If you just want to come for the talk, that's $5, and you can just show up (though RSVPing is nice). If anyone wants to come and can't afford the $5, let me know.

I suspect the discussion will be at a pretty basic level, but I hear Keith is an interesting/entertaining guy. I will also tell him about Web608.

"Official Verbiage":
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people are engaging in conversation on the Internet. As mobile audio and video have risen to prominence, the opportunity to connect to your audience over these channels has never been greater. This presentation will cover:

* Podcast overview/history
* Podcast demonstration
* Podcast revenue streams

Keith Hoffman is the Marketing and Communications Manager at CDW Berbee in Madison, Wisconsin. He has led several company-wide inititatives to establish a podcast channel for CDW Berbee customers. In addition, he hosts the Fanstar411 Podcast during the NFL football season, which can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fanstar411. Keith is the Immediate Past President of the STC Four Lakes Chapter and is a Senior Member.

Additionally, during dinner chapter member Trina Grieshaber will present a preview of her presentation for the STC Conference in June, "Communicating and Creating Training for Disasters and Emergencies."

On May 11th Geeks from all over the 608 region will flock to Madison for the web technology groups premier meeting.

Topics:
Christian Wilcox will be a demonstrate Google's recently released App Engine. While currently only supporting Python, App Engine is a free fully integrated application environment built on Google robust distributed infrastructure. We may even see Django in action.

Jonathan Yankovich will show us how to keep paperwork from bogged you down with an intro to Getting Things Done (GTD) and project management techniques.

Andrew Shell recently attended Startup School in San Francisco. He will give us a recount of the event before we discuss Startup Weekend Madison.

We will also cover the current state of BarCampMadison2 and the possibility of starting a coworking location in Madison.

Location:
Extra Bold Portfolio School
121 S Pinckney St
Madison, WI53703
(608) 250-9253‎
Google Map

Find us: Twitter, Google Groups, and http://web608.org

Please join us for the first Web608 meeting... and remember to call your mother.