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Let's get a bunch of Gulf Coast geeks together and build something for someone who needs our help.
Maybe it's time we do a BarCamp here in New Orleans. In addition to connecting digital folks, sharing what we know and what we're working on, maybe we can pick a team project to do as well.
I'd like to find a struggling small business we could help immediately with a new site or enhanced Web services. Spend a weekend cranking as a team and launch the thing at the end of the weekend. We can get help from our friends everywhere with regard to code, design, ideas. Brains, we have them at the ready.
Date: February 16th and 17th, 2008
Time: 10am - 6pm (both days)
Where: Voodoo Ventures offices, 757 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 301
BarCamp NOLA is this weekend! We hope everyone can make it, thanks to all the support we've been receiving. We got some great sponsors on board who will be supporting BarCamp NOLA by providing FREE for all attendees:
Coffee & danishes to get our creative juices flowing
Soul Food Lunch on Sat catered by Ms Linda with jambalaya, shrimp pasta, greens, and bread pudding for desert (we'll need a nap after lunch)
Lunch on Sun will be po-boys for everyone who shows up for hack day
A keg of Abita Amber and plenty of soft drinks to keep us fueled through the afternoon and into the evening.
We've got several great organizations who we'll be doing work for over the weekend:
Offbeat.com - New Orleans music bible wants us to work our magic on their website
The Bayou Boogaloo - is a non-profit music festival benefiting Mid City, they want some web help too
And more... depending on how many people come, we'll take on another non-profit project
Check out the awesome t-shirts that are being printed for us by New Orleans' own Dirty Coast. Show up and you'll get one!
Interested in attending? Sponsoring? Helping us organize things? Having us help your organization? Please add your info to this wiki as well as any input you have.
Marnie Webb (of NetSquared) has a NOLA non-profit in mind. Depending on how much interest we get, perhaps we can set up a few teams and do a few projects during the jam session. I think the first MashPit had like 12 people and produced 3 comp'd up Web services.
David Crais, I can work on anything with marketing or marketing research
Maybe we get a bunch of vloggers and podcasters to go out on the Friday before the event and tell untold stories. Maybe an editing jam session that night. A showcase? Start Sat. off with some vids?
Like to emphasize how digital tools can advance our love of and industries creating music, visual art, food, story
one thing we might help with is Alan G's current project for Hollygrove:
I'm working in a specific neighborhood right now, Hollygrove. It's a compelling neighborhood, if people would take a look. We've established a block captain's program, a newsletter, we've produced Podcasts that we've distributed on CD. We're building out a contractor referral database. People in this neighborhood are coming back slowly. There was a lot of damage and many people are still waiting on Insurance and Road Home.
Our new project is to create a marketing strategy for Hollygrove. To attract people to return. Make this multi-media and that would be even better. Also, we have a lot of information that could go online and become a resource for the entire city.
Here is some more information on Hollygrove. I'll be posting some of the stories from this neighborhood on ThinkNOLA.com soon, but for now here is a photowalking expedition by myself and Christopher Johnston.
Evelyn Rodriguez: I'd like to propose a microgranting social network application to help fund arts and culture projects in and around NOLA - and it's use can ripple out wider too. Perhaps it's a Facebook app, perhaps Ning, or something altogether different. I was inspired by artist/waiter Josh Greene, [http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-07-04/culture/the-t
Sunday Mashpits
Codename: PayTron - Peer to Peer Micro-Grants for Arts and Culture
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