Just a quick update. We decided on the date. BarCampBay will be held the weekend of November 8th & 9th.

Also, I created the logo last night. Here it is:

Yeah, yeah, the GG bridge is a bit cliche, but I think it looks a kinda snappy.

Anyways, the BarCampBay wiki page can be found here: http://barcamp.org/BarCampBay

We’re still in need of sponsors, a venue, volunteers, and maybe an organizer or two, so if you can help, send an email to barcampbay@gmail.com

I’ve been thinking for a while about planning a general BarCamp for the bay.  I finally got around to contacting some people and it seems like there would be sufficient interest.

The date we have chosen is the last weekend in October.  We don’t have anything more than that, so I’ll update the blog/wiki/stuff when more stuff is decided.

For now if you want, follow BarCampBay on twitter.  Also, we’re still need in volunteers, so if you’re interested, drop me an email at mikelikespie [ at ] gmail.

The first day of BarCampBerlin was interesting.  There’s a ton of bloggers, a ton of non-technical people, but that’s cool.  A few people came to my session on Pylons, but stuff broke, so maybe they shouldn’t have :).  I tried to emphasise the awesomeness of SQLAlchemy, which is what the people that came were mainly interested in.

Partying in Berlin is crazy… Clubs don’t close at 2:00 AM like in the states, but that’s when the party starts.  And the techno is amazing.  I was dancing until 6:00 today… and then I had to wake up at 9:00.  So tired.   I’m pissed at the hostel I stayed at too… they didn’t have lockers.

Lates.

So, I found out there is a BarCamp in Berlin coming up this weekend… And I decided to go. I want to present so I have to get my shit together. It seems like it will be a little more focused than the BarCampBlock in Palo Alto… So I’m not sure how a session on the impact of lolcats would go over. I don’t think any other low level hackery would fly either.

This leaves me with a couple options. One of them includes iPhone stuff, such as setting up the llvm-gcc crosscompiler in Linux, maybe an intro to UIKit, or something else.

The other idea I have involves pylons. I’m pretty familiar with the basics, but I think it would be nice to shed some light that Rails and Django aren’t the only MVC web frameworks out there.I really hope to get a more global perspective of what’s going on while I’m there an meet a bunch of new people.