I went to last year's Boston BarCamp and it was a great event overall. Some workshops were a little "eh", but others were really good. I'm thinking about doing a session on "Graphic Design for Coders" - anybody here have any thoughts on whether that would be a good topic?
A neat thing I saw at last year's BarCamp was an early demo of Dropbox by Drew Huston who went on to be part of YC Summer '07. I think Reddit demoed at the Boston BarCamp the year before that too, before they went into YC Summer '06.
I remember seeing the Dropbox demo, and I've loved seeing it getting covered in the news ever since. Always nifty to see something in its early stages before it starts to go big.
Graphic Design for Coders could be cool, but I'm not sure what you mean by it. Graphic Design for non-graphic-designers, whom coders are one example of? (That I would love.) Or graphic design via code, like CSS and AJAX? (Which I could also dig.)
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A neat thing I saw at last year's BarCamp was an early demo of Dropbox by Drew Huston who went on to be part of YC Summer '07. I think Reddit demoed at the Boston BarCamp the year before that too, before they went into YC Summer '06.