It's about that time of year again!

As of 8pm EST this evening, the BarCampDC2 registration is open!

At the time of this writing (09:21pm EST on 22 September), there are less than 150 tickets gone... and they're going to disappear in no time.  If you're interested, you need to move quickly to register and get your tickets.  Sponsors are guaranteed a ticket to get in and with $1000 still required for the effort (maximum sponsorship $250) and the solution is obvious.

No.. quicker than that.

Well, it's about that time of the year... the fall conference season is underway.  We have ZendCon/ZendUnCon (more about that on Monday), but for DC Locals, we have something even more fun:

BarCampDC2

BarCampDC is the event that brought much of the DC Tech Scene together last year.  All the pieces and people were around but we weren't connected... this brought many of them - or people from the various groups - together in one place.  It led to a number of major projects kicking off, some ideas dying and even bigger things being dreamt of.

So here's the only problem.  We're still trying to settle on a date, but we have it narrowed down to three:  27 September, 04 October, or 18 October... and the final date will depend wholly on the venue.

This coverage of BarCampDC is Part 2 of 2. For coverage of the morning sessions, check out BarCampDC 2007 - Part 1.

Update:  Some of the presentations are available on the BarCampDC Wiki.

The first session after lunch (fifth overall) was a joint session between Jackson Wilkinson (pictured left) of Viget Labs and me (pictured right) on the "Mobile Web". We talked about some of the context and development issues that go along with mobile development and it turned in a lively discussion about the state of the industry, especially compared to other nations. The question that kept coming up related to how people currently use the mobile web and the sheer cost of it. We handed the discuss back and forth as we went and the questions were asked. Overall, I think we managed to balance the discussion well between the strategy considerations from Jackson and the development considerations from me. After reading a few reviews and comments, it appears that others liked the discussion handoff as well.

My coverage of BarCampDC turned into an incredibly long post so I've split it into two with the first today and the second part tomorrow. Once the wiki has more of the presentation notes, I'll link directly to each of them. Stay tuned.

Update: Added pictures of presenters.

Update 2:  Some of the presentations are available on the BarCampDC Wiki. and the second portion of the coverage is available here:  BarCampDC 2007 - Part 2.

Before I made it onsite, I stopped by a nearby coffee shop and ran into some of the waiting list. Yes, since there were only 110 slots available onsite, there were literally dozens of people who wouldn't be allowed in. A handful of them were waiting here with their cell numbers on file with the registration desk. I could already tell it would be an interesting day.

The initial presentation scheduling was chaotic at best but somehow it worked. Wow. Presenters signed up for slots/rooms and then we scrambled to sign up for what interested us. There were a handful of sessions on productivity, general design principles, mobile web, ruby, python, and even on the Black Art of Perl (my working title, not theirs).