Barcamp Conway is a tech un-conference held yearly. Started in 2010 it brings together tech professionals from across Arkansas and beyond!

BarCamp 2012

The event was a huge success and drew over 200 attendees.

Website: barcampconway.com

In the press

http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2012/06/06/barcamp-conway-creates-hashtag-to-connect-arkansas-innovators/

http://unotwotrois.blogspot.com/2012/06/another-project.html

http://revelatconway.com/2012/barcamp-conway-technologys-power-to-better-community

Presentations


Presenter: Vincent Flesouras

Presentation: "D&D: DevOps and Drupal"

URL : http://www.funky-penguin.com

Currently employed in a professional capacity practicing DevOps and Web Development for Aristotle Interactive

Technologies discussed:

  • Drupal
  • Drush
  • BASH (Shell scripting)
  • Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP

Tools We Use

One interesting outcome from the most recent event was a discussion on what technologies people are using to get things done. Please discuss below, and we'll add a page when we think of a good name for it!


Company: Tradeomics

Founders: Trey Connell, Nick Brewer

URL: http://tradeomics.com

Description: Building a better trading community. Trade Video Games, Game Consoles, Movies, Phones, Clothing and More. Follow Friends and Negotiate. Trey Connell and Nick Brewer met over Twitter 3 years ago. Nick had an idea and needed a co-founder. The rest is history in the making.

Technologies Used:

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Haml
  • SASS
  • Sublime Text 2 (our editor of choice)
  • MySQL
  • Memcached
  • Nginx
  • Unicorn