<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thanks to our many generous sponsors, our hard-working volunteers, and our enthusiastic attendees, BarCampGR 2012 was a smashing success. We set records for Friday night (~150) and total attendance (~200), the food was better than ever, and there were more and more interesting talks than ever before.</div>
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Last year, this follow-up email became a ginormous thread of suggestions for improvements and comments that ended up annoying a lot of people. There was a lot of good discussion, but this year, we'd like to move all of those discussions to our Subreddit. Reddit <span style="line-height:19px;font-family:sans-serif">is a </span>social news<span style="line-height:19px;font-family:sans-serif"> website where the registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down", which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page. They also allow anyone to create their own communities, such as the BarCampGR Subreddit.</span></div>
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We want <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/BarCampGR/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">our Subreddit</a> to become the central place for BarCampGR information, talk ideas, follow-ups, discussions, and other information. Please post links to slides, blog posts, and other follow-up information from your 2012 talks. Also post links to the photos you took at BarCampGR 2012. Let's work together to keep the ideas, discussions, and connections from last weekend going. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/BarCampGR/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.reddit.com/r/BarCampGR/</a></div>
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So thank you all for an amazing BarCampGR 2012. Tell your friends, join the discussions on the Subreddit, and let's make 2013 even more awesome.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div>The venue, conference, food, and Friday after-party were free for everyone thanks to our generous <span style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">sponsors</span>:</div>
<div><ul><li><b>Atomic Object</b> <a href="http://www.atomicobject.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.atomicobject.com/</a></li><li><b>Calvin College</b> <a href="http://cs.calvin.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://cs.calvin.edu/</a></li>
<li><b>Cascade Engineering</b> <a href="http://cascadeng.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://cascadeng.com/</a></li><li><b>Collective Idea</b> <a href="http://collectiveidea.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://collectiveidea.com/</a></li>
<li><b>CQL</b> <a href="http://www.cqlcorp.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.cqlcorp.com/</a></li><li><b>Fusionary</b> <a href="http://www.fusionary.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.fusionary.com/</a></li>
<li><b>GrrCON</b> <a href="http://grrcon.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://grrcon.org/</a></li><li><b>Mutually Human</b> <a href="http://mutuallyhuman.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://mutuallyhuman.com/</a></li>
<li><b>NVINT</b> <a href="http://www.n-vint.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.n-vint.com/</a></li><li><b>SoftwareGR</b> <a href="http://softwaregr.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://softwaregr.org/</a></li>
<li><b>Start Garden</b> <a href="http://startgarden.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://startgarden.com/</a></li></ul></div></div>-- <br> Ben Rousch<br> <a href="mailto:brousch@gmail.com">brousch@gmail.com</a><br>
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