BarCampBankSanFrancisco

We're organizing an informal drink for participants of either BCBSF2 or Finovate Startup 09, both or none More info at http://post-bcbsf2-pre-finovate09-drink.eventbrite.com/

Frederic Baud: Small reminder for the informal drink we planned. The time is 6:00pm, the place is 21st Amendment. All the details on http://post-bcbsf2-pre-finovate09-drink.eventbrite.com/ - please register if you plan coming so we get a feeling of the space we'll ... [read more]

Again, we are a couple of people from out-of-town and we are thinking of getting together for brunch on Sunday morning. We don't know the exact time yet, nor the place. Please contribute to ideas, even if you're not planning to come. We may do a count on some other tools to refine the reservation questions

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Frederic Baud: we shall set the final place before 10:00am so that everyone is comfortable reaching it at 11:00am. Please provide input.

Allison: In SF you might consider Zuni: Zuni Café 1658 Market St. (bet. Franklin & Gough Sts.) San Francisco, CA 94102 415-552-2522 www.zunicafe.com http://www.yelp.com/biz/zuni-cafe-san-francisco If you are willing to venture out of SF proper, I like Stack's... [read more]

Frederic Baud: So we go for "Café Zuni" at 11:00am sharp (yesterday was very impressive). All the details are above. Thank you to Allison.

we're a couple of out of town planning to meet around Union Square where we stay. We're looking for recommendations about the place. We know the time 8:00pm. Please provide your own suggestion, we're looking for local advice, that does not mean you plan to come.

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Brad J Garland: I'm game for wherever. I'm staying at the Parc 55 Hotel (supposed only a few blocks from Union Square).

Frederic Baud: A suggestion from Guillaume (thx Guillaume) @giyom: restaurant recommendation from @schauleh for #bcbsf2 people: http://www.oshathai.com/ (thai) 149 2nd street across from 111 Minna

Frederic Baud: OK, I'll propose that we go for the Thai restaurant map is http://tinyurl.com/c3ykjk Can people try to be there at 8:00pm sharp so that we can get a good idea of the size when we ask for the table?

Attached is the press release that you can freely send around and below our blurb to put in a email if necessary. See you on Apr 25. ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Innovators, It's been a year since we had the first BarCampBankSF at the UC Berkeley campus -- and given the current state of the economy, the collapse of the stock markets, the credit crunch hitting the global markets and the issuing severe slowdown ... [read more]

An Eventbrite's site has been setup to let everyone register and pay the proposed fee ($26). The url is http://bcbsf2.eventbrite.com/ Please, also add your name to http://barcamp.org/BarCampBankSF2 and connect with other participants through this CrowdVine's group. See you there, Frederic

All, I've created a generic BarCampBank Crowdvine social network if we want to exchange messages not necessarily linked to the local contexts. http://barcampbank.crowdvine.com This came to me after seeing Ginny subscribe to this group and after I posted the link on CIFT. I wondered if we could use a central place for Crowdvine users.

Just discovered the "Center for Innovative Financial Technology, UC Berkeley" http://cift.haas.berkeley.edu/index.html I had known before, I would have tried to drag some of them to BarCampBankSF. I think we could try to establish links for BarCampBankSF2 http://barcamp.org/BarCampBankSF2 They also have a Crowdvine site http://cift.crowdvine.com/

All, Robbie Wright made the suggestion that it would make sense to have a LinkedIn Group for BarCampBank. Thanks to him for the impulse. Group has just been approved, and application can be done via: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/82988/53DB6748EC70 (Please let me know if you have any problems with the link. Allow for a couple of days for moderation of an application after it has been done, it seems LinkedIn does not warn of pending applications).... [read more]

All, The idea of organizing a second BarCamBank San Francisco is now in the air. The wiki page to start brainstorming and showing your interest is http://barcamp.org/BarCampBankSF2 The BCBSF Google group http://groups.google.com/group/barcampbank-sf can also be used to exchange on the idea. Cheers,

Morriss Partee: Hey gang, thanks for making the inaugural BCBSF so great. I don't know if y'all will be doing one in six months or a year from now, but I now know of several people (Gene Blishen, Tim McAlpine, Ginny Brady, and myself), who are big fans/veterans of B... [read more]

As mentioned during the wrap-up, it would be great to have a couple of meeting minutes, photos, videos, anything that would allow people to benefit from the fabulous talks that took place during BCBSF. Wherever you post this information, please use http://barcamp.org/BarCampBankSF as the main entry point for all this by inserting links in the wiki page. People who animated sessions or participated to one (that means everyone), please try to put a... [read more]

Hi Everyone, For those interested in a second day of BCBSF, let's meet at 1030am at Cafe Durant in Berkeley. Please see the link below for details. There is rooftop seating, which should be nice (weather permitting). http://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-durant-berkeley

Frederic Baud: Good for me. Thanks for setting this up and thanks for the link. See you there.

Morriss Partee: Hi Ani, sounds good to me too. Susan, Dan, Rob, and I will be there as well. Looking forward to it! We'll dress warm for the rooftop!

Morriss Partee: Thanks for picking this place Ani! Very nice to meet you at the camp, and best wishes with your P2P lending venture. Look forward to connecting with you on LinkedIn.

Please upload any and all photos that you shot at BCBSF (or on the way to, or home from) to Flickr. Then add them to the BCBSF Flickr group at this url: http://www.flickr.com/groups/barcampbanksf/ You all look mahvelous!

Jean-Christophe Capelli: Photo uploaded. Done. My favorite is "Jason holds Court" :)

Morriss Partee: Thanks for adding your photos, JC! It's great to get these multiple views of the event. I hope we get a couple more people uploading their photos too!

I may be a little bit late for Matt's purposes on this, but Matt was tossing some slogan ideas for the BarCampBank my way, and I thought a good one would be "building bridges in the world of financial innovation". He suggested I throw this one out to the community for feedback. What does everyone else think?

We are a couple of barcampbankers planning to continue discussing after BCBSF's first day around a drink and having dinner together. We would probably do that in Berkeley's area. That would be an opportunity to socialize in a different settings, although I think there would be a lot of discussions around banking and finance ;-) Maybe we could start quantifying the interest and see the options for holding this mid-event.

Jean-Christophe Capelli: Count me in !

Morriss Partee: Hi Frederic, great idea. I'll be in for dinner and drinks on Saturday evening as well. I understand that Berkeley has a section of town known as the gourmet ghetto. I have no idea if that is a good thing or not, so if anyone knows of a suitable place... [read more]