Adopt a camp!

Now that we’re getting down to the wire, we’re discovering that a number of cities don’t have an active organizer.  Which is totally our fault, and be assured that we want to punish ourselves appropriately.

But we still want everyone to attend an event, so we’re coming out of time out long enough to give you this list of orphaned cities:

• Houston Adopted by Anthony Garcia (@anthgar)
  
• Boston Adopted by John R. Tomawski (@nebj00la)
• Orlando Adopted by Kevin Rohling and Roy Marquez
• Omaha Adopted by Flye Rosal and Carl Zulauf (@exmancer)
• Portland Adopted by Jordan Gensler (@kense)
• Amsterdam
• Miami
• Chicago Adopted by Max, and we just found you a venue!  Details coming soon.
• New York Adopted by BlueSwitch (@blueswitch)
• Seattle Adopted by Dave Peck (@dangerdave)
• St. Louis Adopted by Jeremy Alms
• Austin Adopted by Dan Rumney (@dancrumb)
• Charlotte

If you can adopt one of the cities on this list, please contact Dan asap.  Once you’re set up, you’ll be able to post to your city’s blog to keep folks updated on your status, and you can email other attendees to enlist their help.

And if you see that your city was recently adopted, it’ll be a huge help to your organizer to volunteer  however you can.  Give him/her some venue ideas and offer to present.  Even getting feedback that other people really care is a huge motivation.

This all may sound intimidating, but once you get a few passionate minds working together, you’ll be surprised at what you can accomplish.  Remember, the first barcamp was organized in a week.  You can do this!

PS:  If you discover any more cities who need help, please let us know in the comments.

UPDATE:  There’s a ton of last minute organizing activity on twitter today, so try doing a search for preDevCamp <yourcity> for the latest details.

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