So my friend John convinced me and a mutual friend of ours (Joyce a geek in training) to go to BarCamp this weekend. We had a blast!
Barcamp is free, very open ad-hoc technical conference.
Registration is free, but everyone is encouraged to present something.
Time is allocated into 30 minute blocks and you basically just pick an open time-slot/room and write in what you are wanting to present, and then nerds show up at that time to listen to you (if it sounds interesting). I did a presentation covering a brief overview of Haskell (bad slides here) and got a chance to listen to the presentations of several other fellow nerds. It was a lot of fun actually 
One of the coolest things about BarCamp was all the awesome free stuff! (sponsored by local companies):
- Free Tee-shirts
- Free pizza for dinner of Friday.
- Later Friday evening we all headed over to the Grand Rapids Brewing Company (nice place) for free beer (free beer!) and free appetizers!
- Free breakfast Saturday morning
- Free Subway subs for lunch
And did I mention that this was all free!
Anyway, I had a great time. Will definitly be going again next year! 