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The Web414 members are all abuzz with BarCampMilwaukee2 planning. The guys are helping to wire the newly relocatedBucketworks (the original BarCampMilwaukee was held at the previous location), the site is coming together thanks to Drupal Wizard Blake and the Conference Organizing Distro of Drupal, sponsors are being sought, and the PR team is beating the streets.

Get Involved!

If you are interested in helping out in any way, join the BarCampMilwaukee Yahoo! Group and attend the next Web414 meeting.
Other ways to help out include:

• The first rule of BarCamp is tell everyone about BarCamp. Spreading the word will create a larger turnout which means more diversity and more varied sessions. Tell your SysAdmin, LAN friends, cousin into robotics, your friend who just got his first serious gig as a programmer, and other tech geek friends. Show them the pictures from last year. Tell them about the mashup session you stayed up all night for or the amazing people you met. Blog about it, add it to your delicious, let your guildmates in WOW know about it - go crazy!
• Hit the streets. Once we nail down solid details, we will be able to print up flyers and put up notices at the universities, coffee shops, and other geek hangouts. Ask your local businesses if they would be willing to help us spread the word.
• Finding sponsors - Do you know someone who would be willing to cover food or drinks for a meal, donate money, or offer their services? Share your excitement for BarCampMilwaukee2 with them and let them know what kind of impact it makes on the community.
• Brainstorm! BarCamp is all about the knowledge in the community. How can you share your expertise with other people? Come up with ideas for sessions, mashups, and off the wall projects.

BarCamp is an international network of unconferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies and social protocols.

A couple years ago I got a digital camera that has seen some awesome trips, but is now on its last legs. The battery door doesn't stay shut and the battery life has become horrible because of it.

Lately I have just been taking pictures with my LG F9200, which leaves something to be desired as far as pictures go.

So I have decided that it is time for a new digital camera. I don't have many requirements:

• Use SD cards. I have an SD port in my Lappy, so not only is it convenient, I don't have to deal with Sony-only cards. I can use the ones from my old camera
• Have a nice lcd screen. It doesn't have to be amazing quality, but it can't be laggy or so fuzzy that it is useless
• Have a decent zoom. I can't always be within 10 feet of what I am shooting, so having something with a nice zoom helps.
• Have decent image stabilization. Same thing here as the last point. Doesn't need to be amazing, but I want to be able to take a picture without blurriness.
• Be portable. I want something I can put in my pocket when I run out the door. I have found that I take so many more candid pictures with my cell phone because it is always with me. I would like to get into the habit of doing the same with my camera, but it needs to be light and fit in a girl-sized pocket.
• Reasonably priced. This is a for-fun camera for me - I am not looking for something that will allow me to make out freckles on someone 4 miles away, but I do want to be able to take them to be printed out if I feel the need. I also need to not be broken hearted if I break or lose it.

I have been looking at a couple Nikons and a Canon, but this being my second digital camera ever, I don't know exactly what I want or who to trust.

That being said, does anything come to mind that you would reccommend?