Wow! That was amazing! Thanks to our brilliant, creative, and collaborative campers and to our awesome sponsors, beCamp 2007 far exceeded everyone's expectations. This HAS to happen again!
The ratings scale ranges from 1 (blows chunks) to 5 (fantabulous).
| location | event date | organization | schedule | diversions | food | presentations | registration | internet | comments | improvements |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4.5 | 4 | 2 | Air conditioning please. Overall very fun and good. | Better WiFi/power plugs, more flashy demos, maybe fireworks and swordfights. |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Do it again! | We'd like to sponsor! |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | | | 5 | 5 | | 3 | cross noise, one participant to another & from nearby chats | provide a separate chat area & encourage its use; better separate meeting areas; power strips |
| 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | Awesome! Geek nirvana! Do it again soon! | More of everything, it will improve as a local culture for it develops. |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | have a volunteer organizer--someone who organizes the volunteers | promote at local technical companies: SNL, BRI, … |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | | Encourage more people to camp! |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Great event | |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | | |
| 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | | Lunch was awesome! | |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | | | Lunch was yummy! | |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | Lunch was great, dinner was not | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | | | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Advertise more | |
| 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | Great event! Keep doing it. | More music! Need wireless :-) |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Try to promote this to the tech depts. Of the major C'ville employers (Sperry, Northrup, SAIC, PRA,…) | Take pictures of registrants, make a private contact page so conversations can continue. Turn acquaintances into collaborations. |
| 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | | |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | | More demos, maybe kiosk-like stations. |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Wonderful event! Let's have another soon! | More veggie options, please! Make some more organized events (e.g. games) early in the night for the introverts. |
| 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | Great first start! Really appreciate the effort behind-the-scenes to get this running. | More people, more formal seminars |
| 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | | 3 | {virtual attendee} …the online coverage was great. I could see the excitement build as the date approached. This was a marvelous event. | |
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| 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 2.9 | < AVERAGE | |
In the meantime, let's try to recapture a bit of the magic that happened at Fry's Spring for posterity and to keep the conversations rolling:
Friday
5:00-8:00
Happy Hour / BeBQ Dinner (Pig Daddy BBQ + beers/ciders > thanks OpenSource Connections!)
8:00-8:30
Everyone gather for brief (3-word or haiku!) intros
Memorable 3-word'ers or haiku's
8:30-9:00
Organize the evening and next day on whiteboard / drink / eat / beMerry
9:00-9:45
Blacklight and Collex presentation/conversation/demos
9:45-1:30
Live music by The Indeterminants (The Finest in Appalachian Surf!) + Wendy and the Wii
Saturday
8:00-9:30
Breakfast (Bodos and Starbucks > thanks ALTERthought!) and Networking
9:30-10:20
Session pitches, choose, organize sessions
10:30-11:20
Ruby on Rails
- SUMMARY:
- LINKS:
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Managing CSS/JS on Large Sites
- SUMMARY: Modularize your code, include only what is necessary, overspecify rather than underspecify your CSS. Separate typography, colors, structure, forms, and utility classes.
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Indi Game Development
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Functional vs. Procedural Languages
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11:30-12:20
Amazon Web Services, Facebook Platform, REST/APIs
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How We Understand What to Build
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JS Library Smackdown
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Subversion Release Management
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12:30-1:50
Lunch (Sticks Kabob Shop > thanks Intalgent!)
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Future of C'ville Tech Community
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2:00-2:50
Amazon Web Services, Facebook Platform, REST/APIs (continued)
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Animation
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Flex/Action Script
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Reputation on the Net
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3:00-3:50
Scaling Rails
Web Standards/Accessibility
SMS Gateways
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Agile Methods...
4:00-4:50
JRuby
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How to Screen Scrape
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Google Maps/Earth API
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CSS Ninja
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5:00-5:50
Building Online Community
- SUMMARY: Don't ban! Contact trouble-makers personally and kindly -- use "bozo filters" if necessary. Allowing comments on a blog means you are already running a community. Churn is good. Communities have a natural lifespan, and so does a single user's involvement. Reward good behavior.
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Grails
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Web Design for the Design Challenged
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What's after Ajax
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6:00-6:30
Wrap-up
Clean Up
Ideas for Next beCamp
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Comments and/or Quotes to Help Promote Next beCamp
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