beCamp April 30th-May 1st 2010 @ CitySpace, Charlottesville, VA (on Downtown Mall)

If you're a geek in or around the Charlottesville metroplex or even if you're merely tech-curious, this is the event you don't want to miss. beCamp is Charlottesville's version of the BarCamp unconference phenomenon—organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. Realizing that the most energizing parts of any tech conference are the ad hoc conversations that take place in the hallways between the sessions, beCamp facilitates these types of interactions for an entire event.

This year we are again using the bright airy CitySpace facility, on the downtown mall, underneath the parking garage.  CitySpace has an open layout should mesh well with our OpenSpace conference. We'll have a large room that can hold all 100 of us, as well as 4 or 5 break out rooms for the individual sessions.

We provide the venues, the wireless, the projectors, the food, da beer—you show up to teach, learn, and participate.

Each attendee should talk about something or volunteer (registration, set-up, teardown, etc.). We will suggest and pick the sessions which will be picked by the attendees Friday evening. For example, if lots of people want to hear about Google's OpenSocial, then that will be on the agenda. If no one wants to hear about HTML5, then it won't be on the agenda.

Think of it as an open-source geek gathering where you get to decide what goes into and what comes out of the event. It's 2 days of creating, collaborating, and conversing with people just as juiced excited about technology as you are.

Register Here!

Use this wiki to officially r egister as a camper and, better yet, help enroll sponsors, propose sessions, etc.  Join the beCamp@virginia.edu mailing list at https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/becamp

By the way, did we mention beCamp is FREE!?

Meals may cost, unless we can get y'all to help us with sponsors for those as well! ;-)

Event Details

When

• Friday, April 30th, 5:00PM-9:00PM
• Saturday, May 1st, 9:00AM-5:00PM
• (add to your Upcoming calendar)

Where

• CitySpace (Charlottesville Design Center)
• 100 5th Street NE, on the Downtown Mall, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
• BeCamp Location Flyer

Bring

• Brain
• Laptop
• Reference books
• Games—cards, board games, Legos, video (bring a monitor as well)
• Snacks, beverages
• Camera (Flickr tags: beCamp, beCamp2010, BarCamp)
• Business cards

Organizers

Organizers

• Eric Pugh (venues)
• Jeff Vogelsang

Volunteers

• [Your Name Here]
• Remi Pelletier
• Mel Riffe

Sponsors 

• Hotelicopter
• OpenSource Connections
• Google
• PQA, now part of SRA International
• Charlottesville Sports & Social Club
• Juicy Parts Software
• Dang Development
• NRAO
• UVA ITC 

Sponsor beCamp 2010 (sponsorship opportunities are available!)

Needs (prioritized)

- Please see the above sponsorship page!  sponsorship ranges from $$ to providing food to bring projectors!

Campers

We are limited to around 100 people attending this event, so please only signup if you are planning on being there both Friday and Saturday.  Last year we had a large number of folks come for the beer and fun on Friday, but not actually to contribute to the conference on Saturday!   Some folks were therefore not able to signup.

(please add yourself along with your email/website to the bottom of this list)

(FORMAT: name+email {t-shirt size} website - twitter - comments)

The password/wiki invite is c4mp

1. Eric Pugh {L} http://www.opensourceconnections.com @dep4b
2. John Feminella {M} @superninjarobot
3. Ron DuPlain {M}  @rduplain
4. Remi Pelletier {XL}  @rjug.president
5. Will O'Donovan {XL}
6. Mel Riffe {XL}  CVREG @insanity_rocks
7.  Isaac Truett  {M} http://rva.gtugs.org
8. Nabil Hijazi {XL} email: nabil.hijazi@gmail.com
9. Mike Hatz {XL} email: I am easy enough to find...  ;-)
10. Peter Manis {2XL} @petermanis 
11. Ryan Ahearn {L} @rcahearn 
12. Bob Clewell {no thanks} @bobclewell
13. Alex Mikhail {2XL}
14. Keith Bennett {L}  @keithrbennett
15. Matt Clark {M}  @jmattclark
16. Sue Richeson {3XL} @opertwit
17. Kai Groner {M} @kaigroner
18. John Miller {XL} http://www.rimmkaufman.com
19. John Chapin {L} @johnchapin
20. Duane Gran {M}  @duanegran
21. Debra Weiss {no thanks} http://drwdesign.com 
22. Kelly McDonald {L} email: kelly@fammcdonald.net
23. Stephen Johnston {2XL} http://www.guildlaunch.com/ - @GLStephen
24. Jonelle Kinback {no thanks} http://www.virginia.edu
25. Matthew Derby {3XL} @cl4rk3 
26. Jeff Lavezzo {XL} Lavezzo.com
27. Simeon Fitch {XL} Mustard Seed Software, LLC 
28. Chris Clarke {L}
29. RJ Bruneel {XL}
30. Ben Guseman {XL} Mustard Seed Software, LLC
31. Kam Khare {L} @KamKhare
32. jim nist {M} @gn0m30
33. Hunter Ware  {L} Key Square
34. Ed Im {XL} 4 What, LLC (ButtonALL.com) | @buttonall
35. Stuart Leitch {S} @stuartdleitch
36. Kristy Moon {S} @kristylmoon
37. Doug Chestnut {L} @dougchestnut
38. Michael Holroyd {M} @meekohi
39. Delia Wilson Lunsford [M} @deliawil
40. Rob Ares {L} LivingSocial.com | @rares
41. Howard Parsons (XL) htp@parsonage.net
42. Andrew Diamond {L} http://www.sheprador.com
43. Tommy Murphy {S} http://eat.ourbunny.com - @ourbunny 
44. Bruce Qua {XL}
45. Patricia Gorla {S} @orwhal
46. Jessica Chapin {S} @jessicachapin
47. Chaffee Burke {L}
48. Jeff Bordogna {M} @jeffthink
49. Ben Whaley {L} @brwhaley
50. Jamie Orchard-Hays {M} @jamieorc
51. Nicholas Schlueter {XL} @schlu
52. Dave Lewis {L} @d_a_l_l
53. Ashish Tonse {L} @atonse
54. Grant Oladipo {L} @goladipo
55. John Loy {M} @johnloy
56. Jeff Vogelsang {M} @jeffvogelsang
57. Steve Johnson {noshirt} @spj4g
58. Youssef Chaker {L} @ychaker 
59. Adam Beach {XL}
60. Muzzammil Zaveri {M} @mzaveri
61. Sean Colyer {M} http://www.seancolyer.com - @seancolyer
62. Aaron Crickenberger {L} @spiffxp
63. Kathy Lin {M} @kathylin
64. Ethan Fast {M} http://ethanjfast.com - @unignorant
65. David Robinson {M} http://www.birchstudio.com
66. Tom Herrick {XL} http://www.tomherrick.com @tomherrick
67. Jeremy Swetzoff jdswetzoff@embarqmail.com (M)
68. Chris Hapgood {M} 
69. Waldo Jaquith {noshirt} http://waldo.jaquith.org/  @jaquith
70. Jeff Faust {XL} jfaust@scitent.com 
71. Bill Covert {XL} bcovert@scitent.com
72. J. Albert Bowden {XL} http://bowdenweb.com @jalbertbowdenii
73. Ben Taitelbaum {L} http://reframeit.com @coshx
74. Dan Epstein {M} http://www.ordertopia.com @orderTopia
75. Chris Allport {M} @chrisallport 
76. Eric Hamm {M} http://frugalTheme.com @erichamm 
77. Seth Atwood {L} http://frugalTheme.com
78. John Woodell {L}
79. Jeff Uphoff {M} @juphoff
80. Sharon Barker {L} @sbarker0
81. Brownlee Bakkum {M} 
82. Chad Day {L} @billdacat http://www.cvillesocial.com
83. Scott Stults {XL} http://www.opensourceconnections.com 
84. Derrick Weaver {M} http://www.dwwebservicesllc.com  @webdzin
85. Anthony Burton {XL} @anthonyburton
86. Mark Edwards {XL} @optipop 
87. Rafael Alvarado {L} @ontoligent
88. Bill Tompkins {XL}  Key Square
89. Attila Szabo {XL}  http://www.rimmkaufman.com
90. James Pittard {no shirt}
91. Rolf Braun {L} @rbraun
92. Ryan Morton {M} @rynmrt
93. Sara Gould {L} @sajego
94. Brenden Grace (L) @brendengrace
95. Yuji Shinozaki {M} @ys2n
96. William Sallembien {M} @HooWill
97. Sophie Syed {M} sis8bn@virginia.edu
98. Thomas Steffes {XL} http://www.hotelicopter.com
99. David Moody {L} @davidmoody
100. Joe Crawford {XXL} http://artlung.com/ , http://joecrawford.com/ @artlung.com (Saturday Only)
101. Wendy Repass {s} info@wendyrepass.net 
102. Stephen Soghoin {l} http://www.swingkats.com
103. Matt Mitchell {M} http://hotelicopter.com
104. Siddharth Dalal {M} http://www.ibookdb.net/ - possibly only here on Saturday.
105. Russell Holbrook {M} @rholbrook 
106. Jon Rice cvillejon@gmail.com {XL} 
107. Thomas Harmon {XXL} tharmon@niitek.com 
108. Bob Newsome {XL} bobn@servin.us
109. Deepika Nagaraj {S} www.nrao.edu
110. Vinay Igure {XL} www.fte.com 

Regrets (can't make it, but will be there in spirit)

1. Mark Outten - @as1776
2. Leslie Johnston - http://digitaleccentric.blogspot.com
3. Daniel Lepage - @dplepage 
4. Steve Stedman - @stedman - Wishing I could be there again to experience this massive brain dump from the awesome C'ville-area tech community. Kudos to Eric Pugh and others for improving this amazing event year after year!
5. Joe Meade @joemeade  - have fun, all.
6. Lee Brunjes, @lbrunjes
7. Toni Barskile {XL} @ToniHoo 
8. Matt Dawson - @mattdawson
9. Ben Hocking {L} Mustard Seed Software, LLC
10. William Reynolds @dailycavalier
11. Michael Davis http://www.aboutmichaeldavis.com {XL}  @MichaelDavisEgo

     

     

Schedule

Schedule (proposed)

Friday, April 30th

Saturday, May 1st

Topics I'd Like to Hear About

• Groovy and Grails
• Android Development (Keith Bennett) 
• iTouch & iPhone app & game development
• Architectural and development best practices with Django and RoR
• Plugin, Theme, and Module development for Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and other CMSes\
• How the recent technological innovations can be applied in a business setting
• HTML5 and CSS3, and why IE (and Opera and little) doesn't recognize them
• Software estimation techniques 

Proposed Sessions

• [Nabil Hijazi] - [Groovy and Grails]
• What I Love About Ruby (mostly beginning Ruby, slideshow here) (Keith Bennett)
• [John Loy] Use HTML5 and CSS3 Now (with a little help from Javascript)
• [Chad Day] Using Payware Mobile on the iPhone- might be better as a lightning talk, would have to work to stretch to a full session, will try if interest is there.
• [Remi Pelletier] 'Favorite Software Development Productivity Tools (intel) (updated)' or 'The Integration Tar Pit' Anti-Pattern

Whiteboard Suggestions at beCamp

Coverage

Media Coverage

beCamp is newsworthy. The following media organizations may be interested, if they only knew. If you have connections, let them know about us. (please add more if we missed)

• C-Ville - it might at least be worth someone contacting them to let them know that this is going on. We've met with them previously about the lack of IT coverage in their mag. (also Daily Progress, Hook, Cville.com, Cvillain)

Blog Coverage

If you're blogging about beCamp, add your blog below:

Diversions

Science Fair Entries

We are doing a "mini science fair" Friday night.  Bring anything you want to show off..  Robot cars, MythTV, Home Automation?

• Computers4Kids Booth (Computers4Kids)
• Family Scrum Board (Eric Pugh) 
• Electromagnet
• ElectroGeekOutFest (Finished, partially finished, any many unfinished electronics hacking projects; arduino, breadboarding, soldering, Das Blinkenlight, etc. Simeon Fitch)