Update (June 30)

beCamp is moving from July 8-9 to September 9-10 (tentatively). More details to follow.

When/Where

• July 8-9 September 9-10
• Charlottesville location almost nailed down

Hosts

• beTech :: Evolve Already

Needs

• venue (requirements below)
  • At least 3-4 medium-sized rooms appropriate for discussions or presentations
  • One or two large gathering spaces
  • At least two bathrooms
  • At least one shower
  • The ability to house 100 people during the day, and 50 people overnight
  • Internet access
  • Free use of the site for an entire weekend
• food
• t-shirts
• sponsors
• organizers
• campers

Sponsors

• University of Virginia ITC will provide 2 projectors (and maybe more stuff or $$)

Organizers

• Steve Stedman

Campers

(please add yourself + email or website)

• Steve Stedman - http://indorgs.virginia.edu/betech/
• John Loy - (a no-personal-website bum)
• Erik Hatcher - http://www.lucenebook.com
• Chuck Beretz - http://www.beretz.com
• Anoop Ranganath - http://ranganath.com/~anoop/blog/
• Keith Bennett - 80% chance I can make it - no web site
• Sean McCord - http://lspblog.wordpress.com - I'll be there if I can, but please bear in mind that, technically speaking, I'm little more than a trained monkey.
• Steve Huffman - http://reddit.com
• Alexis Ohanian - http://reddit.com
• Hugh Brien - http://www.hughbrien.com - I have been writing a lot of Groovy lately

Ideas

Demos

• Collex - Erik Hatcher will demo Collex, the folksonomy-based Google/del.icios/Flickr of 19th century literature. (Ruby on Rails front-end, Solr/Lucene backend).

• Groovy - Language for Everything. I have been using Groovy for a lot of very cool projects lately.

{original} Announcement

beTech is proud to announce that beCamp 2006 will be taking place July 8-9 at a location to be determined. beCamp is Charlottesville's BarCamp-based unconference where the participants actually organize and create the conference. Think of it as an open-source geek gathering where you get to decide what goes into and what comes out of the event. Said one of our beTech colleagues and a two-time FooCamp alumn, "…we need at least 2 days of 24-7 tech talks, caffeine, robots, and heavy duty geeks that can hang all night long!" We setup a beCamp wiki for you to register as a camper and, better yet, help scout a location for the event, enroll sponsors, propose sessions, etc.

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. Watch Add to the beCamp wiki for more information. In the mean time, here's some more background info on what "camping" is all about:

• When Geeks Go Camping, Ideas Hatch (CNN report)
• Foo Camp: Ad-hoc Learning (attendee report)
• BarCamp NYC - The Nuts and Bolts (a BarCamp debriefing)
• Dummies Guide to Organizing a BarCamp In Your City (how-to organize)

Also check out...

The Raleigh-Durham BarCamp (they've got it going on!)