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
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
Organizers
Campers
(please add yourself + email or website)
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 - I have been using Groovy for a lot of very groovy projects lately. Plus it's fun to say : "Hey, did you get that groovy script I sent you?"
{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:
Also check out...
The Raleigh-Durham BarCamp (they've got it going on!)
