Update (April 30, 2007)
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a venue! We're negotiating the final details and (fingers crossed) should have an announcement by week's end.
When/Where
- June 15-16, 2007 (5PM Wed-10PM Thu)
- location to be announced soon
Hosts
Needs
venue (requirements below) - food
- t-shirts
- sponsors
- organizers
- campers
Sponsors
Organizers
- Steve Stedman
- Becca Killmeyer
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!)
