beCamp June 15-16!

• Please use the becamp tag for content related to this event (blogs, Flickr, del.icio.us, technorati, etc.).

When/Where

• June 15-16, 2007 (5PM Fri-11PM Sat)
• location to be announced by May 4

Hosts

• beTech :: Evolve Already

Sponsors

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

Needs

• venue
• sponsors
• t-shirts
• food
• organizers
• campers

Organizers

• Steve Stedman
• Andrew Sallans

Volunteers

• (your name here?)
• (your name here?)

Participants (Campers)

(please add yourself + email or website)

• Steve Stedman - http://betech.virginia.edu
• John Loy - (a no-personal-website bum)
• Erik Hatcher - http://www.lucenebook.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
• Chris Maness - http://chrissconnection.blogspot.com/ - too much ruby
• Jim Bain - http://www.flyingdogmedia.com/ Love all things web 2.0. Might change my name to Jim 2.0.
• Andrew Sallans - no web site

Schedule

Friday--Day 1

• dinner

Saturday--Day 2

• breakfast
• lunch
• dinner
• closing party

Topics I'd Like to Hear About

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Proposed Sessions

• 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?"