beCamp June 15-16!

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When/Where

• June 15-16, 2007 (5PM Fri-9PM Sat) (add to your Upcoming calendar)
• Fry's Spring Beach Club (2512 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903)

Hosts

• beTech :: Evolve Already
• Fry's Spring Beach Club

Sponsors

• University of Virginia ITC

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/
• Prasad Sombhatta - http://askprasad.wordpress.com/
• Keith Bennett - 80% chance I can make it - no web site
• Sean McCord - http://lsp.itc.virginia.edu - 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
• Steve Johnson - BarCampHTML, Rails, TYPO3, VMware ESX enthusiast
• Trisha Gordon - http://www.people.virginia.edu/~psg3a/ - token female??? hope not. Collab maven. Curious about Groovy stuff. In the meantime, I more or less just ape whatever Sean McCord is doing.
• Nick Skriloff - 80% chance I can make it - no web site

Schedule

Friday--Day 1

• dinner

Saturday--Day 2

• breakfast
• lunch
• dinner
• closing party

Activities

• possible swim time
• volleyball tourney
• air hockey
• billiards

Topics I'd Like to Hear About

• Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Tools
• Yahoo Pipes
• RSS possibilities
• Ruby on Rails apps
• beTech web dev sandbox
• Groovy/Grails +
• MonoRail
• Web 2.0 concepts
• PHP5
• WWDC concludes on June 14th. Maybe someone who attends WWDC could present on news from WWDC.
• Blacklight
• Solr Flare
• beTech Labs + Code Bank(?)

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?"