beCamp June 15-16!

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. beCamp is Charlottesville's version of the BarCamp phenomenon—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. It's 24+ straight hours of coding, collaborating, and conversing with people just as juiced about technology as you are. And the venue couldn't be more perfect for such mayhem: the Fry's Spring Beach Club!

Use this wiki to register as a camper and, better yet, help enroll sponsors, propose sessions, etc.

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When/Where

• June 15-16, 2007 (5PM Friday to 9PM Saturday; but you don't have to stay overnight) (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
• [http://avenue.org] | Monticello Avenue] (working out details...)
• (your company here?)

Sponsor Opportunities

• venue
• t-shirts
• food and/or meals (see schedule below)
• coffee
• bar tab (yup, beer will be served. now, whether or not it's free/discounted depends on our sponsors.)
• office supplies (e.g., flip chart pads)
• band (we have a stage, music would be nice to close on Saturday.)

Organizers

• Steve Stedman
• Andrew Sallans
• (your name here?)

Volunteers

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

Participants (Campers)

(please add yourself along with your email/website to the bottom of this list)

• 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(?)
• Scrum

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?"