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
Hosts
Sponsors
Organizers
- Steve Stedman
- Andrew Sallans
- (your name here?)
Volunteers
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
- Karen McDowell - now Trisha won't be the token female, unless I am the
token dummy. - Michael Conroy -- http://www.pulsecomiczine.com
- Eric Pugh -- http://www.opensourceconnections.com - I had such a blast at CITcon, I'm looking forward to more openspaces style meetups.
- Chris Makarsky -- http://www.chrismakarsky.com
- Doug Chestnut -- homeless
- Patrick Kingsley - www.seas.virginia.edu - I'd love to get onboard with Rails
Schedule
Friday--Day 1
Saturday--Day 2
- breakfast
- lunch
- dinner
- closing party
Activities
- possible swim time
- volleyball tourney
- air hockey
- billiards
Topics I'd Like to Hear About
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?"
- Interfacing with Google APIS (my iCal/gCal sync script 'Novo')
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