beCamp June 15-16 @ Fry's Spring Beach Club (Charlottesville, VA)
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 unconference phenomenon—organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. Realizing that the most energizing parts of any tech conference are the ad hoc conversations that take place in the hallways between the sessions, beCamp facilitates these types of interactions for an entire event. We provide the venue (the funky, historic Fry's Spring Beach Club), the wireless, the projectors, the food, da beer—you show up to teach, learn, and participate.
Each attendee has to talk about something or volunteer (registration, set-up, teardown, etc.). There will be a number of sessions which will be picked by the attendees at the start of the event. For example, if lots of people want to hear about Blacklight, then that will be on the agenda. If no one wants to hear about HTML5, then it won't be on the agenda.
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 2 days of creating, collaborating, and conversing with people just as juiced about technology as you are.
Use this wiki to register as a camper and, better yet, help enroll sponsors, propose sessions, etc.
By the way, did we mention beCamp is FREE!?
Meals may cost, unless we can get y'all to help us with sponsors for those as well! ;-)
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Event Details
When
- Friday, June 15, 5:00PM-9:00PM (or whenever you crash; if you want to stay overnight, bring a sleeping bag and PJs; shower facilities provided)
- Saturday, June 16, 9:00AM-9:00PM
- (add to your Upcoming calendar)
Where
Bring
- Brain
- Laptop
- Reference books
- Overnight gear (camp inside or on the grounds—just break camp by 8:30AM)
- Games—cards, board games, video (bring a monitor as well)
- Musical instruments (see Diversions)
- Snacks, beverages (do not bring alcohol, legally that has to be provided by FSBC)
- Camera (Flickr tags: becamp, becamp2007)
Organizers
Hosts
Sponsors
Needs
- wireless routers (Steve Stedman providing one DLink DI-624...need 1 more)
power strips and extension cords- (4) projectors (ITC providing at least 2)
- (4) projector screens
- fans, portable A/C unit for main ballroom (other areas are air-conditioned)
- anyone have a digital camcorder and video editing skills?
- (4) audio recorders for podcasting
- dry erase boards (ITC providing at least 1)
- (1) PA system with speakers
Organizers
Volunteers
Campers
(please add yourself along with your email/website to the bottom of this list)
(FORMAT: name+email {t-shirt size} website - comments)
- Steve Stedman {L} http://betech.virginia.edu
- John Loy {?} (a no-personal-website bum)
- Erik Hatcher {L} http://www.lucenebook.com
- Anoop Ranganath {M} http://ranganath.com/~anoop/blog/
- Prasad Sombhatta {?} http://askprasad.wordpress.com/
- Keith Bennett {?} no web site - 80% chance I can make it
- 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 {L} http://reddit.com
- Alexis Ohanian {L} 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 {M} http://www.flyingdogmedia.com/ Love all things web 2.0. Might change my name to Jim 2.0.
- Andrew Sallans {L} no web site
- Steve Johnson {?} http://www.zegiel.com - HTML, Rails, TYPO3, VMware ESX enthusiast
- Trisha Gordon {M} 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 {?} no web site - 80% chance I can make it
- Karen McDowell {?} now Trisha won't be the token female, unless I am the
token dummy. - Michael Conroy {?} http://www.pulsecomiczine.com
- Eric Pugh {L} http://www.opensourceconnections.com - I had such a blast at CITcon, I'm looking forward to more openspaces style meetups.
- Chris Makarsky {L} http://www.chrismakarsky.com - would love to learn more about Ruby/Rails
- Doug Chestnut {?} homeless
- Patrick Kingsley {?} www.seas.virginia.edu - I'd love to get onboard with Rails
- Sam Johnson {?}
- Todd Tweedy {?} www.boldmouth.com
- Matthew Derby {?} derby at d3rby.com
- Rick 2.Reo {?} I love this idea of a technology Woodstock! I'm comin to learn but will try to mashup something for consumption.
- Jamie Orchard-Hays {M} http://blog.dangosaur.us
- Yuji Shinozaki {?}
- Peter Manis {XL} DIGITAL39 - 1 wireless router
- Nick Laiacona {XL} Performant Software - Ruby Jam organizer, interested in JavaFX and declarative UI languages and dialects
- Remi Pelletier{?} www.jsr.vccs.edu - Great idea. I'm looking forward to participating.
- Rob Sterner {L} I'll be there with bells on.
- Bess Sadler {?} http://www.ibiblio.org/bess
- Richard Brewster {?} http://www.pugix.com - Warning - My website is geeky but not software oriented!
- Chris Roberts {?} http://www.people.virginia.edu - token retiree??? - hope to be there post spinal surgery on June 8 - trolling to learn about new technologies
- Mel Riffe {XL} http://jroller.com/page/melriffe
- Leslie Johnston {XL} http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/ http://digitaleccentric.blogspot.com/
- Bruce Qua {XL}
- Scott Stults {?} OpenSource Connections
- Michael Herndon {?} OpenSource Connections
- Jeff Gunther {XXL} Intalgent
- Mike Chapman {?} Intalgent
- Luke Majewski {S} Intalgent
- Lauren McSwain-Starrett {M} - http://www.pamperedchef.biz/LTMS - not a geeky site, but hey, it's mine (will be there Fri night only)
- Haiyong Zhang {M}
- Samuel Baumgardner {XL}
- Peter Schink {L} Blog Age don't know for sure yet, I'm on holiday at the East Coast...
- Waldo Jaquith {L} waldo.jaquith.org, cvillenews.com, Charlottesville Blogs, etc. Can't be there for the whole thing, but hopefully for a good chunk of it.
- Anson Pakrer {m} aladigital.blogspot.com bringing some toys including a 32 port video adaptor...
- Joel Bass joelbass@virginia.edu {L}
- Lee Brunjes - May show up "small" conflict
- Jim Van Fleet {XXL-XXXL} Looking forward to it!
- Alan Rimm-Kaufman {XL} Hope to make it -- rkgblog.com
- Bob Newsome {L} Free plumbing advice. Can bring 6 channel PA amp and acoustic bass. Is is practical to use Java for a logic layer and Drupal(PHP 5) for the web interface? Would Apache SOAP work for this?
- Bill Covert {XL} Yay!
- Aaron Crickenberger {L} Should be fun
- Wendy Repass {s}
- Lauren Walker {M} Intalgent
- Aprotim Sanyal {L} aprotim.com
Regrets
(can't make it, but will be there in spirit)
- John Lloyd - http://JohnWillsLloyd.com/ - I'll only be able to attend virtually, but I want to support the effort.
- David Moody - I won't be there, but beTech Labs will be!
- Michael Strickland - http://www.540mbps.com/ - Lame excuse, but I've got a DDR tournament in Richmond I've been waiting for all year; I'll be there in spirit!
Schedule
Schedule (proposed)
Friday
| 5:00-7:00 | Happy Hour / BeBQ Dinner |
| 7:00-7:30 | Everyone gather for brief (3-word or haiku!) intros |
| 7:30-8:30 | Organize the evening and next day on whiteboard / drink / eat / be merry |
| 8:30-9:30 | Blacklight and Collex presentation/conversation/demos |
| 9:30- | ??? Live music (Jamie?)? Gaming? (Settlers of Catan? Mafia?) |
Saturday
| 8:00-9:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening talk |
| 9:15-10:00 | Session pitches, social time |
| 10:00-10:50 | Session 1 |
| 11:00-11:50 | Session 2 |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:20 | Session 3 |
| 2:30-3:20 | Session 4 |
| 3:30-4:20 | Session 5 |
| 4:30-5:20 | Session 6 |
| 5:30-5:45 | Wrap-up |
| 5:45-8:45 | Dinner and Closing Party |
| 8:45-9:00 | Clean up |
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')
- YUI - John Loy will present the syntax and concepts behind the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Javascript Library and demonstrate how to code some of the most useful YUI components, including Jack Slocum's YUI-EXT components
- Richard Brewster offers to talk on "The Hardest Part of Developing Software," details forthcoming...
- JRuby on Rails - Jeff Gunther could present an overview of JRuby, demonstrate how you can create Rails applications using JRuby, discuss how Java libraries can be used directly within a Rails application, and demonstrate how you can deploy a Rails applications within Apache Tomcat.
- Test Driven Development: Alan Rimm-Kaufman could speak on why TDD is the best thing since sliced bread
Coverage
Media Coverage
beCamp is newsworthy. The following media organizations may be interested, if they only knew. If you have connections, let them know about us. (please add more if we missed)
- C'ville
cvillenews.com (done. thanks Waldo!)- Daily Progress
- The Hook
- UVa News
- WNRN 91.9
Blog Coverage
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Diversions
- The main ballroom has a stage—we encourage y'all to bring your instruments and jam between sessions!
- Beach volleyball court, pool table, air hockey, and more.
- FSBC pools are available for a $9(?) fee during business hours (so we can do this again, please respect that the pools are off-limits at other times).
