beCamp 2007 Recap
Wow! That was amazing! Thanks to our brilliant, creative, and collaborative campers and to our awesome sponsors, beCamp 2007 far exceeded everyone's expectations. This HAS to happen again.
In the meantime, let's try to recapture a bit of the magic that happened at Fry's Spring for posterity and to keep the conversations rolling.
Friday
5:00-8:00
Happy Hour / BeBQ Dinner (Pig Daddy BBQ + beers/ciders > thanks OpenSource Connections!)
8:00-8:30
Everyone gather for brief (3-word or haiku!) intros
Memorable 3-word'ers or haiku's
8:30-9:00
Organize the evening and next day on whiteboard / drink / eat / beMerry
9:00-9:45
Blacklight and Collex presentation/conversation/demos
9:45-1:30
Live music by The Indeterminants (The Finest in Appalachian Surf!) + Wendy and the Wii
Saturday
8:00-9:30
Breakfast (Bodos and Starbucks > thanks ALTERthought!) and Networking
9:30-10:20
Session pitches, choose, organize sessions
10:30-11:20
Ruby on Rails
Managing CSS/JS on Large Sites
Indi Game Development
Functional vs. Procedural Languages
11:30-12:20
Amazon Web Services, Facebook Platform, REST/APIs
How We Understand What to Build
JS Library Smackdown
Subversion Release Management
12:30-1:50
Lunch (Sticks Kabob Shop > thanks Intalgent!)
Future of C'ville Tech Community
2:00-2:50
Amazon Web Services, Facebook Platform, REST/APIs (continued)
Animation
Flex/Action Script
Reputation on the Net
3:00-3:50
Scaling Rails
Web Standards/Accessibility
SMS Gateways
Agile Methods...
4:00-4:50
JRuby
How to Screen Scrape
Google Maps/Earth API
CSS Ninja
5:00-5:50
Building Online Community
Grails
Web Design for the Design Challenged
What's after Ajax
6:00-6:30
Wrap-up
Clean Up
Ideas for Next beCamp
Comments and/or Quotes to Help Promote Next beCamp
