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
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
- (something to do with kittens and a sandbox)
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
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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
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Managing CSS/JS on Large Sites
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Indi Game Development
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Functional vs. Procedural Languages
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11:30-12:20
Amazon Web Services, Facebook Platform, REST/APIs
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How We Understand What to Build
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JS Library Smackdown
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Subversion Release Management
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12:30-1:50
Lunch (Sticks Kabob Shop > thanks Intalgent!)
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Future of C'ville Tech Community
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2:00-2:50
Amazon Web Services, Facebook Platform, REST/APIs (continued)
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Animation
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Flex/Action Script
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Reputation on the Net
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3:00-3:50
Scaling Rails
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Web Standards/Accessibility
SMS Gateways
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Agile Methods...
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4:00-4:50
JRuby
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How to Screen Scrape
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Google Maps/Earth API
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CSS Ninja
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5:00-5:50
Building Online Community
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Grails
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Web Design for the Design Challenged
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What's after Ajax
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6:00-6:30
Wrap-up
Clean Up
Ideas for Next beCamp
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Comments and/or Quotes to Help Promote Next beCamp
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