beCamp 2008
Update! I've confirmed with CBIC that we can use their offices Friday and Saturday, and they have wifi, ethernet, and kitchen - EricPugh
beCamp May 2nd-3rd 2008 @ Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC), 501 E. Main Street, Charlottesville, VA (on Downtown Mall)
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.
This year we are using CBIC's offices, on the downtown mall, underneath the parking garage. We'll have a large room that can hold all 100 of us, as well as 4 or 5 break out rooms for the individual sessions. wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet
We provide the venues, the wireless, the projectors, the food, da beer—you show up to teach, learn, and participate.
Each attendee should talk about something or volunteer (registration, set-up, teardown, etc.). We will suggest and pick the sessions which will be picked by the attendees Friday evening. For example, if lots of people want to hear about Google's OpenSocial, 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 excited about technology as you are.
Register Here!
Use this wiki to officially 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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Use the becamp tag for your blog posts and photos (see who's already blogging).
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...or take our logo and have your way with it (create more badges, flyers, etc.): becamp-2008.ai
Event Details
When
Where
Bring
- Brain
- Laptop
- Reference books
- Games—cards, board games, Legos, video (bring a monitor as well)
- Snacks, beverages
- Camera (Flickr tags: beCamp, beCamp2008, BarCamp)
- Business cards
Organizers
Hosts
Charlottesville Business Innovation Council
Sponsors
Sponsor beCamp 2008 (sponsorship opportunities are available!)
Needs (prioritized)
| *Needs* | *How Many* | *Who is bringing* |
| Projectors | 4 | Mark Outten (4) - NRAO (2) |
| Screens (the bigger the better) | 4 | NRAO (1) - Josh Malone (1) |
| Sticky page Flip Charts | | SNL Financial & Avenue.org |
| Big sticky note cards to write session ideas on | | SNL Financial & Avenue.org |
| power strips and extension cords | lots | Josh Malone (NRAO) |
| PA system with speakers | 1 | Mark Outten |
| network printer + paper | | |
| dry erase boards + pens | 2 | John Loy |
| wireless routers | 2 | Josh Malone & NRAO |
| wireless routers | 1-2 | Keith Bennett |
| duct tape | | |
More detailed list is on Sponsor beCamp 2008 page
Organizers
Volunteers
Campers
We are limited to 100 people attending this event, so please only signup if you can make both Friday and Saturday
(please add yourself along with your email/website to the bottom of this list)
(FORMAT: name+email {t-shirt size} website - comments)
The password/wiki invite is c4mp
- Steve Stedman {L} http://stedmandesign.com
- Eric Pugh {L} http://www.opensourceconnections.com
- Jim Bain {L} http://www.FlyingDogMedia.com (I get the bronze)
- RJ Bruneel {XL} http://www.opensourceconnections.com
- Mel Riffe {XL} http://melriffe.wordpress.com
- Jonelle Kinback {L} Web Communications
- Doug Chestnut {L} UVa Library
- Steve Johnson {M} UVa Library
- John Loy {M} UVa Library
- Roland Osborne {M} Nethernet.com
- Jon Maddox {M} Mustacheinc.com
- Nick Skriloff {L} Darden Solutions
- Siddharth Dalal {M} Internet Book Database, Procurement
- Wendy Repass {S} U.Va. Arts & Sciences
- Ashish Tonse {L} Blog
- Mark Outten {XL} Madison County Public Schools, Webologie.com and morcast.tv
- Taylor Davidson {M} http://www.taylordavidson.com & http://www.unstructuredventures.com
- Caleb Doise {L} QuoteBlizzard
- Bess Sadler {L} Solvitur Ambulando, UVa Scholars' Lab
- Chris Hapgood {L} ChrisCruft
- Arin Sime {2XL} http://www.opensourceconnections.com
- Nick Laiacona {L} Performant Software Solutions LLC
- Erik Hatcher {L} http://code4lib.org/erikhatcher
- Alan Rimm-Kaufman {XL} http://www.rimmkaufman.com
- Baron Schwartz {L} http://www.xaprb.com
- John Miller {L} http://www.rimmkaufman.com
- Attila Szabo {L} http://www.rimmkaufman.com
- Thomas Steffes {L} http://www.avirsensors.com
- Waldo Jaquith {N/A} http://www.vqronline.org
- Jamie Orchard-Hays {L} http://jamieorc.wordpress.com
- Keith Bennett {L} http://www.bbsinc.biz, http://keithrbennett.wordpress.com
- Sean McCord {L} http://citizenmccord.com
- Jeff Uphoff {M} rPath, Inc. & The Linux Kernel Organization
- R Redges {M}
- Anoop Ranganath {M} http://anoop.ranganath.com/
- Matthew Derby {XXL, at least} Duluth
- Simeon Fitch {XL} Mustard Seed Software, LLC
- Jeremy Weiland {XL} [http://jeremyweiland.com]
- Chris Roberts {M}
- Andy Bushey {XL}
- Chuck Beretz {M} http://www.beretz.com/
- Bob Clewell {L} SNL Financial
- John Lewis {XL} NTELOS
- Lee Brunjes {L} UVA Nursing
- Josh Malone {L} Nat'l Radio Astronomy
- Ryan Adams {S} Vivus Software
- Debra Weiss {N} drw Design
- Mark Hanson {M} http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mah6s/
- Arun Thomas {M}
- Matt Dawson {M} Category4
- Leslie Johnston {XL} Digital Eccentric likely Saturday only
- Bruce Qua {XL} likely Saturday only
- Michael Buckbee {XL} BuzzwordCompliant
- Remi Pelletier {XL} Richmond JUG Made it there last year, wouldn't miss it
- Ahson Wardak {L} My PhD Blogged
- Alex Mikhail {XXL}
- Debbie Eshenour {S} UVa Library
- Michael Herndon {L} OSC and amptools.net
- Bob Newsome {L}
- Ted Dangerfield {L}
- Dave Lewis {L} Electric Sheep Company
- Bethany Nowviskie {XL} UVa Library Scholars' Lab
- Patrick M. Kingsley {L} UVa School of Engineering AND Applied Science
- Luc Castera {L} dambalah.com
- Kyle Redinger {M} deparisredinger.com
- Doug Ramirez {L} Blue Ridge InternetWorks
- Deke Shrum {M} [U.Va. Interactive Media Group]
- Yuji Shinozaki {L} ITC-ATG - can only come to part of it...
- Bob Lloyd {L} []
- Erin Mayhood {M} UVa Music Library
- Rob Casson {L} Miami University Libraries, Oxford, OH
- Sam Odio {S} BluWiki: Free Wiki Web Host - Can bring a projector!
- Dave Donohue | OutCast Communications
- David Engler {L} Darden Solutions
- Matthew Sposato {XL} OpenSource Connections
- David Moody {L} UVa Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
- Todd Tweedy {L} BoldMouth - Social Media Marketing Agency
- Mike Gibson {XL} The Rimm-Kaufman Group
- Mark A. Matienzo {M} Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics/NYPL Labs, New York Public Library
- Jodi Schneider {XL} Amherst College Science Library, Amherst, MA
- Ken Gustafson {L} Ferrum College
- mir siadaty {XL} relemed search engine
- Tom Harmon {XXL} Niitek, Sterling, VA
- Dustin Kenney {M} Orange County Public Schools - probably only Saturday
- Omar Bohsali {S} personal page Yeah Systems - saturday.
Regrets
(can't make it, but will be there in spirit)
- Peter Manis - Wish I could be there!
- Ray Nedzel has to be out of town.
- Jeremy Boggs {XXL} ClioWeb, Center for History and New Media - Was going to attend, sorry! Hate to miss it!
- ivo Brett {} Me2mobile self-service messaging portal
Schedule
Schedule (proposed)
Friday, May 2nd
| 5:00-6:00 | Happy Hour |
| 6:00-6:30 | Everyone gather for brief (3-word or haiku!) intros |
| 6:30-7:30 | Propose session topics |
| 7:30-9:30 | Eat / Drink / Be Merry / Vote for session topics |
| 9:30-??? | Socializing at South Street |
Saturday, May 3rd
| 9:00-10:00 | Breakfast and Session Scheduling |
| ROOM-> | BIG 1 | BIG 2 | SMALL 1 | SMALL 2 |
| 10:00-10:50 | | | | |
| 10:50-11:40 | | | | |
| 11:40-12:20 | | | | |
| 12:20-1:50 | Lunch |
| 1:50-2:40 | | | | |
| 2:40-3:30 | | | | |
| 3:30-4:20 | | | | |
| 4:20-5:00 | Wrap Up + Cleanup |
| 5:00-??? | South Street Brewery? |
Topics I'd Like to Hear About
- Yahoo Pipes
- OpenSocial!
- Trust on the Internet
- Web 3.0? What will it be
- iPhone stuff!
- Facebook App Development, Open Social, General Social Networking Development
- Citizen Journalism in our community
- Cloud Computing
- Concurrent Programming / Erlang
- Parallel Computing / Hadoop
- Google AppEngine
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Android and the future of mobile computing
- Microformats
- Arduino Hacking (Have a soldering party?)
- Groovy/Grails -any
- DBDeploy -database DDL versioning
- Continuous integration -Hudson, Cruise Control, ...
- Selenium -web tier testing (from Thoughtworks)
- IPhone/ITouch applications
- Portable computing platforms - what's cool?, what stinks?
- Semantic Web - Practical explanations...
- FOAF
- Trust networks with semantic web
- Visualization tools
- CSS3 and Webkit CSS extensions
Proposed Sessions
- Ashish - Developing Google App Engine and/or Facebook apps
- Michael - Windows Presentation Foundation / Silverlight / Linq
- Michael - Iron Ruby, DLR (using ruby to build windows forms/ silverlight apps)
- Caleb - strategies and tips for writing and/or debugging multithreaded rich client applications in C#
- Caleb - QuoteBlizzard - an open-source C#-based stock/forex trading simulator
- Mark O. - Live Audio and Video production using ustream.tv or mogulus.tv (or others); need someone with video cam on their cell phone to help me with Qik.com
- Bess - Internet Archive and Open Library Web Services
- Erik - Solr/Lucene/Search
- Erik's kids - OLPC (one laptop per child) XO station. Bring your XO's, let's mesh!
- Eric Pugh - HighTechCville - What would you like to see in the next version?
- Keith - Writing a Minimal Java Swing App in JRuby and Groovy
- Keith - Unix Command Line Productivity Tips (see http://www.bbsinc.biz/articles.html )
- Chuck Beretz - Getting business intelligence out of your unstructured content.
- Josh Malone - I can always run my big mouth about sysadmin-type stuff (logical volumes, backup, nagios system monitoring, etc.)
- Kyle Redinger - Planning your capital raises (Angel or Venture)
- Kyle Redinger - Planning for an acquisition or other exit strategy
- Dave Donohue - Getting media/blogger coverage for a tech startup
- Mark O. - Twitter
- Mark O. - Animoto
Whiteboard Suggestions at beCamp
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)
- cVillain has kindly agreed to run a banner ad for us!
Blog Coverage
If you're blogging about beCamp, add your blog below:
Solvitur Ambulando
Diversions
- Thinking about doing a "mini science fair".. Last year we had examples of a mini mill in action, anything you want to show.. Robot cars, MythTV etc...
