beCamp is September 28/29 2012 @ CitySpace, Charlottesville, VA (on Downtown Mall)
Friday 5pm & Saturday 9am. See who is coming and add your name to the list! Contact Ron with questions.
beCamp is Charlottesville's tech meetup of the year. beCamp is...
- a free high-quality participant-driven event, a conference-grade unconference
- for software developers, sysadmins/devops, designers, and business developers
- the place to meet/join Charlottesville's tech community (new? you'll feel welcome!)
- the inspiration of many great meetups throughout the year
- going strong after 6 years of meetups
beCamp is the venue -- you are the agenda! Come Friday night / Saturday day to share, learn, and present topics selected by the crowd.
The Format
The most energizing parts of any tech conference are the discussions in the hallways and between the sessions, and beCamp is an entire event dedicated to this kind of interaction. beCamp is Charlottesville's version of the BarCamp unconference phenomenon—organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees.
Friday Night - socialize, eat/drink, propose topics for Saturday, see/present cool science fair projects
Saturday Day - a full day of user-generated sessions and hallway discussions
The Venue
CitySpace is centrally located on the downtown mall in Charlottesville, with an open layout and several places to hold sessions. We'll have a wireless network, meals, and drinks/coffee. Bring your enthusiasm, a laptop, and some business cards.
The People
logo: becamp-badge_source.ai
Organizers
Volunteers
- Cushing Whitney
- Matt Clark
Sponsors
Sponsor beCamp 2012 (sponsorship opportunities are available!)
Use this wiki to officially register as a camper and, better yet, help enroll sponsors, propose sessions, etc.
Join the beCamp@virginia.edu mailing list at https://lists.virginia.edu/sympa/info/becamp
Campers
We are limited to around 100 people attending this event, so please only signup if you are planning on being there both Friday and Saturday. Last year we had a large number of folks come for the beer and fun on Friday, but not actually to contribute to the conference on Saturday! Some folks were therefore not able to signup.
(please add yourself along with your email/website to the bottom of this list)
(FORMAT: name+email {t-shirt size} website - twitter - comments)
- Ron DuPlain {M} http://www.willowtreeapps.com/
- Jamie Orchard-Hays {L}
- Waldo Jaquith {N/A} http://waldo.jaquith.org/ @waldojaquith
- Josh Mlcoch {M} http://www.willowtreeapps.com/ http://people.virginia.edu/~jrm4ta/
- Cushing Whitney {L} http://www.bitlathe.com/ @koosh_ball
- Stuart Leitch {S} @stuartdleitch
- Kristy Moon {M} @kristylmoon
- Eric Pugh {M} http://www.opensourceconnections.com/ @dep4b
- Owen Zanzal ozanzal@click2mail.com {L} http://click2mail.com @o3design
- Simeon Fitch {XL} http://datamininglab.com/ @metasim "What could we do to make it different this year?"
- Eddie Gotherman {L} @EddieGotherman
- Dale Castle {XL} https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Charlottesville
- Ben Taitelbaum {L} @coshx
- Michael Holroyd {M} http://arqball.com @meekohi
- Andrew Montalenti {M} http://parse.ly @amontalenti
- Kenneth Reitz {XL} http://kennethreitz.com http://heroku.com @kennethreitz
- Bessie Monke {S} http://bessiewrites.com @babymoondrop
- Matt Clark {M} @mattclark5
Regrets (can't make it, but will be there in spirit)
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Lurkers (will be in and out)
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Science Fair Entries
We are doing a "mini science fair" Friday night. Bring anything you want to show off. Robot cars, MythTV, Home Automation?
Schedule (proposed)
Friday
| 3:30-5:00 |
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5:00-6:00
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Happy Hour, tour science fair exhibits |
| 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 / beMerry / Vote for session topics |
| 9:30-??? |
Socializing at South Street |
Saturday
| 9:00-10:00 |
Breakfast and Session Scheduling |
| ROOM-> |
BIG Room |
Board Room |
Lunch Room |
No Name Space |
| 1000-1050 |
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| 1050-1140 |
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| 1140-1230 |
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| 1230-1350 |
Lunch and lightning talks |
| 1350-1440 |
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| 1440-1530 |
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| 1530-1620 |
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| closing session |
beCamp wrap-up |
Topics I'd Like to Hear About
- WebGl
- Augmented Reality
- DevOps
- Javascript alternatives (Dart, Coffeescript, etc.)
- Distributed Teams
Proposed Sessions
Coverage
Photos of the event (live!)
(Link here.)
Media Coverage
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Blog Coverage
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