SilverlightDevCampDC is an upcoming gathering (November 3rd, 2007) in the Washington DC area, inspired by BarCamp, to build Silverlight applications. It's organized by volunteers & Silverlight enthusiasts, with attendance free to all.
Date
November 3rd, 2007
Location
Microsoft's Office in Reston.
Microsoft Corporation
12012 Sunset Hills Rd.
Microsoft Technology Center
Reston, VA 20190
If you don't have a car, here is the bus schedule for Reston http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/connector/pdf/Rt_505_556web.pdf
Sign Up
Registration page is now up: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=121566
Twitter
Follow the DC Metro Silverlight community and SLDC:DC planning with Twitter @ http://twitter.com/SilverlightDC
Facebook Group
Let's get all Web 2.0 and join the Silverlight DevCamp DC Group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6060616406
Tagging
For tagging purposes, the magic word is SilverlightDevCampDC. This will make it easier for us to find pictures, blog posts, and more.
Agenda
All things Silverlight: from way cool animation to serious enterprise deployment strategies; online gaming to software patterns in Silverlight.
All are invited: from Flash gurus to hardcore .NET geeks. It's time for Designers and Developers to unite to create the next generation of Internet user experience.
Here is a first draft of some of the presentations/tracks/forums/ideas I’ve come up with. This is by no means a final list and if you have any ideas, please contact me via my blog. ( http://franksworld.com/blog/contact.aspx )
- Game Develpment in Silverlight
- Real World Silverlight
- Silverlight Zero to Sixty: Learn Silverlight Today
- Reverse Engineering a Silverlight App
- Silverlight vs Flash
- Learning Expression Blend
- Using Silverlight and AJAX
- Silverlight Best Practices
Speakers
If you're interested in speaking, contact me via my blog and I will add you to the schedule.
Moderators
If you're interested in speaking, but you don't feel you have enough experience to speak on Silverlight, perhaps you'd like to moderate an open forum conversation/group learning experience? Let me know if you'd like to participate.
Sponsors
Interested in reaching the Rich Internet Application/Silverlight developer community? We're looking for sponsors for prizes, food, and more. Let me know if you would like to sponsor the event.
Volunteers
Want to help out with the event? We're looking for volunteers to sign people in and act as room monitors. Let me know, if you'd like to help out.
So, What's a BarCamp/DevCamp?
According to the “official” rules, a Barcamp is “an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.”
The basic idea is that the format should be more free form than say, a Code Camp or a TechEd.
It's a type of unconference, "where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance."
However, I would like to have some structure and have a few “pre-defined” presentations with extra time allotted for ad-hoc conversations afterwards as well as some sessions that are group/panel discussions.
To me, the real value of attending an in person event is those few minutes at the end of a session where you can personally ask the presenter questions, talk with fellow attendees, and get insights that don't fit on PowerPoint slides.
In short, I'd like to have an event with some structure, but with plenty of time to interact with the presenters and with the other participants.
