beCamp 2008

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 Come join us for beCamp 2009.

 

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 beCamp 2008 Rocked. Thank you. - EricPugh 

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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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beCamp 2008 beCamp May 2nd-3rd 2008 @ Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC), 501 E. Main Street, Charlottesville, VA (on Downtown Mall) Share the News! Event Details Organizers Campers Schedule Coverage Diversions Presentations

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Event Details

When

• Friday, May 2nd, 5:00PM-9:00PM
• Saturday, May 3rd, 9:00AM-5:00PM
• (add to your Upcoming calendar)

Where

• Charlottesville Business Innovation Council
• 501 East Main Street, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902

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

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Organizers

Hosts

 

 

 

Sponsors

• University of Virginia ITC
• OpenSource Connections—“Automating the Science to Enable the Art”
• Booz  Allen  Hamilton
• Mustache, Inc.
• The Rimm-Kaufman Group
• SNL Financial
• University of Virginia Library

 

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

• Steve Stedman (print and media)
• Eric Pugh (venues)
• Bess Sadler (what needs doing?)
• (your name here?)

 

Volunteers

• RJ Bruneel
• Remi Pelletier (let me know)
• Tom Harmon
• Ashish Tonse
• (your name here?)

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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

1. Steve Stedman {L} http://stedmandesign.com
2. Eric Pugh {L} http://www.opensourceconnections.com
3. Jim Bain {L} http://www.FlyingDogMedia.com (I get the bronze)
4. RJ Bruneel {XL} http://www.opensourceconnections.com
5. Mel Riffe {XL} http://melriffe.wordpress.com
6. Jonelle Kinback {L} Web Communications
7. Doug Chestnut {L} UVa Library
8. Steve Johnson {M} UVa Library
9. John Loy {M} UVa Library
10. Roland Osborne {M} Nethernet.com
11. Jon Maddox {M} Mustacheinc.com
12. Nick Skriloff {L} Darden Solutions
13. Siddharth Dalal {M} Internet Book Database, Procurement
14. Wendy Repass {S} U.Va. Arts & Sciences
15. Ashish Tonse {L} Blog
16. Mark Outten {XL} Madison County Public Schools, Webologie.com and morcast.tv
17. Taylor Davidson {M} http://www.taylordavidson.com & http://www.unstructuredventures.com
18. Caleb Doise {L} QuoteBlizzard
19. Bess Sadler {L} Solvitur Ambulando, UVa Scholars' Lab
20. Chris Hapgood {L} ChrisCruft
21. Arin Sime {2XL} http://www.opensourceconnections.com
22. Nick Laiacona {L} Performant Software Solutions LLC
23. Erik Hatcher {L} http://code4lib.org/erikhatcher
24. Alan Rimm-Kaufman {XL} http://www.rimmkaufman.com
25. Baron Schwartz {L} http://www.xaprb.com
26. John Miller {L} http://www.rimmkaufman.com
27. Attila Szabo {L} http://www.rimmkaufman.com
28. Thomas Steffes {L} http://www.avirsensors.com
29. Waldo Jaquith {N/A} Virginia Quarterly Review
30. Jamie Orchard-Hays {L} http://jamieorc.wordpress.com
31. Keith Bennett {L} http://www.bbsinc.biz, http://keithrbennett.wordpress.com
32. Sean McCord {L} http://citizenmccord.com
33. Jeff Uphoff {M} rPath, Inc. & The Linux Kernel Organization
34. R Redges {M}
35. Anoop Ranganath {M} http://anoop.ranganath.com/
36. Matthew Derby {XXL, at least} Duluth
37. Simeon Fitch {XL} Mustard Seed Software, LLC
38. Jeremy Weiland {XL} [http://jeremyweiland.com]
39. Chris Roberts {M}
40. Andy Bushey {XL}
41. Bob Clewell {L} SNL Financial
42. John Lewis {XL} NTELOS
43. Lee Brunjes {L} UVA Nursing
44. Josh Malone {L} Nat'l Radio Astronomy
45. Ryan Adams {S} Vivus Software - only Saturday now
46. Debra Weiss {N} drw Design
47. Mark Hanson {M} http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mah6s/
48. Arun Thomas {M}
49. Matt Dawson {M} Category4
50. Leslie Johnston {XL} Library of Congress, Digital Eccentric likely Saturday only
51. Bruce Qua {XL} likely Saturday only
52. Michael Buckbee {XL} BuzzwordCompliant
53. Remi Pelletier {XL} Richmond JUG Made it there last year, wouldn't miss it
54. Ahson Wardak {L} My PhD Blogged
55. Debbie Eshenour {S} UVa Library
56. Michael Herndon {L} OSC and amptools.net
57. Bob Newsome {L}
58. Ted Dangerfield {L}
59. Dave Lewis {L} Electric Sheep Company
60. Bethany Nowviskie {XL} UVa Library Scholars' Lab
61. Patrick M. Kingsley {L} UVa School of Engineering AND Applied Science
62. Luc Castera {L} dambalah.com
63. Kyle Redinger {M} deparisredinger.com
64. Doug Ramirez {L} Blue Ridge InternetWorks
65. Deke Shrum {M} [U.Va. Interactive Media Group]
66. Yuji Shinozaki {L} ITC-ATG - can only come to part of it...
67. Erin Mayhood {M} UVa Music Library
68. Rob Casson {L} Miami University Libraries, Oxford, OH
69. Sam Odio {S} BluWiki: Free Wiki Web Host - Can bring a projector!
70. Dave Donohue | OutCast Communications
71. David Engler {L} Darden Solutions
72. Matthew Sposato {XL} OpenSource Connections
73. David Moody {L} UVa Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
74. Todd Tweedy {L} BoldMouth - Social Media Marketing Agency
75. Mike Gibson {XL} The Rimm-Kaufman Group
76. Jodi Schneider {XL} Amherst College Science Library, Amherst, MA
77. Ken Gustafson {L} Ferrum College
78. mir siadaty {XL} relemed search engine
79. Tom Harmon {XXL} Niitek, Sterling, VA
80. Dustin Kenney {M} Orange County Public Schools - probably only Saturday
81. Omar Bohsali {S} personal page Yeah Systems - saturday.
82. jim nist {XL} OpenSource Connections
83. Kris Walker {XL} My root page
84. Ben Cartwright {XL}
85. Rolf Braun {L} Helix Computer Systems
86. Tom Healey {XL} Darden Solutions
87. Derek Bernier {L} http://www.musictoday.com
88. Eric Puffenbarger {L} http://www.musictoday.com
89. Brendan Mathews {L} http://www.sperrymarine.northropgrumman.com
90. Kai Groner {M}
91. Steve Majewski {XL} - tentative Friday; definite Saturday
92. Harper Trow {XL}

 

Regrets

(can't make it, but will be there in spirit)

1. Peter Manis - Wish I could be there!
2. Ray Nedzel has to be out of town.
3. Jeremy Boggs {XXL} ClioWeb, Center for History and New Media - Was going to attend, sorry! Hate to miss it!
4. ivo Brett {} Me2mobile self-service messaging portal
5. Alex Mikhail
6. Chuck Beretz - Was planning on it, but far too many family conflicts on my schedule. Enjoy!
7. Mark A. Matienzo {M} Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics/NYPL Labs, New York Public Library - also intended to come, but got my hands full with an upcoming move and the like
8. Bob Lloyd couldn't make it. Great sessions. Great job pulling this together.

 

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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 Room	Mustache Room	Board Room	Rack Room
10:00-10:50	Unix Command Line & Prod. Tips	MapReduce	Web 3.0	CSS 3 + Unicode
10:50-11:40	My SQL Performance	iPhone Dev	Marketing a Small Biz Online	Choosing Languages for a Project
11:40-12:20	Cloud Computing	JS Design Patterns	Going Out on Your Own	Data Visualization Roundtable
12:20-1:50	Lunch
1:50-2:40	Iron Ruby and other Ruby Frameworks	Mega Storage (PB, not TB)	Raising Capital and Selling a Business	Design for the Design Challenged
2:40-3:30	High Availability Linux	Yahoo JS/ JQuery	Facebook/Open Social/Shindig	Fast Search Engine Design
3:30-4:20	Google App Engine	Adobe Air	Lifehacking / Telecommuting	WTF is GIT?
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
• Conducting a massive OCRing (or any analog->digital) conversion
• OODB-enabled web frameworks (Gemstone et. al.)
• Coworking for telecommuters

 

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 (informal, all code, no slides)
• Keith - Unix Command Line Productivity Tips (see http://www.bbsinc.biz/articles.html )
• 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
• Eric Pugh - I have seen the future, and it's Cloudy!
• Luc Castera - An Introduction to Ramaze: Yet Another Ruby Web App Framework.
• Ahson Wardak - Web 3.0 and/or The Future of Social Networking

 

Whiteboard Suggestions at beCamp

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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:

Simplistic Complexity (find referenced GIT posts here)

Solvitur Ambulando

Digital Eccentric

Xaprb

OpenSource Connections

Technorati tagged becamp2008

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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...

 

 

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Presentations

 

Unix Command Line Productivity Tips PDF

Raising Capital and Selling Your Business.pdf

Presentations on SlideShare

25 Data Visualization Blogs