Just one day before Code Camp, Sprint has signed up to be a Gold sponsor.  Sprint is one of the leading producers of high technology phones and we are glad to have them.  They are currently ramping up for their 2009 Sprint Open Developer Conference October 26-28 here in silicon valley.  They plan on raffling off three free passes to this event at our Sunday raffle.  If you don’t win, and still want to go, they will have some representatives at camp answer questions.  Below is their formal announcement. 

Join Sprint and key industry leaders at the 2009 Sprint Open Developer Conference Oct. 26 – 28 in Santa Clara, CA. Learn directly from Sprint, HTC, Palm, RIM/Blackberry, Microsoft, Clearwire and many others on the latest development platforms, products, 4G capabilities, M2M / Embedded solutions. Earn free devices from HTC, RIM, Sprint and Clearwire at the conference to aid in your development. Register 2 at $350 and get a 3^rd registration for FREE! Space is limited – don’t miss out.

With just one day until Code Camp, things are really coming together; at last count, we have 146 presentations and 1629 registered attendees! Registration starts at 8:00 AM Saturday morning. Parking Lot #4 is paid for by our sponsors so you do not need to pay $2.  All other parking at Foothill requires a fee. Follow the signs to the registration desk to pick-up your name badge and Saturday Lunch ticket.

A map of both the campus and the classrooms is located here http://www.foothill.edu/news/mainmaps.html Also, please remember that the beltway around Foothill College is one-way so if you pass us, keep going around the circle and come back.

We will have printed copies of the schedule, but you can help us out by printing the following PDF files, which contain the session schedules for both Saturday & Sunday to bring with you.

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/misc/siliconvalley-codecamp-saturday.pdf
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/misc/siliconvalley-codecamp-sunday.pdf
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/misc/siliconvalley-codecamp-tracks.pdf

All the same information is available on the full web site at http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com.  Please remember to provide feedback after each session by visiting the Sessions Page on the web site and choosing Session Evaluation on the lower right of each session description.

See you Very Soon!

Tammy Baker
2nd Assistant Coordinator
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tammybaker

For any important announcements during camp, you can always check the camp twitter feed:

http://twitter.com/sv_code_camp

For those of you tweeting at camp, please use the #svcc hash tag on your tweets. If you do post something through any other channel about camp online, please also tag your content with the "svcc" tag. For all camp attendees, we have created a Silicon Valley Code Camp 2009 event on SlideShare that you can join here:

http://j.mp/svcc-slides

If you are speaking this weekend, please post your slides on SlideShare and associate your slides with our event. It would also be a good idea to take advantage of the wiki page associated with each session to include a link to your slides there too.

That's All Folks,

Van Riper

http://www.google.com/profiles/van.riper

Silicon Valley Code Camp Assistant Coordinator

September 27, 2009 Contact: Peter Kellner

service@siliconvalley-codecamp.com

Summer is over, and the kids are back from camp. Now, it’s time for people looking for a career tune-up in this troubled economy to go to camp. Silicon Valley Code Camp (www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com) is a free – yes, free – weekend conference October 3 and 4, 2009, for all software developers who want to share information, network, and learn new skills.

Code Camp is a new type of all-volunteer “community event” where developers learn from fellow developers. This is the fourth year for Code Camp, and its popularity continues to grow. More than 1,200 people have registered so far, and almost 150 sessions are scheduled.

The location for this Saturday-Sunday meeting remains the same: Foothill College in Los Altos, Calif. And everything is free – from registration to coffee and lunch.

Sessions at Code Camp range from informal “chalk talks” to formal presentations, and the speakers are mixed, from experts used to sharing their knowledge to people with a unique skill they’ve never shared before. Each session lasts 60 minutes.

Many presenters put their material on the Code Camp wiki to share. All of the material is community-developed by and for fellow developers. Among the 75+ topics this year are:

Ø Cloud Computing including discussions from Microsoft, Amazon and other leading vendors

Ø Application building for Google’s Android phone

Ø Windows Mobile Development

Ø iPhone Application design

Ø Security As A Service

Ø Asynchronous Web Services

Ø How to Develop with Oracle Fusion Middleware on Amazon EC2

Ø JavaScript, The Good Parts and Town meeting

Code Camp is not a Microsoft, open source, or Java event. It is a Silicon Valley developer community event. Everyone is welcome to present as long as the material fits the Code Camp guidelines. That is, it must be about code, and it can’t be a direct advertisement for a product or service.

Peter Kellner, one of the Code Camp organizers, became an independent software consultant after founding Kellner Systems and later selling it to a big insurance company. He said, “Code Camp can help you learn a new skill, meet new people, solve a problem you may be having, or just meet up with old and new friends.”

The sponsors of Code Camp range from big companies like LinkedIn, Oracle, Google, and Microsoft to smaller firms like Falafel Software in Capitola, Calif., a computer consulting and training firm, and a big thanks goes to Foothill College, of course, for hosting the event. None of the sponsors will be pushing anything at attendees, and it is not a technology exhibition, but there will be a Platinum Sponsor display area. What makes Code Camp work is the community of developers coming together to share their knowledge and expertise.

For more information or to register for the event simply go to the website: www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com.

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Hello Code-Campers,

For those of you that don’t know me, I’m Dave Nielsen, co-founder and primary organizer of CloudCamp.  Over the past 15 months I've worked with regional organizers around the world to put on 43 CloudCamp unconferences for the purpose of helping developers, admins and entrepreneurs explore the emerging opportunities involving Cloud Computing technologies.  And as local here in Mountain View, I've participated as a presenter and volunteer at Silicon Valley Code Camp for the past 3 years. So it seemed natural to me that we might bring these two exciting events together on the same day. After discussing the idea with the SVCC crew, we decided to integrate CloudCamp within the Silicon Valley Code Camp schedule. So I am pleased to announce that CloudCamp will be hosted within Code Camp at 9:15am on Sunday.

So what happens at CloudCamp? First and foremost, CloudCamp is a real-time unconference where the audience decides what we talk about. At the end of the morning introduction "YOU" will be able to propose sessions on any topic related to Cloud Computing that you are interested in.  I always propose a session for beginners called "Intro to Cloud Computing" where I promise to answer all of your Cloud Computing questions. Of course this always a challenge, and for some answers I may ask for a little help from the audience. But it is always an entertaining and educational session. Hopefully, with a little help from you, many other sessions will be proposed, such as "What is different about a Cloud Computing app?"; and "How do I scale my data in the cloud?; and "What is Hadoop?".

The following is the agenda for CloudCamp @ Code Camp. I hope you will at least join us at 9:15am Sunday for the morning session and help make CloudCamp @ Code Camp an dynamic and educational experience.

CloudCamp Schedule: 10/4/2009 at 9:15am

#  9:15am: CloudCamp Begins
#  9:30am: Lightning Talks
# 10:00am: Organize Unconference
# 10:30am: Breakout Sessions: Round 1 - Including "Intro to Cloud Computing"
#  1:00pm: Breakout Sessions: Round 2
#  2:15pm: Breakout Sessions: Round 3
#  3:30pm: CloudCamp Wrap-up Session

Note: It is important that you attend the 9:15am Sunday session to propose a topic for this breakout sessions throughout the day.

Let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to discussing all aspects of Cloud Computing technologies with you.

Best,
Dave Nielsen
Co-founder, CloudCamp
http://www.cloudcamp.com/?page_id=1292

Oracle Brings “Oracle Fusion Middleware Track” to Camp

Oracle, one of our Platinum sponsors has put together a very interesting track on development around their Fusion Middleware Track.  The sessions in this track can be seen in detail at the following URL:

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx?track=2

Our schedule is not quite ready yet, but the plan is to have all the sessions below scheduled in way that they an attendee could go to them all.  The order also is made such that it would make sense to go to them in order.  The order will be as follows:

• Asynchronous Web Services
• Which Web App Stack is Best?
• Deep Diagnostics of Production JVMs using Oracle AD4J
• Developing Java EE Applications with Eclipse and WTP: Looking ahead to Helios
• Introduction to Oracle ADF
• Ajax Enabled JSF - Oracle ADF Faces Primer
• Security As A Service
• How to Develop with Oracle Fusion Middleware on Amazon EC2
• Top 10 Productivity Tools for Java Developers on Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3

Hope you can make it to some or all of the sessions.  It’s great to see a company like Oracle contribute both sponsorship and gray matter to the community here.

A while back I asked speakers to send me links to blog posts about their sessions.  Below are the links they sent me.  Without further discussion, here they are.

http://blog.arungupta.me/2009/09/java-ee-6-glassfish-eclipse-dynamic-languages-web-frameworks-at-silicon-valley-code-camp-2009/

http://jamesdowney.net/blog/post/Silicon-Valley-Code-Camp.aspx

http://blog.falafel.com/2009/08/31/FalafelIsSpeakingAtSiliconValleyCodeCampOct3rdAmp4th2009.aspx

http://www.mpaolini.com/code-camp?utm_source=email&utm_medium=code-camp&utm_campaign=Speaker

http://www.mpaolini.com/code-camp?utm_source=email&utm_medium=code-camp&utm_campaign=Speaker

http://briccetti.blogspot.com/2009/05/silicon-valley-code-camp-2009-my.html

http://nameawards.com/page/2/

http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2009/08/27/come-to-silicon-valley-code-camp-october-3rd-4th.aspx

We are just finalizing rooms at Foothill College and plan on publishing our final schedule one week from tomorrow (September 28th).  We've got 139 Session to schedule covering a very broad technology space.  We try very hard to keep sessions from overlapping that attendees will want to go to, but of course, with such a large overlap, we do the best we can.  Once we publish our schedule, we will invite you to come back to the session list and check the radio box under the session saying you plan on attending.  The reason the radio box is disabled now is because we want to make sure we know which sessions people plan on attending (when multiple sessions happen at the same time).  The year, at every time slot, we expect to have at least 12 sessions running concurrently.  You will only be able to attend one at each session.

This year, for the first time, we have session tracks.  The idea behind tracks is that we as the organizers work with a track lead or expert in that track to identify groups of sessions that make sense to attend (possibly in a specific order with no overlap). Then, a paragraph is written to define the track theme and a special landing page is made for that track so users can see them all together along with their schedule times.  Several people have asked what is the difference between tracks and the existing tag cloud.  The difference is that Cloud Tags are totally made up and assigned by the session presenter.  The tracks are meant to have a higher level of consistency.  Here is a URL to all our tracks:  http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Tracks.aspx

Also, all sessions are not tracked which does not reflect at all on the speaker or content.  It's just an experiment for us this year.  We welcome the feedback to let us know how well it works.

Looking forward to a great event in just 12 days!

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SVCC needs your help.  This year's event is bigger and better than ever and we need more helping hands to make things run smoothly.  Volunteering has so many benefits, the chance to meet and work with others like you, that feeling of goodness knowing you are contributing to an all-volunteer technology event, plus you're invited to attend the speaker appreciation dinner on Saturday and you'll get a cool T-shirt.  All this for just a couple hours of your time.

Please sign up on our wiki:
http://codecamp.pbworks.com/CodeCampSiliconValleyVolunteers09

If you have any questions, please email me at
volunteer@siliconvalley-codecamp.com (or simply reply to this email).

Fletcher

This past Thursday evening, my wife Tammy and I went to visit our first platinum sponsor of 2009, Falafel Software in Capitola California.  Lino Tadros, Chairman and CEO of Falafel let us use his office for normal working during the day, then we all went out for a great Sushi meal after.  Falafel provides high qualtiy software development, consulting and training.  We had the chance to see where it all happens.

Thanks for hosting!

Lino at the Falafel Office

At Gayles Deli in Capitola California (by the beach)

Just a quick post to extend our thanks to all three of these companies (Oracle, Microsoft and Falafel) for having the confidence in us to be Platinum Sponsors. Oracle and Falafel for the first time this year a this level, and Microsoft, going on 4 years as a Platinum sponsor of Silicon Valley Code Camp.

We now have over 300 people registered and 57 sessions up. It's looking like we are heading towards another great year at Code Camp at Foothill College. See you there!

4th Annual Silicon Valley Code Camp Comes Again!  Saturday and Sunday, October 3rd and 4th, 2009 at Foothill College

Foothill College has once again graciously offered there space to us for Silicon Valley Code Camp.   Last year, we had 120 sessions and about 750 of the 1500 people who registered show up.  By all accounts, it was a smashing success!

Our slogan, "By and For the Developer" continues to live strong.  Everyone at code camp, whether as a presenter, attendee, organizers or volunteer are there because they want to be.  It's a 100% volunteer function that works because of the generosity of the community.

So, if you can speak at code camp, please submit a session after you register.  If you can help, please go to the Volunteer page in our wiki and sign up for that.  If you just want to come and learn, register now and stay tuned to this page for updates.

Also, the big change this year is that from here on out you will not need to re-register every year.  Just log in with your credentials from last year, go to the registration page and click the orange button saying you plan on attending.  Originally, Silicon Valley Code Camp was planned as a one time deal, but this being the fourth, likely there will be a fifth.  It took me a while to realize that.

Looking forward to another great year!

Yours in Camping,
Peter Kellner, http://peterkellner.net
Silicon Valley Code Camp Coordinator

Last year, the folks who make Wireshark hosted their event at Foothill College just as we do for Silicon Valley Code Camp. This year, they having their second annual event at Stanford.

This morning we had a mis-communication with one of our speakers and so at 9:15, our first session of the morning, we had 25 people and no speaker. On of the attendess came to registration to let me know that their was no speaker in their Web Testing Session.

Don Robbins, who is an agile wizard and based on that also a testing expert, happened to be standing next to me and said "Hey, I can give a shot at leading that session if you want". So, down to the room we walked. I introduced Don to the group, he then introduced himself to the people in the room and volunteered to lead a facilitated discusson. They all enthusiastically said yes and as I write this, Don's is leading away!

Thank you Don for stepping up!!!

Thanks for everyone's help yesterday. It looks like with about 1400 people registered, we had about our usual 50% attendance this year. It was great to see everyone! Just a quick reminder that we will be having our raffle during lunch today. As you come out of the lunch line, make sure you get your raffle ticket. You can see the prizes here:

Here are some pictures to enjoy. http://codecamp.pbwiki.com/Raffle+Prizes+2008?SearchFor=raffle&sp=1

Code Camp is going great!!! Quick note to let everyone know Paul King is doing his Groovy session (and 3 others) Sunday. He did not make his airline connection so he had to cancel his AM presentation today. I had to tell the people and they all asked for it to be rescheduled, so here it is.

Also, both parking lots 4 and 5 are paid for by our sponsors so no need to pay the $2 today Saturday, or tomorrow.

Thanks for everyone's support, things are going great!

Scott Stanfield (President of Vertigo) tells me that bringing the Microsoft Surface Computer to Code Camp is like moving the space shuttle from the hangar to launch.  Definitely stop by and see it in the Platinum Sponsor room 4223.  Here is what it looks like once it has touched down.

Please follow our twitter feed for any last minute camp updates:

http://twitter.com/sv_code_camp

Please tag your own tweets with "#svcc" to be included in our community feed:

http://tinyurl.com/svcctw

Vertigo, a Platinum Sponsor, will be bringing a Surface PC to Code Camp for demos in our Platinum sponsor room 4223 on Saturday only.  As many of your know, Vertigo builds some great software on cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. Because of this relationship, Vertigo has one of these Microsoft units and will be bringing it to show. Vertigo will have short code-focused demos throughout the day; stop by the room for a schedule.

In fact, we will be accepting Lightning Talks right up until these sessions start. We will do as many of these short 5 minute talks/demos as we have time for during each Lightning Talk session. Although you are not required to signup in advance, your doing so will help with the turnout for these sessions. To insure the largest possible audience for your talk/demo, please signup on the wiki in advance of camp. Also, the advance signups will be going first in the order that they are submitted until we run out of time. Any last minute additions will go last, time permitting. So, you can guarantee your spot to present during these sessions by signing up early.

The first session is on Saturday at 1:45pm. The wiki page for this session where you can signup is here:

http://codecamp.pbwiki.com/LightningTalks-DayOne2008

The second session is on Sunday at 1:15pm. The wiki page for this session where you can signup is here:

http://codecamp.pbwiki.com/LightningTalks-DayTwo2008

If you have questions or need help adding your talk to either of these sessions on the wiki, you can contact me.

Thanks, Van

Michael "Van" Riper

Come checkout the Website!  We have 110 Sessions covering all kinds of very cool technologies.  Foothill College has again generously given us the use of many class rooms this weekend.  Sessions covering .Net, Java, Ruby, Python, Security, Web Services, Architecture  are just a few of the many topics covered.  If you click on the URL below, it will automatically log you into your account so that you can select classes you are planning on attending.  Please do this.  It will help us allocate and prepare classrooms better for everyone.  You will only be able to select one session for any give time slot.  You can view your selections on the Sessions Overview page. This is different than what you did previously in saying you were interested in a session, now you are saying you plan on attending. You can change these choices as often as you like.

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx

Also, please update your profile at the next URL to confirm for us what days you plan on attending as well as any other pertinent information (such as whether you can make it to the Microsoft sponsored Barbeque Saturday Night).

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ProfileInfoAccount.aspx

We really could use more volunteers on our team to help out.  We need help with setup, teardown, as well as needing ambassadors to just help out during the days with all the sessions.  If you can spend some time helping us, go to the Wiki page ( http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Volunteer.aspx ) and add your name.  Your help will be appreciated by all.

That is it for now.  See you this weekend!

Peter Kellner
http://PeterKellner.net
Silicon Valley Code Camp Coordinator

Keep on eye on this blog for an annoucement of our schedule. We have gone several rounds with the speakers and we plan on having all 107 sessions scheduled by Wednesday night!

Have you ever met an impressive somebody at a developer event? Have you had a hard time finding him/her because you lost or did get the contact info? How much bandwidth do you have to go through the pile of business cards you end up with every time?

Stop doing it the old-fashion way and join the newly created LinkedIn Group "Silicon Valley Code Camp 2008". This group is meant to be a discussion hub for the community organizers, the speakers, and the attendees of the Silicon Valley Code Camp. It will help them find each other, get connected, and communicate. Don't be a social outcast and join the community. Code Camp by Developer for Developers...

For those that are interested in submitting a session to Code Camp, please do it by October 16th. We plan on closing the submission page then and publishing a schedule shortly there after

See you at Camp!

We are using Twitter to send out short text updates (AKA "tweets") before and during Silicon Valley Code Camp this year. Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch using the web, your phone, or IM. Current twitter users are encouraged to start following our sv_code_camp Twitter account. If you are not a twitter user yet, please consider joining to start receiving camp updates:

http://twitter.com/sv_code_camp

Once you are logged into your own twitter account, you can start following our camp tweets by visiting the sv_code_camp Twitter page above and clicking the follow button. That is all there is to it.

As a past registrant for our event, I wanted to make sure you don't miss our latest rendition of Silicon Valley Code Camp, as always at Foothill College on November 8th and 9th.  With 47 days until camp starts, things are really heating up.  We've got 77 Sessions already signed up with some of the biggest names in the Valley. 

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx

Douglas Crockfort will be returning for a third time to deliver 2 talks Saturday morning on JavaScript, The Good Parts.  Microsoft will be in full attendance to show off technology that's only rumored to be coming available soon, Sun will be showing it's technologies, and Oracle as well.  Many open source projects will be shown as well including Ruby, Scala, Python, PHP and many others.

As always, this is an all volunteer event put on by the developer community for the developer community.  We do have lots of sponsors including Platinum sponsors Microsoft, Vertigo and Linked In.  Our plan is to offer lunches both days as well as a barbeque Saturday night. 

So, if you have not registered, please do it now!  The event will not be as good without you.  Looking forward to seeing you at Code Camp

Here is the URL to register:  http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Register.aspx

Peter Kellner
http://peterkellner.net
Code Camp Coordinator

It's a little early too start counting the days until code camp (63 days) but I have to say I'm hugely impressed with how things are moving along.  We've got 65 excellent sessions posted and more coming in almost daily.  Sponsors are lining up which means we will likely have a Saturday Barbeque this year just like we did the first year.  Thanks for everyone's support on this.

Since you signed up, there are likely lots of new session listed.  It would be helpful if you come back to the site (this URL:  http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx?PKID={PKID}) and click the box below each session you are interested in.  Also, if you could help us spread the word by letting your developer friends know about our event as well as put a link on your blog or companies internal blog letting as many developers know.  We have a convenient link builder on our web site at the URL: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/SpreadTheWord.aspx.

And finally, we are in the starting phases of putting a contest together to build the best Silicon Valley Code Camp Mashup.  The idea will be that we would like you to build an application that will let code camp attendees and non-attendees log into the code camp database and help them organize their session schedules.  Years past, we've had lots of suggestions to improve our session organization tools (kind of a victim of our own success here).  The plan is to expose a bunch of service API's that you can program to and let users better organize their schedules.  If you are interested, please reply back and we can work together to formalize the contest.

That's it for now!  Thanks for helping make Code Camp a success.

Peter Kellner
http://peterkellner.net
Code Camp Coordinator

PS:  thanks to MOSSO (See Link on Left side of Web Page) for letting us move Code Camp to their Hosted Web Farm.  Lot's of changes have been made to make the web site Web Farm Compatible so if you notice anything strange (ok, stranger than usual), please let me know.

Time for Code Camp Again!  Saturday and Sunday, November 8th and 9th at Foothill College

We got a face lift but don't be confused by the new web site.  It's still the same event as the past two years.  Uday Gajendar, one of our speakers (and design/UI professional) designed our new look.  I think you'll agree it's a major improvement.  Foothill College has once again graciously offered there space to us for Silicon Valley Code Camp. 

In 2006 we had 55 sessions, in 2007 we had 75 sessions, let's see if we can top that in 2008.  As always, the emphasis at Code Camp will be code.  Our slogan, "By and For the Developer" continues to live strong.  Everyone at code camp, whether as a presenter, attendee, organizers or volunteer are there because they want to be.  It's a 100% volunteer function that works because of the generosity of the community.

So, if you can speak at code camp, please submit a session after you register.  If you can help, please go to the Volunteer page in our wiki and sign up for that.  If you just want to come and learn, register now and stay tuned to this page for updates.

Looking forward to another great year!

Yours in Camping,
Peter Kellner, http://peterkellner.net
Silicon Valley Code Camp Coordinator

PS:  We are just starting to look for Sponsors.  If you know of any potential sponsors, or are interested yourself, please look at our sponsors page.  We really appreciated the support and with so many developers attending, the exposure you will get to this community will be awesome.