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.