As many of you know, I authored the web site used here at Code Camp.  When I first wrote it, I was a relative newbie at building web sites in general and specifically using Microsoft’s ASP.NET.  I believe I was running a beta of Visual Studio 2005 at the time.  At any rate, as I add features, I realize I don’t have a group of people I can email and ask for feedback (mostly, stuff like does this work, is it fast enough, are you having problems, etc. 

For now, if you send me an email to service@siliconvalley-codecamp.com and put in the subject “Please Include Me As an SVCC Tester”, I’ll put you on a short list and send you occasional email asking for feedback. 

You are probably wondering what motivates this now (and not in the last 5 years).  We are currently having some scattered issues around logging in and out of the site.  I plan to ask about that in my first email with some more details.

To be honest, I don’t know if I’m going to hear back from 3 of  you or 3000.  If it’s 3000, then you likely won’t hear back from me, but if it’s less than 25, you will all hear from me.

Thanks for your help.

By the way, I did do a series on some of the features built into the web site. That series is at this URL: 

http://peterkellner.net/2008/05/13/codecampwebsiteseries1/

-Peter Kellner

We’ve added links to all our social networks we hook up to on our home page now.  You can see them all now on the right side.  That is, now, you can jump right to our Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn groups directly from our how page.  See the picture for below for where to find them.

We’ve finished our updates on the site so that now you can register yourself and if you want, submit a session.  To do so, go to the Registration tab on the left side of the page (http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Register.aspx) and enter your information.  Since 2008 (2 years ago) we have maintained previous registration so all you have to do is login with your old credentials (of if you forgot, click “forgot password” in the upper right) and follow the directions and tell us which days you plan on attending camp.

There are a few things to notice.

• If you Select “Are you also speaking?”, this servers simply to give you more instructions on the confirmation page.
• If you would like to volunteer to help us, check the box on the bottom and give us your phone number so we can contact you.
• If you need to change your information, you can come back to this any time and update your information.

Last year, we had 145 sessions and well over a thousand attendees.  Let’s see if we can top that this year!!!

Peter Kellner
http://peterkellner.net
Primary SV Code Camp Organizer

After having a very successful 4th year in a row of Silicon Valley Code Camp at Foothill College in Los Altos, we are pleased to announce that Version 5 has a confirmed date of October 9th and 10th, 2010 for the next Code Camp!  Last year, we had 145 Sessions, Over 1000 people on Saturday and about 700 on Sunday.  This year, we have at least as much space and plan on using it again.

Mark you calendars now for this great event.  Again, it’s will be a 100% volunteer event.  Speakers donate their time, as well as the organizing committee and all the volunteers that make the event run smoothly.

We have not updated the web site for registration and speaker sign up, but hopefully, that will be done soon and we’ll send an email as well as update the RSS feed.

See you in 185 days!

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

(2009 Silicon Valley Code Camp Lunch Line, 400 pizzas, 250 sandwiches were served)

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