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!