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