News – Silicon Valley Code Camp

We Need Volunteers for Silicon Valley Code Camp On October 8th and 9th!

Posted by Peter Kellner on September 22, 2011 @ 10:09 PM

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.

Our procedure this year for volunteering is the same as last year (but not previous years). If you want to volunteer, you need to update your registration page to let us know that at http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Register.aspx (assuming you have not done that already).

This registration page requires you to check the box at the bottom to volunteer, as well as put a contact mobile phone number that we can reach you on at the event itself. Then, after you have updated your registration, go to this page: http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/VolunteerForJob.aspx and pick the job(s) you are interested in doing.

Most of the jobs are 1 hour with a 15 minute overlap to train the next volunteer. A few jobs are longer 1.5 hours. We’d really appreciate volunteers who can handle 2 slots (back-to-back on Registration, which would effectively be about 2 hours)

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

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Raise your rates by becoming an influencer

Posted by David Spark on @ 10:32 AM

Every time you work on an application you’re showcasing your work. But if you work on a large collaborative project, how can someone see what contributions you made? How do people know that your development talent is better than someone else’s? You can prove your worth by exposing your knowledge and wisdom. The more you’re publicly seen as an expert, the more you become an industry influencer, and as a result you can and will raise your rates.

Please register for my Silicon Valley Code Camp session “How to become an online influencer” on Saturday, October 8th at 3:30pm. Watch the video below for an outline of what you’ll learn. And to get a head start on the class, read my Mashable article, “HOW TO: Jump-Start Your Career by Becoming an Online Influencer.”

I look forward to seeing you there.

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Just Sent A Reminder To All Unregistered folks (who have registered before) that they need to Register!

Posted by Peter Kellner on @ 10:03 AM

Our records show that you are not registered for code camp this year on October 8th and 9th at Foothill College, and that you’ve registered in the past. We’ve got over 200 sessions up now and would love to get you registered. Click the URL below and register! We may have to restrict registration this year so sign up now before we close. Click on the link below, mark (check) which day(s) you will attend, then press the update button. It’s free and it’s soon!

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

Then, Checkout all our sessions (all scheduled now).

If you would not like to continue to receive emails, click on the above link and mark that on your registration page or simply reply to this message with unsubscribe in the subject.

Finally, and most important, Spread the Word! I can’t emphasize that enough. We get the greatest speakers in the world because you all come to hear them. Tell your co-workers, post code camp on your internal web site, stand on a corner with a sign! Whatever works, just please spread the word. You can also get some SEO love back from us from your post about code camp. Read about that here: http://blog.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/2011/09/22/get-a-link-from-silicon-valley-code-camps-web-site-back-to-you/

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

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Get A Link From Silicon Valley Code Camp’s Web Site Back to You!

Posted by Peter Kellner on @ 12:15 AM

All you need to do is create a good little blog post, write a short paragraph on some meetup or forum, or even post to some newsfeed, and if you get more than three people clicking that link and coming back to the Silicon Valley Code Camp Web site, you can get a link posted back to your home page. It’s that easy!

For details, read the post here: http://peterkellner.net/2011/09/21/boost-your-seo-and-promote-silicon-valley-code-camp-at-the-same-time/

Of, if you’d prefer to just watch, here is a youtube video that explains it:

And if you think you just know what to do and don’t any directions, you can start here: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/ReferralUrlLinks.aspx

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Session Plan To Attend Chart Now Available! (See Video Below)

Posted by David Spark on September 21, 2011 @ 6:23 AM

This video shows how to choose sessions you plan on attending. It will help you with a nice listing to carry with you (once you print it) as well as help us to plan the room capacities. That helps us to not put our most popular sessions in the smallest rooms.

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

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Full Agenda Live on the site now! Over 200 Sessions, 9 time Slots

Posted by Peter Kellner on September 16, 2011 @ 5:55 PM

We have an awesome group of speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds presenting this year. Our topics range from Douglas Crockford, for the 6th year in a row presenting the latest and greatest on JavaScript, Oracle’s latest technology including Java, MySql and TimesTen, Microsoft Latest Windows 8 Metro Application Building with presenters direct from Redmond, all the way to a full career track and patent lawyers talking software! With 210 sessions this year it feels almost overwhelming.

The schedule is live and ready for you to pick the sessions you plan on attending. Keep in mind that now, by default you just see the first Saturday Session when you land on the page. The Navigator at the top of the page lets you look at one time slot at a time. You then pick just the session you plan on attending (and of course you must be logged into your account to select sessions)

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

A common question we often get before and during code camp is "What happened to session.". Well, now we have all the answers in one place. As the schedule changes (for any reason) we are keeping a log page of those changes here. http://blog.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/session-change-log/

That’s it for now.

Peter Kellner

Silicon Valley Code Camp Primary Coordinator http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/

http://peterkellner.net/

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First of 5 Tracks Posted to the SVCC site, MOBILE!

Posted by Peter Kellner on September 6, 2011 @ 10:10 AM

We’ve posted our first of five tracks this year. Simply titled "Mobile" and curated by Falafel Software. This track includes one of the most popular sessions titled "The Current State of the Union in Mobile Development" from Lino Tadros, CEO of Falafel. Falafel is the maker of EventBoard, the mobile platform that drives our Silicon Valley Code Camp Mobile application on all three major smart phone platforms, IOS, Android and Windows 7. Another top session is from Lance Bullock on iPhone Development. Many of you may remember Lance’s packed session last year at code camp when we had issues with air conditioning. Over 200 people stayed (including Lance!).

If you have not been back for to the site for a while, please come back and check out our almost 180 sessions as well as the Mobile track. You can find the Mobile track at the url: http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Track2011-Mobile . You can quickly sort through all the sessions at code camp as well as click on column headers to sort by visiting the url: http://blog.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/2011/06/11/a-new-page-for-showing-interest-in-sessions-and-counts-up/

Silicon Valley Code Camp is just around the corner! Besides announcing more tracks over the next few days, we will be also putting up the volunteer page again. Keep an eye out for that so if you can help, you make sure you pick the time and job that you are best at.

See you all soon

Peter Kellner

Silicon Valley Code Camp Coordinator

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com

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Silicon Valley Code Camp Volunteer Job Meeting Notes

Posted by David Spark on August 17, 2011 @ 12:59 PM

Last night, Tuesday, August 16th, we had our first volunteer meeting. It was a great chance to talk to 50 or so people about our upcoming code camp. We went over all the volunteer jobs that are available both before and after the event, as well as had a good general Q&A session about code camp in general

One thing that came up was when can people sign up for the jobs at code camp. The answer is about 2 weeks before the event. What we will do is send out a mailing, post on this blog, twitter and facebook that signing up for volunteer jobs is now open. That means, you can come to our site and choose which job(s) and when you want to volunteer. Spots are on a first come first pick basis so if you want a particular job, you need to run (not walk) to the site and pick your favorite job. Whether that is Registration help or Lunch cleanup, they all fill up pretty quickly so make it a fast dash.

Finally, I just want to mentiont he benefits of volunteering

Satisfaction in helping make this free attendee event the best it can be
Meet lots of interseting people
Admission to BBQ Saturday night including Vegetarian meals as well as Andy’s BBQ

To get an idea of what jobs are available, take a look at this screen shot of what you will see when coming to the site (once we open up volunteering). This just shows Saturday, but there are Sunday job also to help with.

volunteer signup page

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SV Code Camp Volunteer Meeting, Tuesday August 16th in Los Altos At Foothill College

Posted by Peter Kellner on August 11, 2011 @ 7:44 PM

A big part of our 5 successful years of Silicon Valley Code Camps has been our enthusiastic volunteers. Last year, for example we had over 200 volunteers, most helping for just a couple hours on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Without these volunteers, well, all I can say is entropy meets chaos.

On Tuesday evening, August 16th at 6PM (in Los Altos, more information to follow) we will have a general meeting for all volunteers who want to come (attendance not required to volunteer at camp). The details (and signup) are at the following URL:

http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/VolunteerMeeting.aspx

Looking forward to seeing you there! Just 67 days until camp.

Peter Kellner

Silicon Valley Code Camp Primary Coordinator

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

http://peterkellner.net/

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A New Page For Showing Interest In Sessions And Counts Up!

Posted by Peter Kellner on June 11, 2011 @ 7:21 AM

Come check out the new Sessions Interest Chart. Using Sencha’s charting toolkit, we put together a new page that let’s you easily see all of this years sessions and mark which ones you are interested in attending. Here is what my page looks like with the sessions I’m interested in.

There are several interesting features of this page that I’ve pointed to by arrows.

1) You can always quickly get to this page by press the hyperlink on the left top called “Sessions Interest Chart”

2) Assuming you are logged in, you can tell what sessions you have expressed interest in by seeing the little green circle on the left of each session

3) The columns are sortable by clicking on them (including the little column with the green circle of interest)

4) If you are interested in going to a session, you can click the button next to the speakers picture to express that intent (you need to go to the normal sessions page to remove your interest if you change your mind)

This page really serve to very important purposes. First, it let’s you easily navigate sessions and see what is coming to code camp (even by how many days since the session was submitted so you can see the new ones easily). Second, it helps us know what you are interested in so we can allocate code camp resources appropriately and make sure we track important sessions.

For those wondering how we built this, we basically modified one of the samples from the Sencha Library (ExtJS 4.0). The FormDashboard example. It’s amazing how simple something like this is to put together. If you want to see the details, we actually put the source Javascript code right in the page so simply view source will take you right there.

For those that want to see the code right away, I’ll paste it below.

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