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.