There is a collection of great Boise Code Camp videos now online. See them here.

What should you watch for sure? Check out these 1, 2 videos of Mark Miller’s session on The Science of a Great UI.

The Code Trip Crew has posted a great and short video documentary of the 2008 Boise Code Camp.

Check it out here.

If you lost something in a little black bag at Code Camp, send me an email and tell me what’s in the bag.

 david at elegantcode dot com

Thank you to everyone who attended, volunteered, helped, presented, and otherwise made Code Camp happen. Most folks are reporting they had a great day and are looking forward to next year!

Our web monkeys are working to get a couple of things up and going this week:

1. Presenter materials. All presenters can send their session materials to us and we will get it up on the site. Send your materials to either me (codecamp at elegantcode.com) or Chris (chris.brandsma at gmail.com). We should see a page up in the next couple of days.
2. A feedback survey. We will get a survey up to gather your feedback about this year’s Code Camp.

Thanks for a great event.

There is a new map of Boise State showing where we can park and where to go for the event itself.

See it here. Thank you, Rob!

The response from the Code Camp speakers last night at the NETDUG speaking tips session was unanimous. Let’s do something different with the schedule! Your wish is my command.

We just posted a new schedule which adds 1 full extra session to the day, for a total of 7 sessions you may attend (3 in the morning, 4 in the afternoon). There are several reasons for this change, including:

1. The new schedule allows us to extend the session times from 50 minutes to a full hour each.
2. We now have 9 concurrent sessions instead of 10, allowing for a 1/10 reduction in stress when trying to choose your course through the day.
3. Presenters will have better opportunities to see other presentations and they get to be attendees, too!

We have room for 5 more presentations in the current rooms at this point. If we continue to receive presentations, we may need to re-institute the 10th room, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Thank you to everyone who is helping make Code Camp even better, and thank you for your patience as we get logistics finalized. The overwhelming response to this year’s Code Camp is fantastic.

The new schedule can be viewed here. Speakers, please double check me to assure your session appears as you expect.

Tonight at the monthly NetDUG meeting, the discussions will focus on effective public speaking and best practices for technical presentations. This is just for you, the presenters for Code Camp.
Jason Mauer, Developer Evangelist from Microsoft, will be flying in to give a talk on presentations and several others will be on hand to help as well.

Bring your presentations thus far and we can help each other get ready. I look forward to seeing you there.

Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Microsoft Campus
500 S 10th St, Boise, ID

If you are interested enough in Boise Code Camp to be watching our feed, you are probably interested enough to also be a member of our Yahoo group.

Entry is easy and unrestricted. Come join us at:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BoiseCodeCamp/

If you are visiting Code Camp from out of town, we have put together a page with some hotel options for you.

http://www.boisecodecamp.org/about/out-of-town-attendees/

 We look forward to meeting you at the events!

Thank you to everyone who attended today’s BCC 2008 planning lunch. We are closing on on the final stretch!

Outstanding issues include some fundamental logistics that we covered today including: Attendee handouts, evaluation forms, green room monitoring and staffing, and similar items.

Funding wise, we are looking like we’ll be in fairly good shape with just a few more corporate sponsorships. If you work for an organization that might be inclined to sponsor code camp and has not yet done so, please stump for us! Materials to hand to your boss, marketing, or HR department are available here and here.

What’s Left to Do

1. Present a Session

We need more speakers! We currently have 38 speakers registered and that is a great start. We are ahead of the curve on the number of speakers registered this time last year, but we are only about half full! Sign up and pass the word on to your friends and coworkers. Information about the benefits of speaking at Code Camp are here.

2. Spread the word!

We have about 130 attendees registered to attend Code Cap so far. This is also a great start and is an improvement on similar numbers in year’s past, but it is time to start a full court press to get the word out about Code Camp. A Code Camp flier is available here for you to print and post on telephone poles, your cubicle, the break room, the school computer labs, and the front door of Starbucks.