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beCamp 2010 is April 30 & May 1st

Posted by: Eric Pugh on 03/31/2010

beCamp 2010 is almost here! April 30th and May 1st are just four weeks away!

If you’re a geek in or around the Charlottesville metroplex or even if you’re merely tech-curious, this is the event you don’t want to miss. A beCamp is Charlottesville’s version of the BarCamp unconference phenomenon, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. Realizing that the most energizing parts of any tech conference are the ad hoc conversations that take place in the hallways between the sessions, beCamp facilitates these types of interactions for an entire event.

As of this writing, we are at 87 campers! To participate, just add your name to the wiki page!

A big thank you to all our sponsors, including at this point, Hotelicopter, Google, Perrin Quarles and Associates, NRAO, and University of Virginia ITC. Interested in supporting the Cville tech community? Check out our needs at http://barcamp.org/sponsor-beCamp-2010.

Eric Pugh's complete blog can be found at: http://www.opensourceconnections.com/author/epugh/

About Eric Pugh

Fascinated by the “craft” of software development, Eric Pugh has been heavily involved in the open source world as a developer, committer, and user for the past 5 years. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and lately has been mulling over how we move from the read/write web to the read/write/share web.

In biotech, financial services and defense IT, he has helped European and American companies develop coherent strategies for embracing open source software. As a speaker he has advocated the advantages of Agile practices in software development.

Eric became involved in Solr when he submitted the patch SOLR-284 for Parsing Rich Document types such as PDF and MS Office formats that became the single most popular patch as measured by votes! The patch was subsequently cleaned up and enhanced by three other individuals, demonstrating the power of the Free/Open Source Model to build great code collaboratively. SOLR-284 was eventually refactored into Solr Cell as part of Solr version 1.4.

Eric co-authored "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server", the first book on Solr.

He blogs at http://www.opensourceconnections.com/blog/.

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