Hello Dick, Is there any chance this will come over to Europe ? Belgium would be perfect ! ;-)
Jan On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 16:04, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way, a recurring theme of the past few roundups has been along > the lines of "if we made a company with the people we have here, how > much ass would that company kick?" :-). I am looking forward to the > flip side of that - if I spent a week coding with people willing to > fly to a town about as isolated as it could be, how much cool code > could be produced? > > Dick > > On May 20, 6:57 am, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > > > I am delighted (oo - came over all Steve Jobs there - delightful!). > > Anyway, I am delighted to announce that you can now sign up for the > > Scala summer programming camp. The link for registration, waiver and a > > whole bunch of information is: > > > > https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/ > > > > Thanks to Bruce Eckel for putting this together. > > > > Right now Scala is the only "formal" camp taking place during this > > week, however there are more slots if people want to self organize - > > say a Flex camp, or a Clojure camp, or a Groovy camp (the last one has > > to have lots of crystals and new-age music :-) ). > > > > A couple of other points about this. > > > > First, it's going to be wicked fun - mountain biking, hiking and other > > outdoors stuff in the mornings, hardcore geekery through the > > afternoons and evenings, and no set format other than that (hell, even > > that is not set, code all the time if you like). > > > > Second, it's cheap, at least the conference is. $200 for the week, > > since we have no idea of the numbers we will get for this first one, > > if we only get a few, attendees may be asked to chip in a few more $$ > > to cover costs, but I think this is unlikely and even if it does > > happen, it will be tens of dollars at the most. More likely is that we > > have have a surplus, and we are going to spend that conscientiously - > > the camp itself is non-profit and will cover costs, nothing more. I > > favor giving any surplus to charity, but rest assured something > > sensible will be done. > > > > It is possible to do the whole thing on quite a tight budget. A few > > hints: flights into Denver and driving from there seem to be a lot > > cheaper than flights into Gunisson (for example, I can get a round > > trip for under $300 with one of the budget airlines, share a rental > > car and you are golden). Also I think Bruce mentioned that staying at > > the mountain resort is inexpensive in the summer if you can't find a > > shared house (shared houses are fun though, so if you can go that > > route, do). > > > > Third, this is not an official posse event! It may be that I am the > > only one there from the posse, although Carl mentioned an interest at > > one point. > > > > With all that said, I think this is going to be tons of fun and if we > > get enough interest we will likely do it again next year. > > > > Information and sign up is at: > > > > https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/ > > > > Thanks, and I hope to see some of you there :-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
