Sounds brilliant. Wish I could go! On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:06:48 AM UTC+7, secoif wrote: > > Cross-posting (with edits) from > nodejs.au<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/nodejsau> to > ensure I get everyone. If you're in Australia and you're not on the > nodejs.au mailing list, treat this as an example of the type of information > you're potentially missing out on. Join us to mitigate your > risk.<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/nodejsau> > > CampJS is a go! > > http://campjs.com/ > > It will run from Friday October 19th to Monday the 22nd. > > We're holding it at this amazing location <http://www.koonjewarre.com/> in > the Gold Coast hinterland, Australia. Food, beds, beer will all be > provided. Unlimited beer. It will be epic. Here's some pics from the most > recent railscamp we had the same > venue<http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/railscamp/Timeline>, > it was really awesome. We had a different location semi-booked for CampJS, > but we loved this venue so much we decided we simply had to move CampJS > there. > And it was done. > > If you've never been to a camp like this, you're totally missing out. > Basically, everyone just sets up in a space and starts hacking on whatever > they want, or not hacking at all. It's very casual and the idea is to just > do whatever you want. People will give talks, some people with play games, > it's whatever you want it to be. Want to build an app in 72 hours? Do it. > Want to teach people stuff? Do it. Want to learn new stuff? Do it. Want to > just have a good time and talk to a bunch of awesome people over some > drinks? Do it. Man, I look forward to these camp events all year. They kick > the ass off regular conferences simply because you get a chance to > genuinely connect with interesting people and learn something. So good. You > must come. It's the best. > > Anyway, we intend on slightly deviating from the formula of Railscamp by* > *pre-organising* *some hands-on, half-day workshops to be held throughout > the camp. This means people getting together in a room and constructing a > small demo app under the guidance of someone who actually knows what > they're doing. Actually using new technology with someone smart around to > guide you and answer questions should hopefully get many people over that > painful, slow initial hurdle of learning a new technology. > > Examples: > "a simple crud app in express using middleware" or > "a mongo backed, searchable logging tool" > "a custom repl for your application" > "streaming json parser" > or something. > > Anyone who is keen to give a workshop, please either contact me on > twitter<http://twitter.com/secoif>, > apply using this form thingo<http://campjs.wufoo.com/forms/hold-a-workshop/> > or simply reply to this post. I'd love to be able to provide discounted > tickets for anyone giving workshops, but we're still sorting out > sponsorship so that's TBA. Hopefully we can do so! On that note… > > International visitors incredibly welcome. > > If you'd like/love to sponsor CampJS <http://campjs.com/>, please get in > touch with me directly, secoif at gmail and we can fix you up! > > Thanks heaps! > > - Tim Oxley >
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