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 javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
