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 <dickw...@gmail.com> 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 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.
