Ottawa IT Camp Organization
Charles Wiebe
Time to start using the distribution list again, which means that Ottawa IT Camp planning has officially started!
Right now, responsibilities are:
· Charles Wiebe: Sponsorships
· ????: Speakers – I talked to Peter Henry and he said ok.
· John Marshall: Facilities, Food
Last year, we were a bit late posting agenda. In response to that, I will be adding automation to the website, where prospective speakers enter their information. That way we minimize the copying, reposting, yada-yada.
Wrt a survey, there are a couple of ways to approach it.
A. Keep questions short and generic.
B. Make questions specific.
I am leaning to making the survey questions specific. .e.g.
Choose five topics that you would like presented at IT Camp: (Then for each topic, plus an other option)
- Show checkbox with topic name and radio buttons for level 100, 200 and 300.
We probably need to group the topics by dev, sql, it pro.
Comments?.......Charlie
From: John Marshall Visio MVP [mailto:lanc...@magma.ca]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:54 AM
To: 'Peter Ritchie'
Cc: 'Charles Wiebe'; 'Joel Hebert'; 'Colin Melia'; 'Peter Henry'
Subject: RE: potential OttITCamp tracks/topics
Since the venue is offered for free, we have to wait until the start of the term to see what faculty want first. Richard will be talking to them in January to try and get a date as late as possible so we will have the most lead time possible. Other than the food costs, I do not think the IT Camp would be viable without a free venue.
John…
From: Peter Ritchie [mailto:peterrit...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:12 AM
To: peterrit...@gmail.com
Cc: Charles Wiebe; Joel Hebert; John Marshall; Colin Melia; Peter Henry
Subject: Re: potential OttITCamp tracks/topics
Hmm, on a slightly different topic... I've had a couple of potential sponsors ask about dates. Have we finalized a date?
Anyone in particular heading up sponsorships?
Cheers -- Peter
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Peter Ritchie <peterrit...@gmail.com> wrote:
To add some clarification...
I talked to several people who had been to almost all the code camps until the last one to find out why they didn't attend. The overwhelming responses was "nothing applied to what I do". The last code camp was heavy on very specific technology (Windows Phone specifically, there was really 1 web session, 1 cloud session, and the rest was almost all Windows Phone and IT) really nothing for the past "Code Camp" attendee.
So, last night I proposed a developer fundamentals track that would basically interest anyone writing code. While there's talk of putting MVVM in there; I hope that that would be focused on patterns (i.e. comparing MVVM to MVP to MVC, like the session Eric De Carufel gave at the UG meeting).
Cheers --- Peter
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Peter Henry <peter...@pchenry.com> wrote:
Hi Charlie, there seems to be quite a bit of OttITCamp interest already! People were talking about it afterwards and they were also saying, like you, focusing back on the fundamentals is a great idea.
Here are some ideas for tracks and sessions which came out of our discussion tonight. In order of what's on my white board... :>
XAML/.NET = Blend, Data, MVVM, WP7, Threading, XAML, Windows 8
Fundamentals = Automated builds, Source control, Unit testing, Refactoring, Agile/Scrum, Visual Studio/Express Basics/Tips, Linq, Azure for Devs, Data Access
Web = HTML5, Security, JQuery, WebMatrix, Azure
SQL = Security, Stored Procs, Entiry Frameworks, SSIS
IT = XP to Win7/8, Windows 8 Server, PowerShell
Ok, there are obviously too many sessions for some tracks and not enough for others, but these are just some people throwing out some ideas about possible topics of interest and there was a lot of interest tonight! You mentioned about doing a survey in the coming weeks, that's fantastic! I'm anxious to see/read what we get out of that!
Take it easy and have a good weekend.
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Ahmed Al-Asaad
in and I will help out.
Would it be useful to have "Other" and a textbox in case they are
interested in a none listed topic? I love the level option
Cheers
Ahmed
On Dec 2, 1:32 pm, "Charles Wiebe" <CWi...@TrackerRealm.com> wrote:
> Time to start using the distribution list again, which means that Ottawa IT
> Camp planning has officially started!
>
> Right now, responsibilities are:
>
> . Charles Wiebe: Sponsorships
>
> . ????: Speakers - I talked to Peter Henry and he said ok.
>
> . John Marshall: Facilities, Food
>
> Last year, we were a bit late posting agenda. In response to that, I will
> be adding automation to the website, where prospective speakers enter their
> information. That way we minimize the copying, reposting, yada-yada.
>
> Wrt a survey, there are a couple of ways to approach it.
>
> A. Keep questions short and generic.
>
> B. Make questions specific.
>
> I am leaning to making the survey questions specific. .e.g.
>
> Choose five topics that you would like presented at IT Camp: (Then for each
> topic, plus an other option)
>
> - Show checkbox with topic name and radio buttons for level 100,
> 200 and 300.
>
> We probably need to group the topics by dev, sql, it pro.
>
> Comments?.......Charlie
>
> From: John Marshall Visio MVP [mailto:lancu...@magma.ca]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:54 AM
> To: 'Peter Ritchie'
> Cc: 'Charles Wiebe'; 'Joel Hebert'; 'Colin Melia'; 'Peter Henry'
> Subject: RE: potential OttITCamp tracks/topics
>
> Since the venue is offered for free, we have to wait until the start of the
> term to see what faculty want first. Richard will be talking to them in
> January to try and get a date as late as possible so we will have the most
> lead time possible. Other than the food costs, I do not think the IT Camp
> would be viable without a free venue.
>
> John.
>
> From: Peter Ritchie [mailto:peterritchie....@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:12 AM
> To: peterritchie....@gmail.com
> Cc: Charles Wiebe; Joel Hebert; John Marshall; Colin Melia; Peter Henry
> Subject: Re: potential OttITCamp tracks/topics
>
> Hmm, on a slightly different topic... I've had a couple of potential
> sponsors ask about dates. Have we finalized a date?
>
> Anyone in particular heading up sponsorships?
>
> Cheers -- Peter
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Peter Ritchie <peterritchie....@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> To add some clarification...
>
> I talked to several people who had been to almost all the code camps until
> the last one to find out why they didn't attend. The overwhelming responses
> was "nothing applied to what I do". The last code camp was heavy on very
> specific technology (Windows Phone specifically, there was really 1 web
> session, 1 cloud session, and the rest was almost all Windows Phone and IT)
> really nothing for the past "Code Camp" attendee.
>
> So, last night I proposed a developer fundamentals track that would
> basically interest anyone writing code. While there's talk of putting MVVM
> in there; I hope that that would be focused on patterns (i.e. comparing MVVM
> to MVP to MVC, like the session Eric De Carufel gave at the UG meeting).
>
> Cheers --- Peter
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Peter Henry <peter.he...@pchenry.com>