[CodeCamp] Once again it was successful!

Another CodeCamp, another success!

Again this year we’ve organized a great event with the help of our speakers and contributors. The fact that this time around it was not a full house (we had only up to 30 visitors) gave us a great chance to intensify the discussions and conversations which turned up to be great.

The day

We’ve started on Saturday at about 09.30 and were finished with sessions by 19 hours (imagine that, almost 10 hours of technical talks and discussions!) after which we’ve closed the event with a raffle in which we gave 11 prizes to attendees (almost every second attendee or presenter got a book or a license for some great product).

Attendees

Over the course of the day we had some 30 attendees and as the day were ending that number varied on some ~25 people. At first we were a little bit disappointed that about 50 people registered and only a little bit more than half showed up, but as the day progressed this turned up to give us a better chance to engage in discussions and talks.

From the demographic point of view, this year all speakers were from different parts of Croatia, and we had members of the community come in mostly from Zagreb, Osijek and Split.

Contributors

This year our contributor list has grown even larger, these are all the companies without which help we probably could not organize this good event.

We had divided the contributors in three categories, Gold, Silver and Bronze or Swag ones:

Gold contributors being Microsoft and INETA

Silver contributors being RedGate

Bronze or Swag ones Telerik, DevExpress, Ekobit and Perpetuum Mobile, Microsoft Innovation Center Varaždin

Because of the great help from our contributors, we were able to organize a big raffle at the end of the event, handling out 1 SQL Compare license donated by RedGate, 1 voucher for any Microsoft Innovation Center Varaždin course which lasts 1 or 2 days, 2 bundle developer licenses of RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting donated by Telerik, 2 licenses for CodeRush + Refactor Pro donated by Devexpress, 2 licenses for TeamCompanion for Outlook and 1 one license for Test Manger for Team edition for Software Developers donated by Ekobit and 2 licenses for Report Sharp Shooter donated by Perpetuum Software.
 

People

I would like to thank the people who have helped me organize this with their efforts:

From the community: Tomislav Bronzin

From Microsoft: Marin Mamić, Marko Drenovački and MIC team

And our speakers: Tomislav Bronzin, Andreaj Radinger, Dean Vitner, Josip Šaban, Marko Čulo and Bernard Katić

Thank you all, without you – it could not have been done!

Recordings and materials from the sessions

With the help of Marko Drenovački and Microsoft Innovation Center Team we were able to organize the recording of sessions with Live Meeting. We have videos of each session and when we get the materials from the speakers we will publish it live on our website and thus making It possible to re-view the sessions again or listen to them if you’ve missed them (like I did as I was running around taking care of operational things… can’t wait to see the videos)

Pictures

Pictures are already available at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vladanstrigo/sets/72157608227020050/

Final thoughts… I am very proud I was a part of this; hope you’ve had a great time like I did… see you next year!

Cheers!