Ruby DCamp is around the corner, and Youssef will be representing OSC at the event.

The event details are:

What: Ruby DCamp
When: Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 09:00 am to Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 05:30 pm
Where: Holiday Inn, Arlington
4610 Fairfax Dr
Arlington, VA 22203

For more event details, visit the event page: http://rubydcamp.eventbrite.com.

Hope to see you there!

Stuarts Draft High School is launching their new event called: “Lunch with Future Leaders” and we have been invited to spend some time with the students to discuss with them our careers and the paths we took to get to where we currently are. This is a great opportunity for us to show our passion for what we do and give some insight to students who are trying to make important decisions about their future. As a community focused company we value events like this that allow us to interact with young people who will soon become the bright minds of the future.

Eric and Youssef will be having lunch with the students at Stuarts Draft High School on Tuesday, October 14, 12pm – 1pm.

Below is one of the news releases sent out by the school:

Stuarts Draft High School is launching “Lunch with Future Leaders”, an opportunity for young professionals to promote job skills and career pathways.  Once a month over lunch in the high school cafeteria, the featured guest and a group of students will be able to discuss educational foundations, the joys and challenges of a particular career, and job-specific knowledge necessary for achieving the students’ plans for their future. The first guest will be Sam Rasoul, candidate for the United States 6th Congressional District on Spetember 18th. Anticipated future guests will include local individuals in their 20’s and 30’s from a variety of interesting fields and professions. The core idea behind “Lunch with Future Leaders” is to allow students the opportunity to learn first-hand about the varieties of careers available and how to reach their potential in a chosen field.  The featured professionals will also benefit from hearing about the next generation’s ambitions and enjoy the chance to display how their own dreams have come to fruition.  Questions about this program can be directed to SDHS Principal, Donna Abernathy, or program sponsors Jonathan Kern, Government teacher, and Jenny Gardner, Career Coach.

I’ll be presenting HighTechCville to the Neon Guild next Monday, September 15.

I’ve been looking forward to this for months because most of the people information in HighTechCville comes from the Neon Guild public membership database. My initial success in finding Communities of Interest came about by looking at the over 200 people in the Neon Guild and finding 8 folks who were all technical writer folks! I would never have guess that there are enough people in the Neon Guild who do technical writing to do a group dinner together!

See you’all there!

Here are directions from Debra Weiss:

Location:
Inova Solutions
110 Avon Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Directions from downtown Cville:
Take Market Street E to Ninth/Avon St, turn right.
Go over the bridge, get in the left lane.
Look for Spudnuts on the left.
Turn Left at Spudnuts, and then another immediate left.
Follow around, you’ll see a large brick building. That’s Inova.
Go around to the front of the building and park.
Take the elevator to the second floor. We’re in the café.

On August 6, 2008, Jason Hull will be presenting at the AAAE NextGen Airport Conference and Expo. He will cover how airports can use their websites as marketing tools to passengers, airlines, and general aviation. He will discuss the case study of the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport website and the AeroWeb product and cover best practices of websites throughout the industry.

More information can be found here.

Slides of my presentation are available here.

This Thursday, July 17th 2008, the Charlottesville .NET User Group will meet from 6:30-8:30PM. Kevin Hazzard will present “Accessing Web Services from Silverlight 2 Beta 2″. The meeting will be held at the SNL Galactic Headquarters: 1 SNL Plaza, Charlottesville, VA 22902 (map).

Come join Eric Pugh and other local and regional Scrum practitioners for drinks and dinner where
we’ll hash out real world issues that face Scrum Teams. We’ll be talking about what made us start using Scrum, the cultural challenges we’ve had, and how we measure our results. We’ll share some
stories about wins and losses since we last met in May 2007!

Please RSVP to epugh@opensourceconnections.com so I can make sure we have an appropriate sized room at West Main.

When: July 24th from 5:30 to 8 PM
Where: West Main Restaurant http://tinyurl.com/5kdphs
Who: Anyone who is using Scrum, thinking about Scrum, or quit using Scrum!
Help: Eric @ 434-466-1467

Today, OpenSource Connections announced the launch of AeroWeb, the airport content management system, available at http://www.aerowebonline.com. Based on the success of our initial AeroWeb platform client, the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport Authority, http://www.gocho.com, we are commercializing the platform by which airports can manage their public facing websites.

AeroWeb delivers powerful features like up-to-date flight tracking, inline web editing of content, airfare deals, and flight booking—all in an easy-to-maintain and flexible architecture. It includes features such as inline page editing, flight tracking, booking and reservation engines, and airport blogs and news aggregators. Most airport websites are staid and not interactive; AeroWeb changes that and puts the airport customer at the front of the line.

We will be demonstrating AeroWeb at the American Association of Airport Executives annual conference in New Orleans from June 8 - 11. Come check us out there, or go to the website, http://www.aerowebonline.com, for more details.

beCamp 2008 is almost here! May 2nd and 3rd is just two weeks away!

If you’re a geek in or around the Charlottesville metroplex or even if you’re merely tech-curious, this is the event you don’t want to miss. beCamp is Charlottesville’s version of the BarCamp unconference phenomenon—organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees. Realizing that the most energizing parts of any tech conference are the ad hoc conversations that take place in the hallways between the sessions, beCamp facilitates these types of interactions for an entire event.
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