beTech Presents: beTech
Join beTech next Wednesday, December 19, at 3:00PM to map out the future of beTech. This last beTech session of 2007 also marks the end of my run at the helm of this fine organization. In January my family and I will be moving West.
Three years ago Anna Tubbs and I assembled an open group of enthusiastic Web designers and developers and coined the name beTech—Bleeding Edge TECHnology. The name was a little poke at, among other things, many of the University’s inaccessible table-based layouts and dry, brochure-ware sites in an age of CSS, Ajax, and social software. Our goal, then and now, was to subtly coax the UVa Web experience into the 21st Century—to evolve already. We engaged designers, developers, administrators, and anyone that saw the Web as a fascinating realm of possibilities with powers to change the social fabric of this institution and the World. We merely asked that everyone share whatever knowledge, skills, and inspiration they had and to start building the Web they wanted to work in. We’ve come a long way since then.
Today beTech is a strong and vibrant community with almost 200 members on the mailing list and a blog that is followed on every continent that Google tracks. Our inaugural beCamp brought in over 75 campers from across Grounds, across the region, and across the country. The spinoff WeeCamp series is also proving to be quite popular (a WordPress WeeCamp is in the planning stages). beTech Labs, our virtual Web development environment, is really starting to pick up steam with 8 Labs rolling as we speak. It’s truly been an amazing ride and one that I hope will continue to provide opportunities to others for a long, long time. Thank you all!
So let’s get together next Wednesday, dream up the next chapters of the beTech story, and then figure out how to divvy up the organizational duties. Unfortunately, in leaving I won’t have any ceremonial tarball of Mosaic or disc of FrontPage to lay at the base of the beTech Tim Berners-Lee alter but I will pass along any insider knowledge and username/passwords that I can conjure up. I hope to see you all next Wednesday.
beTech Presents: beTech
- Wednesday, December 19
- 3:00- 4:30PM
- Newcomb Hall 389
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Great to hear you are interested in becoming a member of beTech. Simply complete the mailing list signup form on this page (upper right) and you will get all communication. This community banks its existence on having local meeting in the Charlottesville Virginia area.
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