Blog » jQuery Camp 2008 Announced
Posted June 26th, 2008 by ReyBangoThe jQuery Team is pleased to announce the second annual jQuery Camp! jQuery Camp 2008 will be held on Sunday, Sept. 28, the day before The Ajax Experience, in Boston, MA (location TBA).
Last year, over 100 jQuery developers gathered for a full day of jQuery sessions, which included talks from such big names as jQuery creator John Resig and other core team members, as well as talks from expert users exploring new and exciting jQuery projects. It brought together the largest group of jQuery Core Team members ever assembled, and gave users the opportunity to pick their brains and pitch new ideas.
The event was a *clear* success, and this year’s camp promises to be even better.
jQuery Camp 2008 will offer two tracks, providing both introductory and advanced sessions, covering a variety of topics. Ajax development, mashups, security and the recently released jQuery UI component and effects library are just some of the topics already lined up.
jQuery Camp 2008 will charge a nominal fee of $50 per person, which will include lunch. Attendees need NOT be registered for The Ajax Experience to attend. Registration will open in July; keep an eye on jQuery.com for more details!
For those attending The Ajax Experience, show organizers have recently announced a half-day time slot for additional jQuery sessions, on September 29th at the conference center. The agenda is still up in the air, but we’re thinking of offering a “Dream Team Code Review” session, where users can have code reviewed by members of the jQuery team. We’re interested in your feedback; would you attend this session?
jQuery Camp 2008 is a truly fantastic opportunity to learn from the jQuery team and socialize with top jQuery developers; we’re looking forward to meeting everyone!
See you all in September.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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June 26th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Sad, no interest in getting sponsors to make the event free for participants?
June 26th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Too bad I won’t be on US until October! Have fun guys, code like Rey Bango (mad
June 26th, 2008 at 11:03 am
@Paul: We tried that last year and we still ended up coming out of pocket for some expenses. For an OSS project, it’s certainly not fair for any team member to have to do that. The $50 cost is very reasonable especially for the level of expertise that will be presenting.
With that said, we’re still going to try to line up sponsors to add additional value to the event but we don’t want to rely on that and not be able to give a fantastic learning experience for everyone.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I dig it. Thanks for the reply, Rey.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I’m there!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I am there with my big foam hand that says #1.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Do we have the hours yet? I’d like to pitch this to my boss. With it being on Sunday I don’t think it should be a problem with work, but I’d also like to look at getting there.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
@Andy: Not yet but this will be an all day event, just like last year.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Is there plans for one in the bay area?
June 26th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
@Travis: None at the moment
June 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I wish to be there, flying from Europe to Boston is very difficult for developers from other countries but no matter what I’ll try!
June 29th, 2008 at 9:58 am
OK… I am scheduled to be at CFDevCon IN the UK the days before that and will be flying back. I wonder if there is a way to make both of them. I would love to speak on CF/jQuery integration also.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Would you get this streamed?
I m nowhere near the US and not planing to go either.
It might be a good excuse to meet a few heads here and discuss
July 6th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Does anyone know if there are going to be any videos of this available? The mountain west ruby conference was videotaped and made available online for attendees that could not make it. Considering the price of fuel these days I would gladly pay more for material if I can avoid some travel.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:27 am
Where do we sign up for this?
August 1st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
hmm.. thank you very much. usefull information
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 am
Where do we send the $50. Is this still on?
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Cool. It took almost a day to find this info. Thanks! Good job.
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Cool. It took almost a day to find this info. Thanks, great job.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I love your blog…really. Did you already hear about water on mars?
August 8th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Really looking forward to it this year.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:35 am
[…] Registration for jQuery Conference 2008 is officially open. Register now to ensure your spot! As announced, this one-day conference will be held in Boston on Sunday, September 28, and will feature two tracks of presentations (beginner and advanced) from jQuery project members and a few special guest speakers. A registration fee of $50 will help cover the cost of the venue, as well as food, beverages, and T-shirts for all attendees. […]
August 15th, 2008 at 9:04 am
The 28th is the last baseball game of the season - Red Sox vs Yankees. Our Boston fan brains just won’t let us do anything else that day, unfortunately. It’s truly a disease.
However, I’d be glad to pay to have access to video of the sessions. Any chance you folks could pull that off?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:27 am
see you guys there!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
+1 “for one in the bay area”
August 15th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Signed up and looking forward to it!
Joe Alba: I’m a Sox fan myself, but I’m pretty sure you’ll have a better time of finding video of the game than video of the conference after the 28th.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Is there an official program or schedule what kind of sessions and presentations will be held?
August 16th, 2008 at 10:57 am
next year jQuery Camp 2009 Europe, please!!!
any chance to attend online, video streaming??
August 17th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Hey there, it’s a shame this sort of thing doesn’t often get put on in Australia. I’d be VERY keen for video coverage though, if you guys can pull that off
August 18th, 2008 at 7:48 am
If I can convince my buddy on heading up to this in his home state/city, then we’ll be attending!
August 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Is there a schedule of speakers/content?
August 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I am interested in both jQuery Camp 2008 and the AJAX Experience but I have no detail to convince my boss to attend. It would be better if you can give something that will be in both events.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Can anyone give me a breakdown of what these “sessions” are? I’m trying to pitch it to my boss so he’ll let me go.
But he wants the ol’ cost-benefit analysis type deal. Is there a list of sessions? We need details! 
August 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
any plans to have these types of conferences on the west coast? I am 100% certain that I can get “space” to hold these events here in Los Angeles
August 19th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
*Whistles* $50 isn’t bad at all… I’m tempted to rent a car and drive down for the weekend… Decisions, decisions.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I’m totally rentin’ a car and driving up from NYC. See you guys there.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:36 am
Anyone who thinks $50 is a lot doesn’t go to many conferences
Last one I went to cost me $700.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:51 pm
just to send you a huge hello from Colombia, I wish i could be there. Have fun.
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 am
Oh please, west coast! Seattle/Portland/SF
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 am
I wonder if you’d be interested in a short talk at the conference on real-world applications? We’ve recently just released the plusmarketsgroup.com web site which features movable, customisable pods which have their content updated in real-time via AJAX (and their settings remembered…) - see http://plusmarketsgroup.com/PLUS_myplus.shtml, and tradingturqouise.com which features lots of animation and AJAX, auto-resizable iFrames, and a stand-alone book viewer with bags of features including communication with the parent window.
All done in jQuery (obviously - why wouldn’t you
), and I’ve some (hopefully) interesting experiences and thoughts that I’d be glad to share. Might be nice to show people that jQuery is being used on real-world, top-end web sites; these are multi-million pound trading sites…
Cheers,
Steve
August 24th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I tried out a lot of javascript libraries/frameworks when I was starting up development for my price comparison site/mashup, but it was love at first sight with jQuery
- haven’t looked back ever since. Anyways, in the same vein as “Hogsmill”, I was wondering if people would be interested in a talk featuring this kind of a real world app. Who do
August 24th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Sorry…hit the “return” key accidentally…guess there is no way to undo the incomplete comment
. Here is the full thing:
I tried out a lot of javascript libraries/frameworks when I was starting up development for my price comparison site/mashup, but it was love at first sight with jQuery
- haven’t looked back ever since. Anyways, in the same vein as “Hogsmill”, I was wondering if people would be interested in a talk featuring this kind of a real world app. I saw “Ajax development, mashups” in the list of topics being discussed. Is there someone in particular I need to contact if I want to present a short talk on the application at the conference? You can check out the site at http://www.xatori.com
August 24th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Also wanted to mention that the site is still in beta (read incomplete
). Will be adding a bunch of features pretty soon.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:21 am
We’re getting fairly close to the date, did they pick a place yet? I’d like to choose a hotel close to the venue.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Is there a max number of attendees? I am trying to wrangle a few developers together and I don’t know how many will attend in the end. Can we just get the tickets at the door?