Worldwide Web Camps

Over the next few weeks Microsoft is sponsoring a number of free Web Camp events around the world.  These provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010.

The Web Camps are two day events.  The camps aren’t conferences where you sit quietly for hours and people talk at you – they are intended to be interactive.  The first day is focused on learning through presentations that are heavy on coding demos.  The second day is focused on you building real applications using what you’ve learned.  The second day includes hands-on labs, and you’ll join small development teams with other attendees and work on a project together.

We’ve got some great speakers lined up for the events – including Scott Hanselman, James Senior, Jon Galloway, Rachel Appel, Dan Wahlin, Christian Wenz and more.  I’ll also be presenting at one of the camps.

Below is the schedule of the remaining events (the sold-out Toronto camp was a few days ago):

Many locations are sold out already but we still have some seats left in a few of them.  Registration and attendance to all of the events is completely free.  You can register to attend at www.webcamps.ms.

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

Published Saturday, May 15, 2010 3:30 PM by ScottGu

Comments

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Saturday, May 15, 2010 7:05 PM by gerrylowry

it would be wonderful if Toronto got one of these camps.  call me biased.  call me envious too.  I am assuming that the sessions will be recorded and we'll get to view them online.

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Saturday, May 15, 2010 7:36 PM by Eugen

that's a good news, hopefully one day we will have such a camp somewhere at the south side, like California or Arizona. too far too drive and too expensive to stay in Chicago :)

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:01 PM by Joey

I hope the Philippines will have such events too... :(

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:06 PM by Stankiewicz

Nothing for Mexico?

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Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:51 PM by Nicolas Pascual

Thanks for share Scott!

I hope that they come to my country (Argentina) soon.

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:07 AM by Pita.O

None for Canada? What's the matter? We don't buy enough Visual Studio licenses?

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:38 AM by Gurdeep

What bout India? It was slightly more distant to Beijing ;)

Well, thanks for the post. I do hope the events are recorded and we get our hands on to the videos. Kindly let us know...

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Sunday, May 16, 2010 2:06 AM by Domagoj Pavlešić

And Croatia?? :-)

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 2:06 AM by AC

How come no Indian cities on the list....?

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:48 AM by Emrah Aker

We're looking forward to see you in Turkey also...

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:21 AM by Ganesh_Ranganathan

Scott, It would be great to have such events in India as well.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 4:33 AM by Francesco

what about Rome ? :)

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:08 AM by ihmar

Dubai is missing. I hope you gonna arrange soon in ME.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:42 AM by bola adekoya

i hope one day we will have such in africa!

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Sunday, May 16, 2010 8:18 AM by dave

How bout Raleigh? We are the fastest growing tech hub in the US.

Please come here guys!!

- Dave, reprezentin da southeast

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:18 AM by Marcelo Negrini

And, as always, Brazil, one of the largest Microsoft markets, is out, because Redmondians don't like coming here. What about a little science in selecting the places?

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:47 AM by brad s

pittsburgh would be another great location.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:04 PM by Frederic

And why no camp in Brussels, the capital of Europe?

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Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:14 PM by thuannguy

I'm reading your blog, I work with ASPNET everyday, and I'm in Vietnam. Come here guys, please :-)

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:59 PM by chenlei

I will join the  Beijing Camps

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, May 17, 2010 2:58 AM by Peter

I only learnt now that Africa is not a part of "WORLDWIDE" !! Next time we see the word worldwide we won't bother checking. Asia, Australia, Europe and US and its worldwide !!??

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, May 17, 2010 3:31 AM by joksa

What about Serbia?

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, May 17, 2010 9:09 AM by Dan

the comments form at webcampsms.cloudapp.net/.../Web-Camps-Agenda is broken - not showing a captcha, then complaining that the captcha hasn't been provided .. fail!!!

so .. i want to ask if the presentations in munich will be in english or german?

thanks!

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, May 17, 2010 9:52 AM by mr_squall

No seats immidiately after news =(

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Monday, May 17, 2010 10:01 AM by Mohanraj

Is there any free training in Inda.

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Monday, May 17, 2010 10:14 AM by Webdiyer

Welcome to China!

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, May 17, 2010 3:42 PM by Christian Wenz

Hi Dan,

one of the speakers is from the US, so I'd guess the presentation will be in English. Of course I'll be happy to answer any questions in either English or German.

--Christian

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, May 17, 2010 5:08 PM by Jon Galloway

@gerrylowry, @Pita.O -

Toronto got the very first Web Camp: www.webcamps.ms/.../Recap-from-Toronto

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, May 17, 2010 8:31 PM by Ans

Great!!! sydney is on the list...I will definitely attend.

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 1:30 AM by Vijay

You missed india.

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:05 AM by Pierrick

Just registered for the Sydney one. That's just awesome!

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:42 PM by glinkot

Thanks Scott!  Great to see one in Sydney, I've registered!

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:00 AM by ScottGu

To all that asked for a webcamp in a city that isn't currently scheduled - we are working on trying to get more cities for later in the year.  We definitely want to try and do them in as many places as possible!

Hope this helps,

Scott

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:57 AM by maku

why is india never in such lists ?

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:50 AM by Darryn

I did a search on Mountain View and came up with literally dozens of places worldwide with this name. A little more information on exactly where these Web Camps will occur would be nice.

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Monday, May 24, 2010 11:05 PM by Colum

Will any of the lectures be available online? Sydney day 1 is sold out but I would love to be able to have access to this information and learn about what's new

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:01 AM by Itzik

I added myself to the waiting list of new york. I hope I will get a sit!

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Thursday, May 27, 2010 10:31 PM by alejandro miralles

As Nicolas Pascual, I also hope that they can make it to Argentina

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Monday, June 07, 2010 1:03 PM by dave

these web camps are a good idea. Any going to be in southern cali?

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, June 07, 2010 4:27 PM by jhalbrecht

Hi Scott,

I'm looking forward to the web camp in Redmond June 18-19. I've been doing my homework as suggested in an Attendance Reminder I received recently.

I've even cobled together a rough helloWorld and deployed to a content hosting provider. Ended up using vs2008 and .net 3.5 and setting some of the refrences to copy True to deploy to the provider. Hopefully they'll have Framework 4.0 up before the camp. -- a lot of bing searches, hacking and mountain dew.

I'm up for some guidance more than the hacking. Can you suggest some resources for a very rudimentary introduction / tutorial to MVC and perhaps some faqs on the gotchas of publishing? The nerddinner me thinks is a bit to much to chew for a first bite.

I'd like to be using vs2010 and fw 4.0 but so far no luck publishing. This might be a difficult question to answer yes or no, but I'll try. Is it possible to deploy an MVC 2.0 app to a provider that is not currently supporting the Framework 4.0?

... seems odd to me that a default mvc 2.0 web app fresh out of the project -> new would contain a login section where misconfiguration might cause greif... (thinking out loud)

Scott - enjoy your blog(s) so much. I appricate the clear concise way you write. When I search on asp.net whateverIwantToLearn I always head for your site if it's in the search result set!

Thanks, - jeffa

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Friday, July 02, 2010 8:18 AM by Chetan Sudra

What about India - Hyderabad? Microsoft Development centers in India. You should come to India!!! I'm sure will arrange.. Indians will give you more license than anyone else!!!

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Monday, July 12, 2010 8:32 PM by smehaffie

Scott, could not attend any of the above camps.  Are there plans to have any more of these in 2010? Who would we have to contact to get one in Kansas City, MO?  

# re: Worldwide Web Camps

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:51 AM by ScottGu

@smehaffie,

>>>>>>>> Scott, could not attend any of the above camps.  Are there plans to have any more of these in 2010? Who would we have to contact to get one in Kansas City, MO?  

We are planning to do several more web-camps over the next 12 months.  I'll blog more details once the dates/locations are known.

Hope this helps,

Scott