March 30th - April 2nd, 2017 at DePaul University - Lincoln Park Campus
MidCamp 2016 was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who helped, supported, spoke and attended. Check out MidCamp 2016 photos on Flickr. If you upload your own, please tag them #MidCamp and tweet at us (or email) so we can see the photos you took! Recordings of sessions are on the MidCamp youtube channel as well!
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Midcamp has tried since its inception to be the one of the most accessible Drupal camp, and technology conferences available. In 2015, MidCamp published our accessibility information early on http://2015.midcamp.org/venue/up-close and http://yesct.net/making-midcamp-accessible, which helped attendees know in advance the layout of the conference. I was witness to a few attendees who thanked the volunteers for this information, and explained that it was a major reason in why they attended. I was truly in awe.
Early in the planning of Midcamp 2016, Cathy Theys introduced the idea of Live Captioning as much of the event as we could. Thanks to sponsor BlackMesh, the keynote address, and all 9 sessions in the BlackMesh room will be live captioned.
Captions, composed of text, are used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing to access content delivered by spoken words and sounds. In live captioning, real-time captions or Computer Assisted Real-time Translation (CART) are created as an event takes place. A captioner uses a stenotype machine with a phonetic keyboard and special software. A computer translates the phonetic symbols into captions almost instantaneously and will be displayed on a second projector screen. (source: washington.edu) ACS (alternative communication services) will be on-site, providing the captioning service for us.
Adding on sponsorships for fun and memorable parts of MidCamp is a great way to get your name in front of everyone. Make no doubt, attendees will be incredibly grateful for the availability of coffee, a delicious lunch break, and live captions in sessions.
Can’t attend MidCamp but still want to support us? On-site sponsorships are a great way to do so!
For people not going to training, you can sprint all day Thursday. And even on session days if you like.
But, Sunday is our main dedicated sprint day. Everyone should join us!
Read about our session proposal process. Please submit your session proposal.
Deadline: Wednesday Feb 3 11:55 pm CST.
Grab the opportunity to help us put on MidCamp 2016 by becoming a Sponsor.
You can sponsor vital pieces of the day including coffee, breakfast, the evening social, live captions of sessions and more.