Code Camps are an interesting concept. The idea at most of them is to have some good speakers but also allow new and upcoming speakers to have a chance. You'll always get poor to ok speakers this way, but it's how those speakers learn the skill. If I'm attended a free or low cost event, I go in with the anticipation of have poor speakers. If it's a high cost event, say DevConnections, VSLive, TechEd, Build, or even SWFox, I expect top notch speakers across the board.

I'm one of the organizers of Utah Code Camp and we struggle with low quality speakers every year. We do speaker training for new speakers to help them. But our topics are 100% voted on by the community, so we're bound to get bad speakers if the community votes for someone purely on the basis of their topic.


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>I've been to a couple of code camps and haven't gone back.
>I couldn't get into the sessions with the really good speakers, and the ones I got into had speakers who had not been well vetted.
>One the other hand, I've been to a lot of the Philly.Net sessions and I have found the speakers there (including John Baird) to be of uniformly high quality and the sessions have been valuable to me.
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