Two pieces of massive news, ladies and gentlemen:
1) The absolutely stellar sequel to the 2006 Edmonton Code Camp is less than a week away!! 
2) At this code camp, you have the chance to be part of a session unlike anything you've experienced at a Code Camp before or ever will again.  Here are the details, ripped straight from the sessions page:

Unlike most sessions you have participated in at conferences and code camps, this session will involve the entire room in the conversation. Anyone can take one of the five speaker chairs to ask questions, make statements or answer question. No one person will not be able to take control of the room as the fishbowl (group of 5 speakers chairs) will be constantly changing as people step in and out. Because of the dynamic nature of the people speaking, the direction of this session will be influenced directly by you, the attendees.

Come for the conversation that will make you want to change the world and *THEN* change your pants!!  *You* are the future of software development in Edmonton.  *YOU* are going to be the harbingers of change in our city, our community, and our entire industry.  So this is your session - an open dialogue with some of the brightest minds in Alberta...*and* perpetual tag-alongs Donald Belcham and Justice Gray!  If you can only attend one session at Code Camp...if you can only attend one session this *year*...heck, if you can only attend one session in your entire life, this is it!  If you have ever wanted to improve your team, your organization, your sex life, or Donald's fashion sense, this is the talk you can't afford to miss.     What happened at ALT.NET this past month?  How do we empower others around us to make change in their industries?  How do we demonstrate the value of agile development practices and tools to our management?  What gets you fired up like nothing else?  What is the future of the Edmonton .NET user group?  Come bring your voices and your experiences to the presentation as we come up with the answers to these and other questions that will guide the  

Yes, the abstract ends abruptly just like that; a stroke of brilliance.  Exactly what is it that we're going to be guiding here?  It looks like you'll have to attend this session to find out!!  However just for the readers of this blog I will kill the suspense and spoil it here: the results of this session will be guiding the Alberta .NET community for some time to come.

This is a conversation we have been wanting to have for some time, *with* the community's direct involvement.  You might argue this sort of session violates the "must be about code" rule, but I beg to differ.  A discussion like this is all about the code.  It's all about the code you and your teammates are writing every day.  It's all about the code that powers your companies.  It's all about the *real-world* code that we are putting into production systems every day.  Out of all the session at Edmonton Code Camp this year (and we have an amazing lineup, to be sure) I am the most excited about this one, because our community is the presenter.   I look forward to seeing and hearing you there this Saturday at the University of Alberta so that we can start changing the dev world together!!