See past camp pages: 2013 2012 2011 Ancient times

UCC is running a camp in 2014, from July 18th to July 21st. Holy mackerel, people, that's really soon!

Let's put a whole heap of computer nerds in one place for a weekend and see what happens! We'll make sure there's (guaranteed dial-up speed) internet, the rest is up to the people attending. Lanning will definitely happen, but there will also be some people there who are doing hardware/software hacking and coding. Besides that, it's just a great chance to meet some like-minded people and network.

This is a NON ALCOHOLIC event, any alcohol found will be dealt with appropriately.

Contact [email protected] with any inquiries.

Buy your ticket now!

Cost: $80 for members, $115 for non-members.
Member discount is only available to those signed up prior to the 1st May 2014.
To obtain the discount a ticket must be purchased by Monday, 14th July.
Payment must be received by Wednesday, 16th July.

All attendees must submit an attendee form before they are provided with a ticket by Monday, 14th July.
18+ Form. Under 18 Form.
Forms are to be scanned and emailed to [email protected] or handed to any door member in the clubroom.
Please then pay for your camp ticket through dispense or EFT.
You will receive a confirmation email once an attendee form AND payment have been received.

Camp Scholarships: FUCC

Camp Poster: Tux 2014

Any UCC Member can apply to be a staff member.
Staff Registration Form: http://goo.gl/pu5i7a

Location & Date

The camp will be run for four days and three nights from Friday, 18th July to Monday, 21st July.
The arrival time on the Friday is 3pm, and attendees must leave the venue by 10am on the Monday.
Transport will not be provided to or from the camp venue, if you are unable to make your own way, many attendees will carpool to the event.

Camp Leschenaultia, same location as UCCCamp2013
400 Leschenaultia Place, Chidlow
http://www.camplesch.com.au/

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/lfbBT

Itinerary

The draft itinerary for the camp can be viewed here.

Activities that took place at camp:

• Rock Band
• Lanning
  • Minecraft (need server for next year)
  • DOTA0
  • WolfET
  • The Ship (need serves for next year)
  • Hidden: Source (need server for next year)
  • Civilisation V
  • Age of Empires II
  • Warcraft 3 Mods
  • Fighting Games

  • Chivalry and TF2 (need servers for next year)

  • Railroads
  • Call of Duty 4
  • Humphrey the Rabbit
• Squid maintenance
• Super Smash Bros Melee
• Other console games
• Marshmallows

• Potential screenings

• Maybe tech talks

Ideas that are struck through didn't actually happen in 2013.

What Attendees Should Bring

• Sleeping bag + pillow (Dormitories do not provide bedding)
• Computer + non-surge protected powerboard
  • With Ethernet: no wireless available.
• Headphones with cable slack
• Drinks (tea, coffee, water are provided)
  • No alcohol
• Earplugs if you're a light sleeper (you probably are)
• Clothes for 3 days
• Shoes
• Towel
• Clothes, toiletries, and all that other crap stuff that you need to survive for 2 days
  • Don't forget deodorant! (Please!)
• Munchies for between meals
• Games... many games

Please note that internet at the camp will be limited, so please get any downloading done at home, and disable any high-bandwidth applications before arrival.

Menu

All main meals will be catered for at the event.

• Friday Dinner: Spaghetti Bolognese
• Saturday Breakfast: English Breakfast
• Saturday Lunch: Sausage Sizzle
• Saturday Dinner: Beef and Guinness Stew
• Sunday Breakfast: English Breakfast
• Sunday Lunch: Meat and Salad Rolls
• Sunday Dinner: Chicken Korma
• Monday Breakfast: Continental Breakfast

Planning

• Food
  • Need to provide meals. There's no Pizza around, you're going to have to cook them.
    • Someone needs to take charge and be the "Chef", but everyone must help out.
    • Everyone needs to help with dishes as well, but people are usually pretty good about this.
  • Price these up. You need to have enough for everyone. In the past we've had a little too much, but that's better than not enough.
  • Buying these is an activity that takes time. Don't leave it 'till 5 minutes before dinner.
  • No games during dinner rule was good and should happen again.
• Internet
  • Need 3G SIMs to cover the whole time. Last time we had 2x12GB plans from Internode, first one ran out the final night, IIRC.
  • Mast needs acquiring, used [DTK]'s in years past. Maybe antenna as well, were we still using [BOB]'s.
  • Network setup night needed. It's harder than you'd think.
    • Beatentrack HDD is still in Cabellera, I think.
  • Bring Beatentrack, Switches, Pythons, Heathred, Skywhale(?), Long ethernet cable for the mast, power for the mast, the mast, maybe webcams.
  • Fix Heathred's game servers. TF2 is perpetually broken.
• Money
  • Need to work out how much it costs us.
    • $25 per person, per night in the past or the venue.
    • 25 people the last couple of years
    • Food is not free. Far from it.
    • Internet is also not free.
  • Have tickets and advertising the minute the EMP is approved.
    • In past years "tickets" have been "names on a list".
    • Dispense items for tickets.
    • Subsidised tickets need to be approved.
• Misc stuff
  • Check the previous years' pages for stuff not here.
  • People should prepare Tech Talks. It'll be good, I promise.
  • People should get good at Age of Empires, ET, Civ5, Frak, etc.

Good Stuff

• The network didn't die
• Matches had attendees playtest his game "Humphrey the Rabbit"
• Food was excellent and leftovers were relatively low overall
  • Thanks to Trevor for being an amazing chef
• 9am wakeup call was more civilised and greatly appreciated by attendees
  • There should be a notice for attendees at midnight or 1am notifying them of the time
• D-LAN was great for sharing, except for [EDO]
• Mast and antenna setup worked well
  • Some people preferred the teamwork of the giant mast last year
  • Connection speeds were good
  • Usage was good, about 22G/27G used, look into iiNet for next year's network
• Duct Tape was good
• Everyone enjoyed the dinner conversations
  • No computers at meal times worked well
• Thoroughfares through the computer setup area worked well for access to other areas and other people
• Ping Pong was good

To be improved

• Camp organisers should be the first to arrive
  • Thanks to [SLX] and [SZM] for getting up early and helping with network setup
• Camp computer layout needs to be looked at improved for more people in future years
• UCC needs more powerboards and extension cables
• Allocate the three available circuit more efficiently
  • Core network likely does not need a circuit to itself
• Lack of heating
  • Thanks to Lionel for his floor heater in the dorm, it was amazing
  • Look into floor heaters or asking people to bring them
• The fireplace inside does not work, do not try to start a fire in there
• Projector should be used more for larger multiplayer games
• Apparently overzealous net blocking interfered with some games
• A "How to Prepare for UCC Camp" wiki page should be created, including how to stop automatic downloads
• Update all servers on Heathred before Camp, games specified above
• Introduce an itinerary for games at the camp, with a survey conducted before camp to decide what games should be played
• Name tags for attendees might be an idea, or a way for everyone to learn people's names
• Have a dishwashing roster or procedure so all attendees are involved with cleaning up