Home Camp is an unconference about using technology to monitor and automate the home for greener resource use and to save costs.

The exact venue is still to be confirmed, but will be in London on 29th November 2008.

I have been working on this idea for a few weeks now, and mostly wrestling with which name to use for the event.  So I decided on Home Camp.

Funnily enough, we were using the #homecamp hashtag on twitter to tweet about being at home on a weekend and what we were doing. Although this doesn’t seem to have been picked up on the old summize service and hashtags.org has been long gone.

But I thought the name kinda fit.  Especially because Home Camp is more that just Current Cost meters. This is about low energy devices and servers, reducing your electricity bills, monitoring your mouse traps, home automation, monitoring your water usage, using solar polar.  This is a hack day.

There is some great work being done, particulary with Current Cost meters, and Home Camp aims to build on the momentum of this work and help establish a community to continue to exchange new ideas, hacks and scripts.

So who’s involved with Home Camp?

I am organising Home Camp with Dale Lane, who works for IBM and James Governor has pledged GreenMonk sponsorship.  I have also bounced this idea off numerous people that I hope will also become officially involved.

So if you want to come along, then head over to the wiki and add your name to the list.