Welcome to BarCampSydney
BarCamp is an intense community event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to participate. Find out more.
Last minute sponsor
On Friday Mike Cannon-Brookes from Atlassian emailed us to let us know that Atlassian would be sponsoring BarCampSydney5. This was wonderful news because we now have enough sponsorship to put on a Bar Tab! So make sure you stick around for drinks after BarCamp too.
BCS5 Logistics
Some further details about BCS5
Date and Time
Date: Saturday 27th June 2009
Time: 9am Start, 5pm Finish then off to the local pub just around the corner for drinks
Location
Innovations Centre, Australian Technology Park, Redfern
Also see it on Google Maps Street View
Getting There
Here’s an overview of getting to ATP http://www.atp.com.au/how-to-find-atp
But the bottom line is - catch a train or a bus! The parking is $20 and they only accept notes or coins.
Here are the details of trains from central station and busses (the 310 bus looks like the best option).
Coffee, Drinks and Food
There is a Cafe on site, right inside the venue. We have a coffee sponsor so you will be able to get a nice cup of coffee at least.
Food will be available to purchase at any time during the day.
Drinks afterwards will be at the local pub around the corner (details to be anounced on the day) and we will have some sponsorship money put aside for the Bar Tab (The drinks after is as just as much a part of BarCamp as the whole day).
What to Bring
- Yourself
- Your Ideas
- Your presentation: On a USB stick or laptop
- Your laptop (if you want)
- A device to twitter with (join in to the back channel)
- A 3g Dongle just in case (we will have wireless and the Meraki network set up, but just in case, if you have one, it would be good to bring it).
- A power adapter and / or extension cord (sometimes useful for charging your devices during the day)
Everything on the Map
Here is a map showing the details
View BarCampSydney5 in a larger map
New Sponsor
We have another sponsor on board
Thanks to Phillip Evans. Evanscorp were a previous sponsor fo StartupCamp2, so thanks for the great support for the local tech community.
Plus we have a heap of new individual sponsors so please check out the sponsors page for more details.
Sponsorship Update
Things are rolling along quite nicely in the BarCampSydney5 sponsorship department.
We have three new major sponsors yesterday
Melon Media - the makers of Spellr.us. Plus they have kindly given us a free Spellr.us account for our website. Thanks Kevin and the team!
The team at Pollenizer have offered to be our Coffee Sponsor, which is great because we can’t run a BarCamp without Coffee! Big thanks to @liubinskas.
Also thanks to the ongoing support of Russ from Max Design for keeping the website up and running and helping out wherever needed.
The individual sponsorships are starting to role in now also. See the Sponsors page for details.
We are still looking for more sponsors. The more sponsorship we can raise, the better the day will be.
We also need the loan of a Projector and Screen for the day if you have one of those available.
More Sponsors
Thanks so much to Geekdom for a big chunk of sponsorship love.
Also thanks to the sponsorships from individuals coming through - even people who can’t come to BarCamp are sponsoring us. To sponsor BarCampSydney5 for a small amount via your credit card please go to www.barcamp.org/BarCampSydney5 or contact sponsors@barcampsydney.org if you want to join Microsoft and Geekdom as major sponsors.
BarCampSydney5 Registration Now Open
The Registration page for BarCampSydney5 is now online. Please register at www.barcamp.org/barcampsydney5
The registration page also has links to sponsor BarCampSydney with a quick credit card payment of a small amount. It will make a great difference to the running of BarCampSydney if we have lots people sponsoring small amounts. The more sponsorship we raise, the better the event will be. The first 50 people that sponsor and turn op on the day will be guaranteed a T-Shirt. Plus all sponsors will have their name in lights (well on our website at least).
A big thanks to Microsoft AU who have sponsored BarCampSydney5 already. I think Microsoft have sponsored every BarCamp so far, so our huge thanks to them and @nickhodge for the continued support.
As far as BarCamp content goes, we now have both the FutureCamp and the Gov2.0 streams happening in the ThinkTank. The Gov2.0 stream builds on the momentum of the Government 2.0 BarCamp-style PublicSphere http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/05/29/public-sphere-2-open-government-policy-and-practice/ taking place in Canberra on the 22nd and a planned screening of the Us Now documentary around this time.
This is on top of the regular BarCamp content that you can decide upon now, and add details to the registration page about, or just make something up on the day. It’s going to be a great day! See you there!
Oh, and don’t forget to tweet about BarCamp and use the #bcs5 hashtag and http://bit.ly/bcs5 hyperlink for the registration page.
BarCamp Sydney #5 - The Recession Edition
BarCamp Sydney is on again. This is our 5th BarCamp Sydney and as we are in the midst of the GFC and a recession we’ve decided that this BarCamp is the Recession Edition or “the BarCamp we had to have” (to paraphrase Keating from 1990).
In keeping with the Recession theme of BarCamp there are a few changes to this year’s BarCamp. Firstly a new venue, whilst we loved UNSW it was quite expensive. Thankfully the Australian Technology Park (ATP) Innovations Centre is giving us access to the space for free! Yay!
Secondly, we need to spread the load of the cost of running BarCamp across more people so we are asking for individual sponsorship as well as our traditional corporate sponsorship. So what do you get for your individual sponsorship? Nothing really, just the warm fuzzy feeling that you get from helping run this fantastic community event. Hopefully there will still be T-Shirts but that will depend on how much money we raise in sponsorship. However, if you are a corporate and would like to sponsor the event please contact us ASAP.
Finally, we have a new idea for a few of the sessions - the Think Tank room. The Think Tank room is a small room with no projector and no tech - just enough room for a small group of people discussing ideas. And what better ideas to discuss than ideas about the future. As a result of the recent FutureSummit attended by a few of the local twitterati, @liubinskas has suggested we keep the ideas coming with a FutureCamp! There will be a real FutureCamp later in the year but we can start the future discussion right here at BarCamp Sydney.
There will be more details forthcoming about the venue, the logistics and how you can register and sponsor, but for right now please block out Saturday June 27 for BarCamp Sydney and put your thinking hats on to present a ripper of a session.
BarCampSydney 4 - Let’s do it!!
Hello all barcamper’s
The BCS unorganisers are really excited to inform you that BarCampSydney v4 is currently being (un)organised.
Quick details:
Date: 15 November 2008
Venue: UNSW Roundhouse (http://www.unswroundhouse.com/)
Time: 9am - 5pm (8:30 registrations)
Register yourself on the wiki here: http://barcamp.org/BarCampSydney
More info to follow.
Be there!!
So, BarCampSydney3 is over… give us your feedback…
So, BarCampSydney3 is over (Ajay will be posting a detailed write-up on this soon) … but while we wait… give us your feedback!
Was BCS3 good? Was it bad?
What did you like? What did you dislike?
What would you like to see improved for the next BSC?
Let us all know in comments and/or trackbacks below!
PS: for those who cannot wait for BCS4 - there is always BarCampCanberra on Saturday 19 April 2008
BarCampSydney3 tomorrow!
See you all tomorrow - Saturday
The event will be held at the Roundhouse - UNSW on the corner of Anzac Parade and High Street, Kensington.
Check the interactive map to see exactly where the Roundhouse is within the Uni Grounds.
Remember, at the start of each day we will open up the schedules for each room - so come along with your presentation/discussion/panel ideas and add them to the schedule at the start of the day!
There will be unorganisers in each room throughout the day - helping people with their scheduled events and keeping people to their allotted times 