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.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
@jodiem I’d also like to encourage a bit of a Government 2.0 ’stream’ to part of the day if there is room for it. There has been lots of discussion about holding a Government 2.0 BarCamp in Canberra (which has now morphed into a combined Public Sphere/Government 2.0 event being coordinated by Sen. Kate Lundy’s office on the Monday before this BarCampSydney takes place - see http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/05/29/public-sphere-2-open-government-policy-and-practice/ ), but I know there is interest in having a local (and slightly) less-federal government focused gathering. I’m also working with a bunch of people to organise a community screening of the Us Now documentary around this time too - more details here http://usnowsydney.wikidot.com/start
June 1st, 2009 at 10:48 am
[...] fans of BarCamp (and indeed folks who’ve never even heard of them), Sydney’s 5th BarCamp is coming up on June 27th at the Australian Technology Park (a great [...]
June 1st, 2009 at 11:19 pm
[...] tech enthusiasts have also announced a “recession” edition barcamp to be held on the 27th of June. Their new activity this time round is the Think Tank room. Finally, [...]
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am
Hey guys, trying to get in touch to see if we can help out with sponsorship. We <3 Barcamp.
Drop me a line, your links/google groups etc seem to be b0rked =)
-Brett
June 4th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Hey Brett, I’ve emailed you offline re: sponsorship. Thanks mate
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