BarCamp Cape Town 2010
What's The Big Idea?
Woot! BarCamp Cape Town is coming, again!
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
Everyone is encouraged to present anything that they feel other geeks would find interesting. Have a look at the first BarCamp in Cape Town for the varied topics (and the funky logo):
http://barcamp.org/BarCampCapeTown06
Get involved
Seriously, you have to be involved, if we don't get support then its not going to happen.
Do one of these now!
When
Thinking early 2010, maybe towards the end of Jan?
Sponsors
BarCamp is a great place to get some visibility (and link love) by sponsoring all/part of the event.
Projector, White Boards, Screen: Huddlemind
Pitching in something: Attract I.T.
Capacity
Space WILL be limited. Sorry guys, it needs to be small and intimate. Details will follow once we have a venue.
Duration
Would like it to be 2 days, but that's up for debate.
Planners
Volunteers
Participants (aka Campers)
- Charl Fourie charl [at] anotherphotographer dot co dot za, http:/www.anotherphotographer.co.za
- Justin Slack justin[at]justinslack.com http://www.justinslack.com
- Dave Duarte, dave[at]huddlemind[dot]com, http://www.daveduarte.co.za
- Stii Pretorius, stii[at]stii.co.za, http://stii.co.za
- Dirk Tolken, dtolken[at]gmail.com, http://www.viralmarketer.co.za
- Phil Barrett, phil at userexperience coza, http://fronttoback.org
- Adele Zevenster, adele[dot]zevenster[at]gmail[dot]com
- Glen Verran glen at verran dot za dot net (http://www.verran.za.net)
- Charl van Niekerk http://charlvn.com/
- Paul Scott http://www.paulscott.za.net http://www.uwc.ac.za
- Jeremy Thurgood http://jerith.za.net
- Eshaam Rabaney, eshaam [AT] eshaamrabaney.com, http://www.eshaamrabaney.com
Task List
These are the sort of things we would like to see sponsored or helped with
(please -cross out- when it's done)
Tech
Wifi -> not negotiable (Will check UWC availability)
Bandwidth -> same (Will check UWC availability)
PA system -> same (Will check UWC availability)
Photographer -> Charl Fourie charl [at] anotherphotographer dot co dot za, http:/www.anotherphotographer.co.za (Will gladly document the event, and will make an event submission on http://www.demotix.com/)
Video -> same
a Freedom Toaster -> cool if we can organise
Streaming or Stickam or Skype -> not too fussed about this
Power leads and powerstrips -> a real pain, there is never enough
Non-tech
a venue -> crucial (Will check UWC availability)
wine (!) -> depends on the time of day obviously, last time lots where left over but makes nice gifts
t-shirts -> nice to have
coffee -> decent stuff, but will probably be filter only for practicality reasons
food/snacks -> i suggest we make this BYO
chairs and tables -> tables are nice
a logo -> we have this already, will need to speak to Damien and Mark about how useable the files are that we have up on Flickr, seem to be large enough
Breakfast -> nah, people tend to not want
Lunch -> super important
Tags for twitter, flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag #BarCampCapeTown for content related to this event