Hello Vancouver Bar Camp ers,
Just a quick email from the Bar Camp organizers to pass on some plans and news about the upcoming event. We're all very psyched to be part of the first Bar Camp Vancouver, and hope you are too.
If You Can't Come, Please Remove Your Name From the List
There are currently about 12 people on the waitlist. If you can't make it:
1. Visit http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouverRegistry and take yourself off the list.
2. Move the next person from the waitlist on to the list.
3. If they left an email address, send them a quick email letting them know that they're in.
A waitlisted person will be very appreciative.
Bar Camp Costs and T-Shirts
Technically speaking, Bar Camp Vancouver is free. However, we've got plenty of costs to cover (see our budget: http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouverPlanning), so we're requesting a donation of $20. Everybody who makes such a donation gets a groovy Bar Camp Vancouver t-shirt (you can view a PDF of the design here: http://tinyurl.com/osh68).
We've only got 120 t-shirts, so if you're picky about size, register promptly on Friday night.
Schedule
The schedule, such as it is, looks like this:
Friday Night, 6:00pm - Registration and Rooftop Barbeque at the Bryght offices
Friday Night, Later - Camping out at Workspace
Saturday, 8:30am - Breakfast
Saturday, 9:00am - Scheduling the day's sessions
Saturday, 10:00am - Sessions begin
Saturday, 6:00pm - Sessions end
A note on scheduling: We've done the math, and we're pretty sure that all 120 of us won't be able to present in 8 hours. So, if you're not so keen on presenting, don't feel obligated to do so. Try to pitch in in other ways: contribute to discussions, help clean up, ask an organizer if there's an errand that needs running, and so forth. If you're sort of keen on presenting, check the list to see if there's somebody you can co-present with.
There may be some preliminary scheduling on Friday night, but if you're keen to present, show up at 9:00am on Saturday morning and participate in the scheduling round-up.
Locations
The main venue for Bar Camp has been generously donated by Workspace (http://www.abetterplacetowork.com/). That's suite 400 - 21 Water Street in the heart of Vancouver's Gastown. Here's a map: http://tinyurl.com/qoha6.
The Friday night BBQ will be at Bryght's offices, which are literally a half-block away at suite 400 - 1 Alexander St. You actually enter around the side of the building off Carall St. Here's a map: http://tinyurl.com/mwsbm.
The Bryght offices are not wheelchair accessible (there's a flight of stairs between the 3rd floor elevator and the 4th floor office). If you require special access, please contact us via the Bar Camp Google Group and we'll see about arranging access.
Food
Friday Night BBQ - We'll be providing some weiners and such to roast, plus veggie options for the non-meat eaters. If you're not keen on those options, you're welcome to bring real or faux beast flesh of your choosing. Beer will be provided courtesy of Ad Hack.
Saturday breakfast - There will be a 'continental breakfast' starting at 8:30am
Saturday lunch - We're ordering pizza
Other snacks include cookies from Midnight Kitchen, iced tea and sodas from Jones Sodas, bottled water and whatever else we can scare up.
Sponsors
This event is so cheap because of our fantastic sponsors. They are:
Uniserve
Business Objects
Belkin
Nitobi
Elastic Path Software
Bryght
Raincity Studios
EQO Communications
Workspace
Capulet Communications
Midnight Kitchen
Ad Hack
Sxip
Jones Sodas
T-shirt.ca
Social Signal
That's it. Any questions, hit up the Google group at http://groups.google.com/group/barcampvancouver. Otherwise, we'll see you on Friday! Cheers. DB.
