The pocket guide to organizing your own Barcamp

1. HowToGetStarted
1. ...still working on this -- any want to pitch in?
2. CrystalWilliams offers Ten Steps to Organizing a Barcamp
2. BarCampTemplate - it would be helpful to have a template for the set of pages needed for a *Camp. E.g. the home page, the *Planners (includes volunteers), *Schedule, *Sponsors, etc.
3. RecommendedSessions - sessions that are useful at nearly every *Camp
4. Setup a BackChannel for the Event
1. A dedicated BackChannel can be useful for storing session notes, ideas, etc. for future recollection. There are many options to choose from on the BackChannel page.wino
5. Make sure the venue is accessible. See Christiane Link's handy checklist: http://www.behindertenparkplatz.de/cl/2007/10/12/850/
6. Marketing a Bar Camp is very important. Review this article on advertising that works
7. Here you'll find collection of web resources to organize a BarCamp

• BarCampVancouver, BarCampShanghai and BarCampLosAngeles organizer Crystal Williams breaks down exactly what you need to know to organize a camp anywhere in the world in ten steps: Ten Steps to Organizing a Barcampsprzedam mieszkanie
• Helping to make things a bit more global, Franz Patzig and Sacha Lemaire have been generous enough to translate these guidelines into German and French.
• German Version provided by Franz Patzig
• French Version provided by Sacha Lemaire
• Portuguese Version provided by nickellis
• BarCampRDU organizer Fred Stutzman writes Advice for Planning a Bar Campsprzedam bilet
• BarCampNYC veteran Amit Gupta wrote an amazing how-to based on his experiences.
• Amit Ranjan has an extremely thorough Dummy’s Guide to organizing a BarCamp in your city...
• Kareem Mayan has posted an extremely thorough post mortemaukcje of BarCampLosAngeles.
• Boxes and Arrows overview of Barcamp.
• BarCamp Logo Gallery
• BarCampHouston co-host Marc Nathan has a handy BarCamp checklist Howto: Host an Unconference
• BarCamp Guide in Italian by the BzaarCamp Wiki

How to deal with sponsors?

Chris Messina pointed out that cash donations for the original BarCamp were limited to $200, and went into a PayPal account. He also suggested that donations of stuff, rather than cash, were easier to deal with. DavidCrow and JayGoldman have been working with a cash donation limit of $250 for the Toronto BarCamps, also to a PayPal account.

See Sponsoring for more guidelines, best practices, case studies from around the world.

How to make decisions?

For example, let's say a local company offers a venue. At some point, there needs to be a final yes/no answer. How were these sorts of decisions made at the original BarCamp? Amsterdam? Does the fact that we have months rather than days make things harder or easier?

Am I worrying about organizational issues too much? (Or too little?)

Am I being too old-school? Having helped out at company-run user conferences, I have a certain set of expectations that may not apply. How radically ad-hoc is it possible to get before it gets ugly?

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