Planning for BarCampBirmingham
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This is from notes of our second BarCamp Planning Lunch.
Locations
- Mixer: Jim N' Nicks Southside - back room is reserved. Order your own food/drinks.
- BarCamp: Mountaintop Church, Vestavia Hills
Sponsors
- Mountaintop Church - providing venue at no charge
- TechBirmingham - providing lunch Saturday
- IPSA - providing T-shirts for event
- O'Reilly Media - providing books for door prizes
Other Items To Be Sponsored
- breakfast items Saturday morning
- snacks/drinks during the day
- door prizes
- badges for attendees
- anything else?
Possible Sponsors
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Adobe
- Headhunter Agencies (Savela, ITAC, etc)
- Local Media (al.com, Birmingham News, etc)
Venue
Let's pick a cool venue:
- McWane's center
- WorkPlay
- Vulcan Park
- unfortunately, one big room
- UAB Continuing Ed building
- 24 security
- need to discuss a Wifi
- Pickwick hotel
- Jim'n'Nicks Southside
- Hoover Met
- St. Vincent's Conference
Modular venue: use multiple places nearby.
Maybe Friday night at Vulcan park, then take to a more
Need flexibility for having multiple rooms, but it will be amazing if we have more than one full track the first time.
ScottSchram insists on it being non-smoking :)
Multiple tracks going on at one time.
Combine with TechMixer?
- TechMixer is on the weekday evening
- Thursday is overwhelmingly most popular day
- Sept 21, 2006
Participants
- Get UAB Computer Science folks to talk about their projects
- Talk with AIGA folks
- Griffin technology
- Auburn university
RSVP system to gauge participation?
Ask around.
Schedule
- Friday night mixer
- a couple of sessions
- later in the evening, around 8:00pm
- food, beer, drinks at a restaurant
- Saturday day session
- start on 10:00am
- designated lunch time
- official outing at the end (Vulcan park)
Sponsorship
Who do they write the check to?
T-shirts
