Introduction
BarCampBrighton3 is an unconference to be held on 6th - 7th September 2008. It will follow up the very enjoyable BarCampBrighton & BarCampBrighton2.
The story so far
We'll be returning to the University of Sussex as a venue.
The venue will be the Student Union which means we'll have 24hr access with support from university facilities people.
People involved
Mark Kirby
Glen Jones
Jonathan Markwell
Vicky Walberg
Premasagar Rose
Paul Silver
Chris Anderson
Offers of Assistance
Mark Ng - happy to come down the night before and be a dogsbody (might need a floor/sofa to kip on, though)
Vicky Lamburn - very happy to muck in where necessary!
Ron Hose (TokBox) - can set a video-conference at the event for anyone who can't make it down here.
Sponsorship
We're looking for sponsors!
There are three sponsorship packages:
1x Gold Sponsor
£1000 to cover the cost of University of Sussex security staff, porters and cleaners.
8x Silver Sponsors
£750 for each of the following:
* Saturday Breakfast
* Saturday Lunch
* Saturday Refreshments
* Saturday Dinner
* Sunday Breakfast
* Sunday Lunch
* Sunday Refreshments
* Beer for the people
10x Mini-Sponsors
£100 to sponsor Student Union staff.
This package is only open to individuals and fledgling businesses (5 employees or less).
As a Sponsor, You Receive:
* A post on this blog about your sponsorship, including a link to your website
* Your logo in the sidebar of the blog
* A listing on the BarCamp wiki
* A shout on Twitter about your sponsorship
* Your company logo on a poster of sponsors at the event
* Your Company mentioned at the start of day, close of day and alongside the meal that you sponsor
* Two tickets for the event (Gold and Silver sponsors only)
* An opportunity to provide signage for display at the event
* An opportunity to offer giveaways at the event (badges, literature, trinkets)
* Lots of opportunities to promote your sponsorship in your own publications
The Gold Sponsor will have the most prominent position on the blog and at the event.
Go For It!
Gold & Silver sponsors, please speak to Mark Kirby:
kirby.mark AT gmail.com
Mini-Sponsors, please speak to Premasagar Rose:
p AT premasagar.com
Be sure to get in touch as soon as possible make sure you get the sponsorship option that you want. Gold sponsorship, beer and evening meals are usually the first to go.
More on the blog
Tickets
Tickets will be released in a series of waves, probably at some point in July.
Attendees
Interested in attending? Add your name here, and if there are any topics you might want to talk or hear about feel free to mention them too. You can also mark yourself as attending on upcoming - 60 people are already expressing an interest there (as of early July). Don't forget - you need a ticket to attend, marking yourself as attending here or on upcoming does not get you in).
Mark Kirby - interested in hearing about Mobile technology, gig listings online, Wordpress as a CMS.
Mark Ng
Paul Silver - interested in hearing about real world use of Amazon S3 / EC2 behind websites
