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.
Jay Caines-Gooby - Might be able to help with the wifi setup but can't stay for the duration!
Sponsorship
We're looking for sponsors! Full information about sponsorship on the blog.
There are three sponsorship packages:
1x Gold Sponsor
£1000 to cover the cost of University of Sussex security staff, porters and cleaners - sponsored by MySpace
8x Silver Sponsors
£750+VAT for each of the following:
* Saturday Breakfast
* Saturday Lunch - sponsored by Cogapp
* Saturday Dinner - sponsored by Betavine
* Sunday Breakfast - sponsored by Adobe
* Sunday Lunch - sponsored by Madgex
* Beer for the people - sponsored by Osmosoft
* 2 Refreshment points - open 24 hours a day throughout the conference, with coffee, tea, fruit and more (£750 per point)
10x Mini-Sponsors
£100 to sponsor Students' Union staff (this package is only open to individuals and fledgling businesses with 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 (Gold and Silver sponsors only)
* An opportunity to offer giveaways at the event (badges, literature, trinkets)
* Lots of opportunities to promote your sponsorship in your own publications
Go For It!
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 was the first to go, beer and evening meals will likely be next.
More on the blog
Tickets
The first round of 42 tickets sold out in 10 mins!
The second round of tickets will be released on Tues August 12th at 11AM - book online here
In the meantime we have put aside some reserved places for first-timers and international attendees who would be travelling overseas to be with us. If you fall into either of these two groups and would like to come along, please email Glenn Jones: glenn.jones AT madgex.com
Car Sharing
If you are looking for a lift, or fellow passengers to share the petrol costs, please list yourself and your starting location below.
Alistair Macdonald - St Albans, Hertfordshire (driver or passenger)
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
- Laura Dewis - happy to talk about the Open Educational Resources movement - free access to university materials online and open source learning technologies, use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning
- Cennydd Bowles - talking about: design, cognitive psychology or booze. Keen to hear about anything that blows my fricking mind.
- Dan Donald - talking about identity and the socialisation of the web; interested to soak up my first BarCamp ;)
- Chris Skardon - Happy to talk about Source control practices (branching) and/or the Managed Addin Framework for .NET 3+ (if anyone wants to hear about them :))
- Tantek Çelik - would like to do a session with folks on topics related to: microformats, Social Network Portability, use of microformats for education and learning or even more esoteric topics like Body Optimization, productivity, reducing/eliminating use of email, buildering, how to be a super hero, etc.
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