BarCampBrisbane organisation page for organisers to throw in ideas.
Possible Dates
April - same time as BarCampCanberra
June - same time as BarCampSydney v2
BarCampMelbourne 25/26th of August
December - to coincide with OSDC
Coincide with software freedom day?
Venues
Queensland Usergroups to reach out to
Linux/Unix
Gold Coast LUG - http://goldcoastlinux.com
Humbug (Brisbane LUG) - http://humbug.com.au
More at http://www.linux.org.au/usergroups/?loc=qld
MS
QLD MSDN - http://www.qmsdnug.org/
QSSUG - Qld SQL Server User Group
QVSTSUG - Qld VSTS User Group
BSPUG - Brisbane SharePoint Users Group
BrizTalk - Brisbane BizTalk Community
BIG - Brisbane Infrastructure Group
GCDotNet - Gold Coast .NET SIG
Mac
http://goin.to/gcusers - Gold Coast Apple Users
http://www.goldcoastmacusers.org.au - GoldCoast Macintosh Users Group
Developer Groups
Spring Usergroup - http://www.springframework.org/node/363
Queensland JUG -
Rural Queensland JUG - http://pasamio.id.au/rqjug/
http://www.ajug.org.au/qjug - Queensland JUG (Java User Group)
Ruby Brigade - http://ruby.meetup.com/74/
http://brrb.org - Brisbane Ruby User Group
QLD PHP - http://forum.phpqld.org/
Professional Organisations
IET - http://qld.theiet.org.au
ACS - http://www.acs.org.au/qld/ACS/home_page/home_page.htm
Queensland Internet Professionals Social & Networking Group - http://internetpro.meetup.com/9/
Universities
Bond University - http://www.bond.edu.au/
Central Queensland University - http://www.cqu.edu.au
Griffith University - http://www.gu.edu.au
James Cook University - http://www.jcu.edu.au
Queensland University of Technology - http://www.qut.edu.au
Southern Cross University - http://www.scu.edu.au
University of Queensland - http://www.uq.edu.au
University of Southern Queensland - http://www.usq.edu.au
University of the Sunshine Coast - http://www.usc.edu.au
Australian Catholic University - http://www.acu.edu.au
Sample Letter
Hello Fellow Queenslanders!
I'm writing to you because I think you might be interested in the concept of BarCamp: an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
Organisation for a BarCamp includes finding a few sponsors who will provide a venue, Internet access, food and drink. Barcamps are sometimes 2 days events so most people bring a sleeping bag and stay overnight, the venue provider should be able to cater for this if we decide on this format.
We've started the organisation for BarCampBrisbane, there is similar work going on BarCampMelbourne, BarCampCanberra & BarCampSydney. The event will obviously take place somewhere in Brisbane and we will hopefully synchronise our event with one of the other states and hook up with them in some way during the weekend.
We welcome any questions you might have about this, and encourage you to forward this email to anyone you feel might be interested. For further information, please see the BarCamp wiki pages:
http://barcamp.org/
http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustralia
http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrisbane
We also now have our own site at http://barcampbrisbane.org and a mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/barcampbrisbane so it's easy to get involved.
Kind regards,
Steve
