BarCampBrisbane organisation page for organisers to throw in ideas.

Possible Dates

24th Nov

Venues

I have contacted Merthyr Bowls Club, New Farm Bowls Club, Booroodabin Bowls Club and East Brisbane Bowls Club and the only one with availability in November is East Brisbane Bowls Club (Mowbray Park Lytton Road).

Listed below are the details:

Availability of Saturdays in November: 24th Nov

Rental for Seminar hall: $150

Cost for bare foot bowling: $15 Per person

BBQ lunch and dinner:

They provide a light lunch including Tea, Coffee and Sandwich: $10 per person.

BBQ lunch/dinner (including barefoot bowls): $ 20 per person. You can have BBQ for lunch or dinner.

Alcohol packages: Their alcohol packages are as cheap as a public bar. The charges per person vary according to the consumption.

Plan for the day

The emphasis was to try and interact technical sessions with social sessions.

So kick off at about 10:00AM and then have several sessions before lunch and then several between lunch and dinner.

Possible event: hack day

We could run a mini hack day, similar to Yahoo's, giving people a couple of hours to build a mini app hacked together. We'd announce the theme, stimulus or even data sources (e.g. the yahoo APIs?). This is great in creating startups and encouraging some really neat ideas; it has the downside of being incompatible with the non-developers in the room (e.g. SQL Server folks like Peter). Comments?

Sponsors

Confirmed

• Wardy IT

Possible

• Microsoft
• IBM
• Allotz

What we can use money for

• Venue hire
• Tshirts ~$10-15 each
• Book Giveaway - maybe 4 books - purchase from Amazon for cost and latest editions - $50 each. Keep titles fairly broad - people can also swap if they dont like their book.
• Stationary (magic markers, butchers paper for session plan)
• Internet (donation in kind from an isp?)
• Bar Tab
• Advertising (in the events section of the paper?)

Nice to have paid for

• Lunch (sandwiches)
• Bowls - $20
• Dinner (BBQ)

Logo Idea

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.griffith.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