BarCampGoldCoast organisation page for organisers to throw in ideas.

Tasks

Sponsorship

Possibles

• Microsoft
• IBM (Tivoli)
• GCCC
• BarterCard
• Austar
• Allotz
• Inqubator

What we can use money for

• 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.
  • If you offer product placement or reviews to them, all the major publishers would be happy to give you free copies of their titles.
• Stationary (magic markers, butchers paper for session plan)
• Bar Tab
• Advertising (in the events section of the paper?)
• Lunch (pizza)

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
• 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

• 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/
• 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 with Gold Coast campuses

• Bond University - http://www.bond.edu.au/
• Central Queensland University - http://www.cqu.edu.au
• Griffith University - http://www.griffith.edu.au
• University of Southern Queensland - http://www.usq.edu.au