Sponsors help us provide a great, free event. Last time, we had sponsors pitch in for t-shirts, bkfst, lunch and dinner, drinks, bar tabs, coffee, misc supplies (tape, toiletries, cups, plates, etc.)

Here's the pitch I sent sponsors last time:

http://www.amitgupta.com/static/barcamp_sponsor.txt

Mike did the budget for BarCampNYC 1, and he has a breakdown of what we spent money on here:

http://barcamp.org/BarCampBudget

Some of those people should be willing to re-up. RedBull has already told Amit they're interested.

People to talk to

(Add your name in parens if you've reached out to someone there)

• Google
• AIGA
• Zeldman/Happy Cog
• BWAY.net
• Pando
• Razorshark (somebody mentioned at 1st meeting?)
• Panther Express (cks will call)

From last time (copied over from http://barcamp.org/BarCampNYC)

Money Sponsors (Who/what)

• Squidoo / $500-worth of meals
• Userscape / evening of beer!
• Weblogs Work / Meal
• Gel Conference / evening of beers!
• Sean Johnson / Day of liquids
• BackBeat Media / $100 of beers / snacks
• Optaros (Stephen Walli) / $250 wherever needed
• PubSub / $300 for a meal!
• TechnoLawyer / $100
• FireAnt / $100
• Simpy $10^2
• Mozdex $100
• Cropcorp $100
• Joyent $100 / Sunday morning coffee!
• EastMedia $200 / beers, coffee, whatever
• Schematic $200
• Flock $250

Stuff Sponsors

• Stormhoek wines - 2-3 cases of wine!
• RedBull - 10 cases of RedBull + ice barrel
• SXSW Interactive Festival is donating a complimentary registration to the 2006 festival. This will be given for the best presentation at BarCampNYC (determined by vote).
• Simpy (Otis Gospodnetić, really) is giving away 4 copies of Lucene in Action, 2 on each day. Hat draw. Possibly combined with potential Lucene presentation(s) given by others - Lucene presenters, please email me, so we can synchronize this (otis # simpy . com).