CommunityCamp (aka Dallas Community Leadership Summit)
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The Community Leadership Summit is tomorrow!
(Pre-Event meet up is tonight!)
Attending?
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Attending tomorrow – please double check your FaceBook event page RSVP (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7209391517) Thanks!
Thinking of attending? Not sure? What? This is going to be the biggest and best event of its kind ever! How often do you get the opportunity to mix and meet with people from across the region who are doing what you are doing, but that you normally wouldn’t ever run in to. How often does the JAVA UG leader sit down with the .NET UG leader? How often does Adam Keys (Ruby Brigade) chat things over with the BarCamp guys (ok.. that actually does happen… a lot) You catch my drift. Tomorrow is going to be a rawken good time where you’ll learn a TON, meet an incredible group of people and have a great time! (Still not sure? Stop by tonight to check things out at the pre-event meet up)
Sponsors
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We’d like to specifically call out our awesome sponsors that have really stepped up to make this a great event!
- INETA (http://ineta.org)
- Improving Enterprises, Inc (http://ImprovingEnterprises.com)
- Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com)
- O’Rielly Publishing (http://www.oreilly.com/)
Without these guys we wouldn’t have a place to meet, food to eat, caffeine to drink, bags to hold the swag to whatever… you get the idea. These guys are awesome! Thanks!!
New Sponsors? Send them our way!
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In spite of the Heroic effort of our great sponsors, we have had a couple of areas where we’ve fallen short and have had to put up personal funds to pull this event together. (No t-shirts this year guys. Sorry Stickers/Decals yes, t-shirts no.) If you would like to help out the broad technology community that we are pulling together for this event, or no someone that would. Please have them contact myself or Sean Godfrey (contact at the end of this email). Any amount right now helps… and anyone wishing to sponsor a closing dinner /mixer event should contact us right away! Thanks!!
Friday Night Mixer!!
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Several people have asked if we could get together to meet each other a little less informally before the weekend begins. We are planning on being at STING in Dallas (about a block from the Improving Office) Friday (tonight!) from 7pm until 9pm. Stop by for a drink and to chit chat it up before the “official” CLS kick off! (BYOT: Bring Your Own Tab ;)
Where:
Sting Dallas (http://www.stingdallas.com)
15240 Dallas Pkwy, Dallas, TX
(972) 386-0888
When:
Friday Night, 7pm – 9pm
Saturday Night Mixer??
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We are STILL considering a Sponsored Saturday night mixer to blow off some steam and have a great time Saturday night. We just need one, two or three sponsors that want to save our bacon on this! (see above and contact us!)
Topics of Interest
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Have you checked the Wiki lately? (http://barcamp.org/CommunityCamp)
Some of the topics proposed for tomorrow:
• On-line vs Offline
• Corporate User Groups
• Working with people
• Non-profit 501.C status
• Building healthy sponsor relationships
• Running a User Group
• Effective Content and Presenters
• User Group Promotion
• Developing Partnerships
• Finding locations
• Promoting and growing your group
• Corporate user groups: excellence from within (building a culture of excellence)
• Video / audio podcasting : practical steps to increase your reach
• Building healthy long-lasting communities, etc…
• Balancing technical and social skills
• Growing beyond grassroots
• Mobilizing influentials (Roundtable)
Saturday Agenda
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8:30 – 9:00 am – arrive, grab some breakfast, check in, say hello.
9:00 – 9:30 – Post Sessions on Board, Plan Day (as a group), Rearrange Schedule as Needed.
Sessions, Sessions, Sessions
12: - 1pm – Lunch with Lunch Panel
Session, Sessions, Sessions
4:30 pm – Close Up, Wrap Up, Discuss Community Action Items
5pm – Say Goodbye – see you at the evening mixer!!??
Lunch Panel and Internet Broadcast
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We’re pulling together a panel discussion around Social Media and Building Community for tomorrow at Lunch. Most likely this will be recorded and probably Live Meeting’d over the Internet Airwaves…
Parking, Wireless and Contact Info
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When you arrive at the Improving Enterprises building, you can park in the visitor parking section. If that is full you the code ------ (call me for the code - CJ) to access the parking garage. We have WiFi turned on, the SSID is ----- (ditto on the Wifi - CJ). If you have any issues on site, please feel free to contact me or Sean Godfrey (Sean is handling most of the onsite logistics for us – Thanks Sean!
Sean Godfrey
Cell: 469.261-7123
Email: sean.godfrey@improvingenterprises.com
(Email Sean to let him know that you are available to help!)
Me: Caleb Jenkins
Cell: 469.867.4552
Email: caleb.jenkins@improvingenterprises.com
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- Flying to Dallas – Great Special *
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If you STILL haven’t bought your plane ticket, then now’s the time. We received a great one time use special from American Airlines – if you are flying FROM Dallas. Yeah! (o0)
- See you tonight and Saturday!
