Invitation to Participate:
BarCamp Sydney will be held on 3rd and 4th of March 2007!
NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS
When you come, be prepared to share with BarCampers.
When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.
BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference 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.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
What's Next?
Sign up on the wiki, tell all your friends, prepare your presentation, ask your company if they're interested in sponsoring, join the mailing list...
http://barcamp.org/BarCampSydney
First Response to Ace Sponsors:
General Info for Potential Sponsors:
About the event
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As you probably know, BarCamp events are an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment - an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.
Two of the best aspects about BarCamp are that everyone must participate (attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way) and all presentations are scheduled the day they happen. This makes for a lively and exciting event.
There have already been a range of very successful BarCamp events in a wide
range of countries, as can be seen here: http://barcamp.org/PreviousBarCamps
Our aim is to hold the Sydney BarCamp at the University of Technology, Sydney. We have no idea of actual numbers at this stage but it could be anywhere from 40 to over 100 people. Based on recent Sydney web-related
events, it is easy to imagine numbers could be high.
Costs involved
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Attached is a spreadsheet with budgets for the Sydney BarCamp with options depending on the number of attendees. As you can see, the coasts have been kept to absolute basics.
What could be in it for you
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Benefits for any sponsor include:
1. Email exposure
Between these different groups we believe we have around 3000 people we will be mailing out to. This email campaign alone means that a large percentage of web developers, designers, managers, user specialist et are all exposed to the sponsors name.
2. Exposure to a wide community
This event will involve a wide range of communities from various aspects of the web including web media and communication people, web designers and developers, usability specialists, information architects, project managers and many more.
3. WIKI and blog exposure
The sponsors name will appear on the WIKI as well as the Sydney blog (http://www.barcampsydney.org/). These web addresses will be sent out with all mail outs and will be heavily hit during the lead-up to the event.
4. At the event
The sponsor would be acknowledged and thanked at the event.
5. Community karma
There is nothing like community karma to add to a companies credibility within the industry. A great opportunity to pick up potential clients as well as impressing existing clients.
We are happy to discuss this further if you need further information.
