So SDG&E had to do emergency maintenance which forced us to have to move the date.

The new date is now October 13th and 14th, and we’re set to go!
Challenge coins got ordered and they’re on the way as well!

But I have a treat for you guys: we’re releasing the art for the badge and the shirts early, and opening up the ticket purchases until Sunday at midnight! That gives you Friday and the whole weekend to throw down!

Peep this:

You guys should cruise here, and register for a shirt and a badge: http://barcampsd10.eventbrite.com

.. its the right thing to do.

Intuit has informed me today that SDG&E has a planned power outage for 6 hours on the Saturday of BarCamp (Oct 6th). This make the venue unavailable for BarCamp during the power outage (there are liability issues letting us in there with no power).

This gives us very little time to do rapid course correction.

I’m currently in negotiations with Intuit to allow us to use another building/floor/etc. They’ve already stated that there is nowhere else on the campus that is the same size. I can forsee several possible outcomes:

- We find space on that campus they’re comfortable letting us use (this would be a win, but we’d have to ‘reshape’ how we operate in a new space)
- We find another venue sponsor in the two weeks before the event so we can keep the date
- We reschedule with Intuit for the weekend of Oct 13th (the following weekend)
- We reschedule further out (possibly November.. or January)

Since this is our community and this is our conference I’d like to hear from the community. I want to hear from you guys. What should we as the planners do?

Feel free to leave a comment below, or email us privately (sponsors@barcampsd.org) or our public mailing list (barcampsd@googlegroups.com)

Greetings barcampers!

We’re now less than 30 days out from BCSD10 on October 6th and 7th!
Here are some updates!

• Sponsor dollars have started rolling in, check out who’s supporting San Diego culture!
• We’re at something like %30 of our target figure, so we’re still looking for sponsors!
• There has been activity on the Wiki, check it out!
• Register here

Registration: http://barcampsd10.eventbrite.com

Wiki: http://barcampsd.org/wiki

Note: Since we’ve had some issues with spam on the wiki, new registrations for the wiki will have to come through us – if you would like an account on the wiki, please email dan@atenlabs.com with your requested email/user, and a temporary password will be sent to you so you may log in and change it, then make changes to the wiki.

Same rules as last year: $10 fee for those of you who would like a shirt, a badge, and first dibs on food – otherwise the event is free and anybody may walk in – walk ins are ineligible for shirts or badges.

The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things! Of coding, robots, beer and life! Of making and hacking!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have made it all the way to BarCamp 10. This is indeed a time to celebrate. Our community has grown by orders of magnitude and it couldn’t have done so without BarCampers like yourselves!

In celebration of our achievement (not killing each other, burning down the entire city or resurrecting the dead…) I ask you all to help make BarCamp San Diego 10 our most awesome BarCamp yet.

Here’s the rough plan:

• Tshirts and Badges like the last couple times, paid for by folks buying tickets
• Some epic food, after seeing the performance of the newest food trucks at places like Lost Abbey our confidence in them is much greater
• Challenge coins – Haven’t decided if the should just be handed to ticket buyers, or available for purchase..

We’ll need all the help we can get finding sponsors! If you, your organization, your friends organization, your alien leaders, your robot overlords, the voices in your head, or the hobo with a roll of 20′s have an interest in being part of arguably the largest community in San Diego and making a ton of friends and connections, please inquire within!

We’re planning on doing the same thing with the paid/free admission this time. To be absolutely clear:

If you don’t want to pay, that’s fine – you can just walk in. You don’t have to sign up anywhere. BarCamp is *FREE*

Paying buys you cuts in line for food, your shirt, and your badge (and possibly a challenge coin, once we work that out)

Stay tuned for a follow up post on registration and the wiki!

Greetings Barcampers!

The time for barcamp is .. well.. around September! That’s at least what we’re targeting for BCSD10.

We’d like to start very early, and try to secure budgets, attendance, the venue – pretty much everything we need to pull the trigger on the event way ahead of time, because … ten barcamps! TEN! I think we did BarCamp San Diego 1 back in 2007 and some of the first emails I have are from around April. Next month that will be 5 years!

Lets make BarCamp San Diego 10 epic. I’m thinking shirts, badges and fancy challenge coins. Sound neat? I think it sounds neat.

I’ll start pinging the usual suspects in terms of sponsors and venue, and all you awesome readers out there can help out by spreading the word about BarCamp San Diego or helping find local companies that would benefit from being involved with BarCamp.

I’ll also be marking up the wiki with the newest information. I strongly suggest you join the mailing list if you haven’t already – its where all the BarCamp discussion happens!

Interested in finding out more?
- Check out our WIKI
- Check out the MAILING LIST
- Drop us a line! sponsors@barcampsd.org

Registration is now open!

http://barcampsd9.eventbrite.com

We’re playing by the same playbook as last season, since it went over so well.

*** REG CLOSES ONE WEEK BEFORE BARCAMP ***
We have to close reg a week before the event so we have enough time to print the shirts and assemble the badges, so please remember to register before the close of reg to ensure you get your badge and shirt. If you’re fine without a badge or shirt, walk ups are free and not required to register – but the security guards at Intuit will be stopping all walk-ins and getting ID and registering them as guests of Intuit, so it’s in your best interest to register!

Stay tuned for more details as they become available!

We’re also still looking for more sponsorship as well, so if your organization is interested please drop us a line at: sponsors@barcampsd.org

Hello campers!

Here are two PDF files we’ve prepared to help spread the word and get information out about BarCamp this season.

The ‘what is barcamp’ PDF is for anybody who’d like some basic info, and it links folks to this site – it’s for places like inside an elevator or break room.

The ‘sponsor request’ pdf is for any person/business/org/etc that has an interest in sponsoring this time around!

We’re working on a slightly shorter time line this time around, so expect us to be a lot more vocal.

p.s.: Ignore the date in the green graphic at the top of the site, we still need to update that :D

Hello campers!

(every time I say that I nostaliga back to the game starcon2. You oldschool gamers know.)

We’ve heard from Intuit and both BCSD9 AND 10 have been approved! For now we’re going to make BCSD9 happen and leave the planning of 10 for later, but rest assured it’ll be at Intuit!

We’ve dotted our i’s and crossed our t’s and its time now for sponsor roundup! We’ll be working feverishly to churn out some cool one pager documents to help spread the word and show sponsors what kind awesome ROI they get for their investments. If you work for a company that you might think would have some interest in BarCamp here in town, please let us know! email sponsors@barcampsd.org and we’ll be happy to give you all the information we have that is up to date. Until we finish shining that stuff to a mirror polish, heres a post we made a while back describing the sponsor process, its pretty juicy!

Stuff that worked: People *LOVED* the badges. Huge thanks go out to Geo for hooking us up with the folks to make that happen, and we’ll be doing them again. The $10 thing also helped tremendously, so we’ll also be doing that again

This season lets try something new: Everyone think of something thats never been to BarCamp before, and lets bring it to the table! I’m going to try and beg/borrow/steal/coerse/bribe some cool speakers into coming to BarCamp to give talks on neat and interesting things. What will you do?

Got cool ideas? Let us know! Were on twitter as @barcampsd and you can always email us at sponsors@barcampsd.org!

Stay tuned for all the juicy infoz!

-the elusive barcamp monkeys

Greetings, fellow campers!

BarCamp San Diego 8 is quickly approaching! Here are the deets
Date January 15th and 16th, 2011
Location Same as Last Time: Intuits Santa Fe campus – 7545 Torrey Santa Fe Road, San Diego Ca 92129
Cost $10 (let us explain…)

So last seasons BarCamp went off wonderfully! Only problems were that 357 people signed up and less than 200 actually showed – then about half of our food mysteriously disappeared. Two logistical quirks that we think we’ve been able to nail down with a slight tweak to the format of BarCamp.

This time the event costs $10 – but thats a soft cost – If you only want to come for a couple hours on Sunday or something, thats fine – you can come for free. Here’s the tug:

We wanted to give people who are completely committed to the event the first run at T-shirts, food and all the goodies and gimmies that come with the event. We wanted to avoid the possibility that people who contribute so much to the event won’t get dinner, or won’t get a shirt. This year there will be badges. The badges cost $10 and earn you ‘first run’ at the food and the t-shirts. Once all badged attendees get a first serving of food, unbadged attendees may partake. Registration is absolutely mandatory even for unbadged folks – we have to keep track of who came to the event so that we can adjust the scale of the event up/down based on the figures. The more track we keep, the better the event gets!

We’ll have our own registration area this time as well so that we can keep track of how many people show up and who got badges. The badges will have a detachable star in the center allowing attendees to turn it in for Saturdays dinner (or thats the idea anyway, we’re still figuring that out)

People who sign up early can even get their names/handles on the badges as well, making them a unique take-away

How awesome is that?!

Feedback is totally welcome – for a short period we had a discussion about format on our mailing list!

We’re also still on the hunt for more sponsors – so if you have any questions about sponsorship or are curious what it entails or what its benefits are, please by all means inquire within!