It’s been almost 2 weeks since BarCamp and the final figures and bits and bobs of data are finally trickling in.

There were roughly 170 BarCamp attendees.
There were over 275 unique mac addresses at the event.

That means each person on average had approximately 1.6 devices on the wireless network. The busiest time was between lunch and dinner on Saturday.

Heres the bandwidth chart for the weekend:

It’s interesting to note that you can directly correlate the peaks and valleys in the bandwidth chart with the happenings at barcamp.

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Here’s the calendar for Saturday.

Aaaaah! Its in 5 days! What to do?!

First, remember the basics:

• January 16th and 17th
• Intuit, Santa Fe Campus in Carmel Valley

If you need more data, hit the wiki

Want to help the organizers? Get there at 8:30am and help us unload and setup!

See you there!

Barcamp has grown – again. This coming barcamp will be SD 6, which means we’re on our THIRD year of barcamp. Technically, since we had to push BCSD6 to January, we’ll be beginning our FOURTH year.

In the beginning we had to ask for wireless hardware, chairs, extention cords, you name it. As time went on the planning crew better understood what it took to satisfy the barcampers and adapted. I know I’ve personally paid out of pocket more than 3 times to get things covered – and I’m not the only one. This far along though we have a tightly regimented process, and we’ve been using it for nearly 2 years now – it works perfectly.
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So you may be asking yourself – I think I remember hearing something about BarCamp in November….

You’d be right – except when we dusted off our hardhats we found out that year end budgets were tighter than ever, and many companies in town were doing layoffs. It’s remarkably hard to get companies to pay for a BarCamp when they can’t pay their own employees – so we did the sensible thing and scootched BarCamp out to January.

here’s the current lowdown:

• January 16th and 17th
• Intuit, Santa Fe Campus in Carmel Valley

We’ve updated the wiki and created a new Eventbrite Registration Page for BarCamp San Diego 6.

We’re starting collection for sponsorships as well, so if your organization would like to sponsor BarCamp San Diego 6, drop a line to sponsors@barcampsd.org.

That’s it for now! Feel free to log into the wiki and add a proposed talk or host a contest for Saturday Night!

There are some last minute provisions that came up we need to get the word out for:

• We’ve manually backed out every order on eventbrite that contained more than 1 ticket. For Intuits security policies we need every attendees name, so people who got tickets like “Joe smith – 5 tickets” will need to have those extra four people go sign up themselves. This has also opened up a significant amount of spaces too – so more people can come! :)
• Intuit has some policies that they’d like to iterate to all the attendees:
• Attendees must stay within a 20 foot perimeter of the building. Going back to cars in the parking lot is okay, but the rest of the campus is off limits to us (that means the hiking trails, basket ball courts etc)
• Fire codes must be observed: no smoking in the building, and nothing that generates smoke inside the buildings
• Be responsible with alcohol consumption
• Do not attempt to enumerate the network. Be nice. This isnt a hacker con (viss is watching. he controls your packets)

Thats it! Short n sweet. We need everyones eyeballs on this, so please repost, retweet etc.

T minus NINE DAYS until its time to camp, folks!

Here are the basics:

• Sign up here: http://barcampsd5.eventbrite.com/
• Check out or contribute to our wiki here: http://barcampsd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Here’s some more

• We made our budget numbers!
• There is room for another 119 people (right this second)
• We have enterprise grade wifi for the event! (Aruba provided)
• We still need an Intuit employee to spend the night so that we can spend the night there.
• We need an accurate count in eventbrite. It looks like some people double and triple signed up. Could you check your registration to see if we have an accurate head count?

We’ll provide more updates here as they become available.

Howdy Barcampers!

So we’re about 30 days out and the numbers are in – we’re still short on funds so we’ve started taking up a collection to try and make our figures.

We’ve setup a Fundable.com account to collect donations to make our figures. Fundable is awesome because if the figure we’re looking for isn’t reached – nobody pays a dime. If the figure IS reached, then everyone pays.

Alternatively, if you’d like to make a direct donation, or if you work for a company that would benefit from sponsoring barcamp (read: any company), have any questions about what sort of awesome incentives there are for sponsoring a barcamp or are wondering how much value there is in sponsorship – drop us a line at sponsors@barcampsd.org!

Howdy Campers! Its been 6 months and it’s time for another BarCamp! This seasons BarCamp will be held at Intuit again! The last event went over smashingly well and Intuit warmly welcomed us back.

Here are some details:

• WHEN: May 30th and 31st
• WHERE: Intuit Campus, Carmel Valley
• HOW: With Cashy money! We’re still looking for sponsorship!

We’re currently working on a new system for registration so that nobody has to mess with the wiki markup anymore, and we’ve actually set up our own wiki so that we are fully in control of our own documentation.(www.barcampsd.org/wiki – you must register to make changes).

Thats it for now! Any help you guys can lend us a hand by spreading the word about the event and sending potential sponsors our way (have them email sponsors@barcampsd.org) would be greatly appreciated!

Stay tuned for more info soon!

Barcamp went off without a hitch, as per the norm and everyone that I talked to had a most excellent time. There was the typical nuissance of there being too many people on one wireless access point (internet slower than preferred, range issues), so conversations were had with some folks about getting our hands on some true enterprise grade wireless (cisco aironet or aruba hardware), that has the capacity to properly load balance and distribute traffic across multiple radios. I did however save a whole bunch of data from the firewall, which was a different configuration than last time. I’ll have a post written up about that on shortly.