BarCamp San Diego 7 is 11 days away!
Here’s a quick preview of what you can expect:

There are still spaces available! As I type this, we’re at approximately 180 out of a possible 350 available seats. If you haven’t registered yet, please check out the wiki (link above) for the registration information!

Some things to remember:

• Business cards / moo cards
• Laptop + power
• Sleeping bag/tent/something (if you plan on staying overnight)
• And most importantly: an open mind!
• A fun and/or entertaining presentation!

And a few bullet points since we’re on a corporate campus

• Smoking is only permitted in the smoking areas. The security staff can direct you to where they are
• If you’re going to open a bottle of wine, use a bottle opener, not the wall *GLARE*
• There is no roughhousing permitted. At all. If you want to wrestle, do it in the parking lot.
• Be responsible with alcohol consumption. If you aren’t security will disappear you.
• Do not attempt to plug networking devices into any of the open cat5 jacks on the wall. Again, you’ll get disappeared by security
• BarCamp will have its own additional security staff this season. They have the same authority as Intuit security.
• This place is an office where people will be coming in to work the following Monday, so lets treat it with respect.

See you all in 11 days!

Howdy Barcampers!

BarCamp San Diego 7 is upon the horizon. It’s slated for July 10th and 11th at the Intuit Campus in Carmel Valley.

We’re currently in the sponsor-roundup phase – here are the deets:

Its 6 weeks out and we’ve only made about half our budget. If your company, your employer or your friends may have an interest in sponsoring BarCamp please drop us a line : sponsors@barcampsd.org

The details are almost the same this time around:

1) Primary Sponsorship – $1000+
2) Secondary Sponsorship– $750-1000
3) Tertiary Sponsorship – $300-$750

Visa Gift Cards or Checks made out to Dan Tentler (the sponsor/budget guy) are the preferred methods of payment. This gives us the fluidity to combine smaller contributions from sponsors with other smaller contributions to afford the things that make barcamp awesome!

Alternatively you can elect to sponsor one of our ‘direct vendor’ costs:

1) T-Shirts – $1500
2) Lunch Sunday afternoon Sponsored by DiVX
3) Lunch Saturday afternoon Sponsored by Yahoo
4) Dinner Saturday Night – $1500
5) Snacks – $1100
6) Beer Sponsored by 2guysdrink

You may be seeing some rather large names up there on the sponsor dockett – Thats because these folks smile when it comes time for BarCamp San Diego – our community is so fruitful and awesome that these wonderful folks acknowledge it by helping bring everyone together to share ideas and new technologies. They lead by example!

There are some folks on the mailing list that have talked about recording every talk – and we’ve also heard from another awesome individual who would like to record every single talk and publish them online a-la defcon-style talks – very high resolution and with cuts over to the slides so the folks at home can see all the details. So far BarCamp San Diego 7 is stacking up to be a mammoth, but we still need help!

Looking for a job? These heavy-hitters use BarCamp San Diego as a recruiting depot – so spruce up that resume!

Looking for a gig? BarCamp is full of of folks who need someone that does exactly what you do.

Looking for talent? BarCamp is packed to the gills full of it – come say hello to a future employee or contractor!

and for all you perl/regex/coders out there: s/barcamp/talent exchange/g

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!

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!

And thats coming up soon!

Here are some things to consider

• Camping IS ALLOWED! Bring a sleeping bag! :D
• Be courteous to fellow campers – dont torrent, or use p2p software on the barcamp wifi
• The wiki is the registration roster for Intuit Security – If you’re not on it you cannot get in. If you haven’t signed up already, do it here
• There is ample power all over the place!
• Come early (9am), nosh on some breakfast, and help us set up!

There are some additional rules that our venue sponsor has asked us to instantiate:

• Alcohol consumption must be moderated – we will be passing out drink tickets, and there will be a droid manning the keg (need a volunteer for this!)
• Safety conditions: There will be both security personnel and intuit employees on site to help maintain a high level of safety
• BarCamp is limited to the first floor – please do not attempt to obtain access to any other floors

Given the previous track record of BarCamp, nobody is expecting anything out of the ordinary. Lets keep on our streak of successful and pleasant barcamps and show Intuit how awesome of a community we are!

This time around we should have floorplan maps printed up on the walls to show everyone where the food, snack, presentation and restroom areas are.

Greetings campers!

BarCamp San Diego 4 is upon us, this time at Intuit’s campus (link/map) in Carmel Valley.

There are a ton of activities planned for Saturday evening, somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 campers signed up so far on our wiki. It’s happening in the middle of November (the 15th and 16th), so make sure you have no plans!

This season we can only have 250 people total at the event, so if you’d like to come, please make your way to the wiki and add yourself. The venue is using the wiki as the official roster for who is going.

Things are lining up nicely – The planners are getting excited, the sponsors are getting REALLY excited and you should be too :)

here are some pictures of the venue!

The time is upon us once again for DefCamp!

This time all the stops have been pulled out:

• No Hints
• Be aware of your surroundings, shouldersurfing and ‘recon missions’ against other teams are permitted. You’re hackers, remember?
• Teams must be registered before the event to participate
• Prizes are larger
• Challenges are harder
• There are dead ends
• All clues are there for a reason – skipping clues means you’ll fall behind

Currently there are only two teams signed up on the wiki, there’s still time to go sign up!

Take a look at our wiki for the rest of the details!

www.barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiego

Also, check out the pictures from last time.

The time is upon it once again for another round of BarCamp in San Diego!

Here are the deets:

• When
  November 10 – 11, 2007
  10am Saturday through 5pm Sunday

• Where
  Technical Training Resources
  6920 Miramar Rd., Suite 105, San Diego, CA 92121

What to bring

• Laptop + power cord
• Sleeping bag + pillow + tent?
• Bean Bag Chairs, Beach chairs, and other fun stuff
• Cool stuff to share with new friends
• New ideas, new product demos
• Games for the evening
• A sharp wit for the contest!

Barcamp Contest: DefCamp!
-by Dan Tentler

Barcamps little slice of Defcon!
Think you have what it takes to hack/google/ninja your way past my challenges to the prizes?
No skimpy prizes this time around. This is for real!
Recruiting 5 teams of 3. Prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Contest details will be announced during one of my talks. Be prepared to to be challenged!

Get involved

• Sign up for the mailing list.
• Join us in IRC at freenode.net #barcampsd.
• Join the Facebook group and meet interested people.

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