Thanks to StickerGiant.com, we’ve got 500 spiffy BarCamp stickers to give away!

Luke Mysse, at Crossgrain Creative Studios, rocked out the tentpole design.

We whipped up a flyer for folks who want to promote BarCamp San Diego ’round the office, etc. Available in color and grayscale versions.

We’re officially announcing BarCamp San Diego 3!

The last two BarCamps were a lot of fun, but we think number three is going to be special. We’ve got a couple of well-known tech rockstars coming. There’s an all new DefCamp challenge. The Wii Bowling Tournament is back. Folks coming down from BarCamp LA. Free t-shirts, food, and beer. It’s going to rock!

Dates

BarCamp is happening May 3 - 4. Just like last time, this is a weekend event. We’ll start Saturday morning, and finish up late Sunday afternoon.

Venue

Technical Training Resources has been beyond gracious for hosting our first two BarCamps, but our little San Diego tech community is wearing big boy pants now and had to find a new home.

This time around we’ll be invading the spacious, cozy offices at Microsoft, in La Jolla [map].

There’s plenty of free parking in the lot, but remember that carpooling and public transportation earn just as much good karma as free cupcakes.

Registration

If you’re coming to BarCamp San Diego, add your name and talk topic to our official wiki. Registration really happens on-site, but adding your name will help us know approximately how many folks to expect and what folks will be talking about.

Sponsors

BarCamp would be a couple of geeks out on the sidewalk with a projector and a pizza if it weren’t for our sponsors, and we sure do appreciate all the love and money it takes to feed and clothe so many people for a weekend.

We’re really pleased to have so many companies sponsoring this time. Microsoft, DivX, Opera, SureFire, LAMPhost.net, SuggestionBox.com, MindTouch, Integral Impressions, Achieve Internet, digitaria, StickerGiant.com, Startup Schwag, Starbucks, and Technical Training Resources. Thanks, guys!

Start preparing now

Even the most decentralized ad-hocracy can benefit from a little forethought on what each individual can contribute.

The session board will be broken down into 30 minute blocks available on a first come basis, but feel free to go nuts on it if you only want 15 minutes or think you’re awesome enough to take up an hour. Don’t know what you have to offer?

Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Demo a product that you’re passionate about
• Prepare a few open questions for a roundtable
• Show off something you’ve built or hacked
• Gather with a few friends for a topic-centered panel
• Present research of your own or from someone you’ve been following
• Or you can always just get up with a deck and ramble for a while

Don’t feel that you have to be on the bleeding edge of Web 2.0 development technologies to be well received at BarCamp.

San Diego’s community also includes hackers, linguists (who are all quite cunning, I hear), photographers, bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, knitters, and ninjas.

The more different genres of knowledge are floating around during BarCamp, the more everyone gets more out of the weekend.

Help us get the word out!

Joshua Brewer made these gorgeous blog badges, so hurry up and show ‘em off on your blog, create a post, and use all the social media tools you have at your disposal to spread the message to every geeky creative type that you know.

Drag ‘em to your desktop. Or download the whole bunch.

Get involved

Thanks to the work of a whole slew of brilliant people, there are now dozens of San Diego meetups and ways to congregate online with the BarCampSD kids.

Here are a few to get you started:

• Sign up for the mailing list
• Follow @barcampsd on twitter for up to the minute updates
• Add yourself and follow members of the BarCampSD twitter pack
• Party in the IRC backchannel on freenode.net #barcampsd
• Join the BarCampSD Facebook group
• Read about local entrepreneurs and all kinds of events that geeks like on startupsd.net

Go forth and blog, San Diego, and check back soon for schedule details and volunteering opportunities.

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.

Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati, etc:

• barcampsd
• barcampsd2
• defcamp

I’m pleased to announce that the planning crew has begun meeting and going over the initial data points of getting BarCamp San Diego 2 off the ground!

Current News:
• Tentative Date: Nov 10/11 (dependent on venue)
• Sponsor roundup has begun!: Want to sponsor barcamp? let us know! we have a wide variety of sponsorship options available!
• Current Venue Ideas: We’ve begun the search for a venue, so if you have any leads for us, please let us know! All avenues will be explored.
• Current Information: Our wiki page has been updated to reflect the newest information after our first meeting! Visit http://barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiego
• Stay tuned for more updates!

Feel free to join us on irc! We’ve created a space for the Barcamp SD community to hang out on irc and chit chat!

• irc.freenode.net
• #barcampsd

Hey Everyone.

BarcampSd is only three days out! I hope you have some idea of what you want to talk about, I know I do :)

Oh, we’ll need people who have ipod nano gen2 or later, or video ipods to bring fully charged ipods. Belkin was kind enough to give us 6 ‘tune talk’ radios which can be plugged into ipods to record sessions.

I’m jazzed, how about you?

Participatory gathering of geeks has received commitments from new sponsors and continues to seek more
San Diego, CA 21 May, 2007

BarCamp San Diego has officially signed six sponsors for the June 2-3 event. wiseGEEK, Opera, Divx, Joyent, Microsoft, and MindTouch have each committed financial support to San Diego’s first BarCamp.

BarCamp is an event where alpha geeks, industry professionals and others passionate about internet culture, technology, and life online can meet and share ideas and projects. It is built on the philosophy that anyone who builds or uses the internet on a regular basis has something to learn and something to teach, so every attendee is also expected to be a presenter.

Traditionally, BarCamp events are free to the attendees, based on the help of industry sponsors who provide funds to pay for such necessities as food, beer, and internet access hardware. BarCamp San Diego has raised about 50% of its projected budget, and continues to seek sponsorships from anyone interested in tapping into this highly active and creative community of geeks.

The existing sponsors vary as much in size of business as they do in geography. DivX (http://www.divx.com/) is a San Diego-based electronic media company. MindTouch (http://www.mindtouch.com/) is a local business-services start up, located in the Little Italy section of San Diego. Joyent (http://joyent.com/) is a northern California-based company that builds collaboration and communication tools. wiseGEEK (http://www.wisegeek.com/) is a remotely-managed informational question and answer content site, with contributors from all over the globe. Opera (http://www.opera.com/) is an Oslo, Norway-based company responsible for creating the well-respected web browser of the same name. Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx) is a well-known software company based in Redmond, Washington.

In addition to these companies who donated money, BarCamp is being sponsored by Technical Training Resources (http://www.technicaltrainingresources.com/index.php), who will be providing the facilities for the gathering. TTR has given BarCamp access to all three of its classrooms, as well as parking lot and courtyard areas which will be used for presentations and other activities.

For more information about sponsoring BarCamp San Diego, please visit http://barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiegoSponsors or contact Dan Tentler at sponsors@barcampsd.org or 858.382.7821.

About BarCamp San Diego:
San Diego’s first BarCamp event will take place on June 2-3, 2007 at Technical Training Resources, 6920 Miramar Rd., Suite 105, San Diego, CA 92121. The planning committee is comprised entirely of the following volunteers: Matthew Bosworth, Lisa Brewster, Patrick Crowley, Ryan Felton, Alex Kawas, Lindsay LaShell, Billy Marsh, Edward O’Connor, Phelan Riessen, Harry Slaughter, and Dan Tentler.

Yes, many of them! We’ve pinned down a logo, a date, and a venue. We’re rockin and rollin!

We have a document prepared to send to potential sponsors, so if you know any place that might be willing
to help us out with BarCamp San Diego, please drop a line to sponsors@barcampsd.org!

The planning team is meeting every monday to get all of our loose ends finalized, so we’ll keep the blog
and the wiki all up to date with our findings!

This is the link to the poll in our Yahoo Groups area.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BarCampSanDiego/surveys?id=12563763
Happy Voting!

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So outside of the slight snag that the date/time we chose was somehow randomly the same date/time as the ‘tapping event’ the venue was holding where they passed out free beer - all was great! We ended up having to move shop to Chevys in the same parking lot

Once we all got our food and drinks it was down to business. We seemingly rifled through all the tasks and assigned work, decided on a date and venue and only left the tshirts and logos on the table to be done.

Heres the Loadout:

Project Manager (aka Cat Herder): Patrick/moko
Sponsor Wrangler: Dan/viss
Public Relations: Lindsey
Budget: Alex/emp and Patrick
Shirts: Billy/cannibal and Phelan
Blog: Lisa/adora
Logo: waiting for Enrique/nrek to throw a few more in the pot