BarcampSD-1: Save the date!
Posted by Lisa
In an amazing feat of unrelenting diplomacy, hober and factoryjoe (ye olde Barcamp founder) aligned the nearly-factioning Barcamp San Diego group into one lean, mean, barcamp-planning machine. It will be happening on June 2/3 at Technical Training Resources in Miramar. Check either Upcoming.org or Eventful.com for directions.
Thank you everyone for your hard work that is making this event happen!
Trying to wrangle venues
Posted by Dan
Wow. I’ve been at this for a couple days and I’ve identified the following places:
* Westwood Club
* 4S Ranch Boys and Girls club
* Rancho Bernardo Recreation Center
* Epicenter (venue)
* Jumping Turtle (venue)
* Technical Training Resources (training facility)
Most of them I’ll need to follow up with because I was unable to actually talk to anybody of any consequence. If you know someone who can help me out with this, Ill buy you a beer :)
There was a lot of talk on irc today about logos and design, but I think we got a couple good ideas pinned down.
If anyone knows a good way to go about contacting sponsors, that also would be most helpful!
AAaaaaaaand, I’ve taken the Old/Temporary wiki page and merged it with the Official wiki page - The one we’ve been editing has a to-do list, and some more granular level tasks. Hopefully it will illuminate to everyone whats been going on behind the scenes since we came on board.
I’ll post more data as it comes in! we’re always around on irc on irc.freenode.net in #barcampsd
Feel free to drop by and say hello!
–Dan
Site under construction omg! </1997>
Posted by Lisa
Hi, this is Lisa, and I’d like to get a few housekeeping items out of the way while this site is being constructed.
Purpose: First and foremost, this site is designed to be a blog for the organizers of Barcamp San Diego to share their ideas and reflections on the event. There’s links to the existing content that has been generated by the community, and I plan to have a (hopefully ajax) irc client up Real Soon Now ™.
Ownership: Yeah, Dan and I kinda “run” this site for now, but every user who registers at least has posting privileges, so don’t think this is our personal little broadcast channel. If you feel you have something to contribute to this medium, by all means do so! (Oh yeah, the person who created this theme apparently didn’t consider it important to include a link to the registration page, so use this for now: http://www.barcampsd.org/wp-register.php)
Future: This site can become a lot of things. First and foremost, there’s a lot of little things that need to be fixed…no registration link, no attribution for posts, stuff like that. It will at least expand as needed on what you see here today. I would like to see this site also become sort of a home base for event operations…think of how exciting a real-time ajax scheduling application could be, or what the possibilities are for an integrated event messaging system. But really, if anyone has ideas that make you go “man, it would be cool if barcamp did that” that some bit of hostable code could fulfill, let me know and we can get a dev team together.
So anyway, hopefully everything is covered enough for now until the website gets into shape. Happy organizing!
Barcamp SD Alpha!
Posted by Dan
Hello Everyone!
I’m please to announce that we’ve joined the ranks of organizers for Barcamp San Diego.
We’re thinking about a military theme because, well, lets face it - we’re a military town.
You can find us on irc at irc.freenode.net in #barcampsd
and our wiki page at http://www.barcamp.org/BarcampSD-1
The original wikipage is located at http://www.barcamp.org/BarcampSanDiego - We didn’t want to disturb stuff that was already in progress or stalled.
We’re still doing discovery at the moment, and basically figuring out which way is up.
Big props to the folks from barcampLA who are helping out during our discovery/planning phase!
–Dan








