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

Get your tents, sleeping bags, laptops, ipods and any other gear you’ll want and head to San Diego!

Currently underway: Barcampsd brigade is terraforming Technical Training Resources for use!

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?

I just marked up the schedule in hCalendar. Check it out

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

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

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!

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