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.

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