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

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

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