Thanks to everyone that came along to the Exeter on Monday November 2nd. A few attendees were sick or couldn’t make it, but sent their regards. Here’s a somewhat long but informative summary of what we discussed – if you couldn’t make it your comments and feedback about the meeting on this post are greatly appreciated.

Final Reflection of the last BarCamp:

Problems were:

• Space (now being sorted with new venue)
• Time (each session will stick to strict time limits)
• Internet (many people who can organise this if needed)
• Building Access (also a new venue)

List of businesses we could potentially approach for involvement in 2010

• Internode (expressed interest in 09)
• ElectraNet (as above)
• Optus/Vodafone/Telstra
• O’Reilly Publishing
• ACP Publishing`
• Google/Yahoo/Microsoft
• Print Media (Messenger, Advertiser, APC Magazine etc)
• Dymocks

If sponsors would like to come along, this is fine, however

• We’d prefer techies rather than marketing people from any sponsors who would like to send someone to present.
• This doesn’t mean they can’t send someone along, they just need to be mindful of how they deliver their presentation.
• We’d love to have reps from companies that don’t choose to sponsor us
• General consensus amongst us is marketing people will cause attendees to feel like they are being sold something, which is not the aim of BarCamp
• We’d like to hear about how they developed the product more than what it costs on a 24 month contract (as an example).

We would also like to invite other organisations such as non-profits and charities to share with us how they are using the internet to complement their work.

Your Feedback Required: Should we have sponsorship packages drawn up (ie, $xxx gets you this), or alternatively name things we require or would like to have, and organisations can sponsor specific areas. (?)

Supplies

Things we need / would be excellent at BarCamp

• T-Shirts (maybe these can have the sponsors names on them?)
• Pens / Paper (maybe also supplied by one of the sponsors, with their branding)
• Company goodies! Maybe USB sticks or some cool little cheap gadgets. Last year we had lanyards, maybe we could do something similar again, still some left over (we think).
• Whiteboard for open grid scheduling at the beginning of the day
• Projector or large screen for Twitter wall (tracking BarCamp Adelaide tweets #bcad)
• Food and drink for the day. If this includes liquor for post-BarCamp mingling, we may need a license for that (apparently ~$35)
• Other things that aren’t currently listed.. but I’m sure we’ll think of it

Date

Avoiding all the major events in the first quarter of the year (one is in the middle of the Fringe, but BarCamp is on during the day so it shouldn’t be a huge problem).

Other Saturdays in this area have the Clipsal 500 (13th March) and the SA State Election (20th March) which are probably good to avoid.

Here’s the three potential dates and the events that these Saturdays share:

• February 20th
• March 6th (same time as Womadelaide, Fringe and Arts Festivals)
• March 27th (Relay For Life)

BarCamp Adelaide will run from 9am-5pm with drinks and games etc after 5pm. Registration will be at 9am sharp this year and sessions will commence at 9:30am.

That’s about it – we would love your feedback and suggestions to add to this discussion list, please leave your comments on this post!