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Fifth Barcamp Sydney, Saturday June 27th

By Nick Hodge | June 2, 2009

Bar­Camp Sydney is on again. This is our 5th Bar­Camp Sydney and as we are in the midst of the GFC and a reces­sion we’ve decided that this Bar­Camp is the Reces­sion Edi­tion or “the Bar­Camp we had to have” (to para­phrase Keat­ing from 1990). 

In keep­ing with the Reces­sion theme of Bar­Camp there are a few changes to this year’s Bar­Camp. Firstly a new venue, whilst we loved UNSW it was quite expens­ive. Thank­fully the Aus­tralian Tech­no­logy Park (ATP) Innov­a­tions Centre is giv­ing us access to the space for free! Yay!

Secondly, we need to spread the load of the cost of run­ning Bar­Camp across more people so we are ask­ing for indi­vidual spon­sor­ship as well as our tra­di­tional cor­por­ate spon­sor­ship. So what do you get for your indi­vidual spon­sor­ship? Noth­ing really, just the warm fuzzy feel­ing that you get from help­ing run this fant­astic com­munity event. Hope­fully there will still be T-Shirts but that will depend on how much money we raise in spon­sor­ship. How­ever, if you are a cor­por­ate and would like to spon­sor the event please con­tact us ASAP.

Finally, we have a new idea for a few of the ses­sions — the Think Tank room. The Think Tank room is a small room with no pro­jector and no tech — just enough room for a small group of people dis­cuss­ing ideas. And what bet­ter ideas to dis­cuss than ideas about the future. As a res­ult of the recent Future­Sum­mit atten­ded by a few of the local twit­ter­ati, @liubinskas has sug­ges­ted we keep the ideas com­ing with a Future­Camp! There will be a real Future­Camp later in the year but we can start the future dis­cus­sion right here at Bar­Camp Sydney.

There will be more details forth­com­ing about the venue, the logist­ics and how you can register and spon­sor, but for right now please block out Sat­urday June 27 for Bar­Camp Sydney and put your think­ing hats on to present a rip­per of a session.

Keep up to date at the Bar­CampSydney Blog or this email list.

Thanks to Jodie Miners for driv­ing this Bar­camp. Com­munity is fun

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