Hey All, Just a friendly reminder that BarCampManchester is this Saturday from 9:30am to 4:00pm at UNH Manchester. We will be taking over most of the third...
Cool. I really enjoyed the previous BCMs and am planning to drive up from the Boston area (I'm in Davis Sq.) tomorrow morning. If anyone wants to carpool and...
Good news for BarCampBoston4! Although all the paperwork isn't filled out yet to make things super-official, we've secured a room reservation for the main...
Hi all, Quick question. Does anybody here have experience using a netbook, such as a Samsung NC10, as a daily "workhorse" laptop? I spend a lot of time writing...
RSVP: http://anyvite.com/events/home/c5gmsfufia/barcamp-boston-4-organizers-dinner Interested in helping make BarCamp Boston 4 -- coming up on April 25-26,...
Here's the report from our organizer dinner yesterday. Feel free to raise any questions or points of discussion here on the mailing list. IN ATTENDANCE During...
As this year's sponsorship wrangler, I've started looking back at what we've done in past years. Currently, we have five sponsorship levels ($250, $350, $400,...
Hello Jon (& the list), The new sponsorship levels look good to me. I think there might be occasions when it's easier for a sponsor to give something concrete,...
I'm happy to help out at the registration/info desk again this year. It would be great to have 5-7 other people helping out at the desk, too. If you know...
Simplifying a bit would be good. I think selling specific meal/snack slots is good, though, because sponsors can easily visualize what they get -- a number of...
... You're all sweeties. FWIW, I moved on from Current, and am now hacking on timewasting Facebook apps (and am under the control of The PayPal Mafia) at ...
I think narrowing the sponsorship amounts is a good idea, but let's keep the higher dollar ones attached to specific things where possible. $1500 meal ...
Greetings, My startup, HubSpot sponsored the t-shirts last year. We'd like to have first dibs on the t-shirt sponsorship this year too. Regards, Dharmesh On...
For BarCampers interested in startups.... TechStars is/are coming to Boston. http://bit.ly/x2wTI . Two of the Boston based "mentors"," Nabeel Hyaat and Shawn...
Hey all, The sponsorship levels for 2009 are listed on the page below and will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. I'll do my best to keep the...
We probably can get O'Reilly to be "Media" sponsor. In return for some signage and a button on the sponsor banner they will pimp BarCampBoston on some of their...
Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. I included Laurel Ruma in an off-list email I sent out earlier to some potential sponsors. I'm pretty sure she'll hook us up....
A friend and longtime Lisp hacker, Dan Weinreb, mentioned that he's organizing the International Lisp Conference, March 22-25 at MIT. I thought this might be...
FYI, I've forwarded the registration announcement to some other local groups that I thought might be interested: Dorkbot Boston, the Boston Ruby Group, the...
Do we have an ETA on this year's logo? I've just stuck a generic image on the wiki to note that the content is now different than last years. I'll stick the...
Hey BCB! Could someone link up the 2009 registration from http://www.barcampboston.org/ ? It currently points to 2008. Thanks! -Jason -- Jason Morrison ...
Hey volunteers! Those of you who signed up for a task at the Organizer's meeting, what updates can you give us? Registration for BCB4 has been getting promoted...
I plan to reach out to someone later today about possibly hosting the off-site party, which I'm currently planning for that Saturday night. But Friday night...
I am starting to put up information about the programming contest on the wiki. Can this be added to the main page? I have started looking for prizes and will...