At last, we may have a venue. Stay tuned.
27 February, 2007 – 4:52 pm
Following is an email sent to the barcampaustralia mailing list a couple of minutes ago:
Folks,
It is with heavy heart (but with a sigh of relief) that I announce the postponement of BarCampCanberra. With no confirmed venue (long story) we’ve decided to postpone until April - most likely the week after Easter (which will make it 14-15 April), TBC, we are hoping to still coincide with some of the other BarCamps happening around the world - I note that there is at least one other Camp on that weekend (in Italy).
As time allows over the next little while we’ll update the blog, barcamp.org wiki, and other mailing lists. All going well we’ll have a venue confirmed within the next week or so.
The good news is… some of us will now be coming to Sydney 
If there are any other Canberrans on this list that are going to Sydney and are interested in carpooling, please get in touch with me.
Best regards, Andrew Boyd
So we’re postponing. It is not the end of the world, but it is disappointing. Stay tuned for more news.
10 January, 2007 – 8:32 am
here is the digital swag set (zipped set of PSD files, 408kb) from Steve Collins.
Steve has agreed to re-use under the BarCampLicense.
I’ll put some PNG versions up here and on http://barcamp.org/BarCampAustralia shortly.
Cheers, Andrew
9 January, 2007 – 9:25 pm
Steve Collins, one of the unorganisers, has put some artwork together and modelled it on some t-shirts at CafePress.
The current plan is to get sponsorship for the first 30 t-shirts and order them soon, and latecomers/those that prefer hoodies/odd sizes can order their own.
We’re hoping to have the artwork and t-shirt order details available shortly. If you are organising a BarCampAustralia event and want to leverage off Steve’s graphics work, contact him at trib AT acidlabs DOT org.
8 January, 2007 – 2:23 pm
YMMV, but I interpret the unconference concept as Organiser Lite… that is, the organisers aren’t really organisers in a traditional sense, more that they organise the sandbox for the unconference to self-organise within. If I have this wrong, tell me
So what sort of sandbox does BarCampCanberra 07 need? My guess is, at a minimum:
- a venue;
- a mailing list; and
- a site/blog.
After that, it is butcher’s paper timeslots in every corner of the room and devil take the hindmost
For the people that have emerged as Organisers Lite so far (Steve, Donna and myself), we also like the idea of tshirts.
The venue would ideally be:
- central,
- have secure-ish overnight parking,
- be incredibly bandwidth friendly,
- have a range of food nearby, and
- ungeekily contain showers.
If anyone has venue suggestions email me at aboyd AT smsmt DOT com or comment here.
Cheers, Andrew
