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<http://www.australianpolitics.com/executive/keating/keating-chronolog...>).

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 <http://www.atp.com.au/virtual_tours/innovFoyer.cfm> 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 <o...@barcampsydney.org> 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 <http://search.twitter.com/search?q=futuresummit> attended by a
few of the local twitterati, @liubinskas
<http://www.twitter.com/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 <http://www.startup-australia.org/events> for BarCamp Sydney and put
your thinking hats on to present a ripper of a session.

Keep up to date at the BarCampSydney Blog <http://www.barcampsydney.org/> or
this email list.

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Jodie Miners
jmin...@gmail.com