Hello everyone,
I am Jo - some of you met me at the last Brighton Drupal meetup... I am helping organise the upcoming DrupalCamp in Brighton. : )
I just wanted to message everyone to say hello - offer myself as the point of contact for questions about the event, and ask for your help!
Proposed sessions:
We are aiming to have 2 tracks over the weekend - a beginner track, and a more advanced track. This means we need a wide variety of sessions to be run. The current session proposals can be seen here: http://bad-ass.org.uk/program/sessions/proposed We need more! Can you put on a session? Do you know someone who can? Please sign up or encourage them to.
Volunteers for the run up and on the day:
As well as sessions, we will also need some help with things running up to the event, and on the day. If you would like to be involved with the event this way drop me an email off list, and I will talk to you about how you can help out.
We are also having a meeting Wednesday 18/04 at the Hampton Arms from 7pm to discuss the current submitted sessions and finalise the schedule for the day. Please do come along to that if you can… (do I need to create an event for this on the group?)
I know Dan offered to help me out organising the party on the Saturday – so if you are still up for this let me know.
Sponsorship:
We are still looking for sponsors for the event. If you or your company are interested please let me or Steve know ASAP!
In the future – (when we have more time!) it might be worth looking in to setting something like this up so we don’t need to rely on external companies for help with bank accounts etc. http://www.oneclickorgs.com/ I know Barcamp London use this system with success.
Taking inspiration from this - http://groups.drupal.org/node/16464 this is what I propose for sponsorship levels (let me know what you think):
Gold - £ 500 (3 available)
- Page of the website available to talk about your company and what you do
- Opportunity to add leaflets / swag at the registration desk
- Mentioned in all official announcements and e-mails
- Logo on all signage / introduction slides
- 10 minutes to talk to entire group at the start of the event
- One of the track rooms named after the donating company
Silver - £ 250 (4 available)
- Mentioned in all official announcements and e-mails
- Logo on all signage / introduction slides / website
- 5 minutes to address entire group prior to afternoon session
Bronze - £100 (no limit)
- Logo on all signage / introduction slides / website
Individual - £20 - £99
- Love from your organisers and local community
Marketing / promotion:
Tweet and share how excited you are about the event! This is really important to start getting a buzz going leading up to the event itself. We have a twitter account, found here: https://twitter.com/#!/BADCampUK (and of course more generally https://twitter.com/#!/BADAssUK ) and I will be tweeting about the event over the next few weeks. Any follows / re-tweets would be great... We are also going to use the hashtag #BADCampUK for the event – so use that when promoting or talking about your session.
Thanks for taking the time to read this if you got this far, and looking forward to seeing you all very soon : )
Jo
Comments
Nice one Jo.
Will we have 3 track rooms to give names to for the gold sponsorship? I understand that 2 tracks doesn't necessarily mean 2 track rooms but just wanted to double check before sponsorship was officially offered.
Also, since our last meet, Steve tweeted that Purkiss Ltd would be sponsoring the event (I don't think it was April 1st). Is this the case and if so how does that fit in to all of the above?
I've tried speaking to the Eagle about their function room a few times but their phone number never seems to connect. Speaking to the staff in person only results in being given the afore mentioned phone number. I'll persevere...
2 rooms 1 party ;)
We've got two rooms and one party to sponsor, so actually we probably could accommodate at least one more gold sponsor than we've advertised!
Due to the payment gateways I decided to cover the costs of the tickets as we were going to charge a tenner but it would've meant using something like eventbrite and that would've meant people wouldn't have been logged on the system, in the site, etc.
Also my friend who's hopefully going to DJ said Fitzherberts is good as they have decks etc. already set up - Jo will no doubt talk to you about this.
Fitzherberts isn't available
Fitzherberts isn't available on the 28th. Just phoned to check.
:(
thanks for trying... let's hope the eagle works out otherwise it's a nightmare trying to direct people etc.
theskiff...
I had thought we were going to just hang in theskiff as it's easy but was advised it would be more effort than a pub. I am beginning to think i was right to start with. At least we can chat etc.
hummm.. there's that strange
hummm.. there's that strange brasserie around the corner, its free to hire it..
A bit of clarifications,
A bit of clarifications, please?
How long a proposed session should be planned for?
Are there any specific rooms with/out possible required facilities? (eg projection, beverage, sound-system, light, white-board, etc.)
Timing. I guess that some sessions might better be done at different times of the day/night..?
What kind of description details would you like in the proposal?
Is it cool to talk about drupal derivatives? (atrium, etc..)
I think that's it for now..
Cheers!
half hour
Hi - sorry, I forgot to add the info:
How long a proposed session should be planned for?
Are there any specific rooms with/out possible required facilities? (eg projection, beverage, sound-system, light, white-board, etc.)
Timing. I guess that some sessions might better be done at different times of the day/night..?
What kind of description details would you like in the proposal?
Is it cool to talk about drupal derivatives? (atrium, etc..)
Cool! Thanks! What kind of
Cool! Thanks!
Nice.. In that case perhaps writing a few versions could be interesting in the quest of finding out which might work - or might not.. ;)
Cheers!
gold sponsorship
Hi Jo - put me down for a gold sponsorship - have you got a bank acct/place to put funds yet? If not I can sort...
Steve re beers etc at the skiff after the sat sessions still think this could work, have contacted my vj contact - are there any restrictions you know of re party stuff?