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We’re a week and a day away from BathCamp 2009… <eek />
This morning we sold our last ticket (the 50th) and so the booking page is now effectively turned off.
The reason for the limit of 50 is that we’ve had to place food, drink and other(!) orders, not that we can’t fit any more people on site. So if you’re gagging to come along and missed the ticket sales by a whisker, please don’t be put off – email me at mike dot ellis [at] bathamp dot org and I’ll try and accommodate you.
Looking forward to seeing you all at BathCamp 2009!
I make it 19 days until BathCamp 2009. Our Basecamp site seems to think it is 17. Let’s call it three weeks.
Either way, things are hotting up, bigtime. Since the last blog post, we’ve re-launched the BathCamp website with a lovely new look and feel courtesy of the fabulous Laura Kalbag. If you need great web work done by a lovely person, ask Laura..!
We’re also delighted to announce two new sponsors: the awesome Headscape (remember Paul Boag’s talk back at the first BathCamp evening event?) and BluBolt, a Bath-based e-commerce specialist. Thank loads to them. I can’t stress enough how important sponsors are to an event like this. It simply wouldn’t happen without them..
We’ve now nailed the marquee hire, and for any of you who might still be harbouring a residual fear of camping, take a look at the picture above to see the kind of thing you can expect. No messing about here – ours will be a 9m x 9m beauty capable of seating 75 people and will be kitted out with heating, lights, furniture and a carpet. I can hear the hard-core campers already: “Camping? That isn’t Camping! Kids these days….”
The marquee will be the main gathering point for food, movie and band as well as one of the locations for talks. A kind of BathCamp basecamp…
Tickets have been shifting at a rate of knots – numbers are looking pretty impressive already, but the more the merrier. If you haven’t got your ticket already, head over to http://bathcamp09.eventbrite.com/ and get yours now!
Wow, it’s hard working keeping on top of all the various bits and pieces when you’re organising an event like this…and it seems to be this blog which is currently suffering the most from #NotBeingUpdatedItus. We will be better at it in the future…
So. A quickie while I get my todo lists sorted. If you haven’t noticed already, BathCamp 2009 (the barcamp) is happening on the weekend of 26th/27th September, and tickets are now available. These are swinging out the door pretty rapidly so get yours while you can.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank our wonderful sponsors for coming on board. These guys are absolute stars, and will be providing (among other things) the marquee roof over our heads, the coffees and teas, the band, the bbq. We’ll be doing some more in-depth profiles in a little while but for now, here’s who to thank/buy beers for:
- Gradwell, a leading provider of Internet Telephony & Internet Services to UK Small Business.
Peter Gradwell was hugely generous in supporting BathCamp 2008 and is coming on board again this year. Gradwell are based in the centre of Bath and currently recruiting if you’re looking for work - Eduserv are the company I work for, a not for profit IT company. We work with HE and researchers throughout the UK and employ just over 100 people, again based here in Bath
- Microsoft needs no further introduction – they helped out last year with those enormous beanbags :-) and this year will be putting a tab behind the bar at the Bell. Woohoo!
- Carsonified have been supporters of BathCamp since the start – both the 2008 barcamp and the regular evening events we’ve been running since then
- DCKTN promote knowledge transfer and collaboration between people who use digital communications, and have helped fund events like the excellent OpenMic
So – big hands for these people. If you’d like to get involved by sponsoring BathCamp 2009 it is never too late – just drop me an email — mike dot ellis [at] geemail dot com or comment on this post.
