About 30-40 people turned up to Bar Camp Gold Coast on a rainy Saturday at Griffith Uni (perfect weather for staying inside and talking tech). I was really encouraged by the quality of the people that attended... I always knew these people existed on the Gold Coast and I will now double my efforts to get more stuff like this happening on the coast.
Anyway - I'll blog about this in more detail later, but here are some of the things that we did.
- Mobile Coffee Guy - very popular. Thankyou Kerry - I will definitely use you again. I'll find your website and post here.
- Pizza - Eagle Boys were ok. But were pretty late and pizza was a little cold....
- Hardware giveaway.... got rid of a lot of my stuff. Hands shot up pretty quickly - so obviously people obviously wanted this stuff! Lots of other people brought stuff to give too.
- Apress Book/Tshirt giveaway - didn't know how to give these away in the end (best presentation was too hard to judge) so we did a door prize instead.
- Internet - Griffith Uni installed an AP especially for us, and we had use of the uni internet. Seemed pretty fast - although annoying to keep getting the login page after a time away
- Group photo - thanks DJ for getting this together.. good idea
- Linux area - we kept a little area with some Linux magazines, distros and flyers on and the GCLUG people seemed to gather around there and talk to people about Linux, seemed to work well.
- Tshirts - good number of shirts (I think we printed 38) - they nearly all went, and it was nice to see Linux on everyone's backs too (including some MS people :)). Thanks to Custom Tees for those.
- After drinks... we got about 10 people there.... Parkwood Tavern was pretty ok, had a good outdoor area - with heaters!
Of the presentations - the topics were pretty varied. Some I attended were: Gold Coast IT Community (my own), Data Portability, Social Networking, Delicious links index, AJAX Streaming, SEO, Incorporating GCLUG, Social Media Club. I missed the panedia thing - which everyone was raving about - so will have to check that out later.
Thanks to Steve Tucker & Morgan Parker for helping with organising and Graham & DJ for doing some Wrangling on the day. Will have lots of photos available soon (from DJ). Thankyou also to the sponsors - Linux Australia (big ups!!!), Apress Books, Inqbator, Griffith Uni and me!
Will blog more with photos and links when I get some. See you all in twitter land (I think we should have replaced the names on our badges with twitter names!)
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Sounds like a great event.
Sounds like a great event. When's the next one?
THANK YOU STEVE!
and i've given you plenty of pictures to choose from buddy!
Thanks Dave. The links were
Thanks Dave. The links were fine - you had a slight typo in the first link - "a hrefe" - but I fixed that and it worked.
Barcamp - and thanks to all
That was a great event. Thanks a lot Steve and the other 'unorganisers' for all the unwork that you did to make the event run so well.
Personal thanks also to Linux Australia for their generous assistance, and also especially to Inqbator for providing the refreshments and supper at the end of the day. I encourage anyone their to check out their website in return. I am doing this right now.
I guess more feedback and discussion will appear on the GCLUG email list in due course.
ps I have placed 2 links in this comment as apparently allowed, but they do not show up in the preview. I hope they show up in the post if not they are to : http://www.inqbator.com.au/ & http://groups.google.com/group/gclug ... Hmm <--- these show in the preview as links but the fully coded anchor tags do not.
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