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BarCamp New Orleans
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When: Feb 16-17, 2008
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Where: Voodoo Ventures offices, 757 St. Charles Avenue, Suite 301, New Orleans,Louisiana 70130
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Who: Gulf Coast geeks, digerati, entrepreneurs, and those interested in them
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We’re organizing a BarCamp in New Orleans. BarCamp is anunconference, which means it’sprobably unlike most conferences you’ve been to. We’re getting people together who careabout technology and are interested in connecting with the local community to socialize,learn, and to help New Orleans.BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatoryworkshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stageweb applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open dataformats. The first BarCamp was in Palo Alto in August of 2005, and the movement hasgained momentum and then and created quite ahistory The format of the New Orleans BarCamp weekend is shaping up like this:
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Feb 16 – BarCamp open sessions and workshops
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Feb 17 – “Hack day”-style project(s) for local nonprofit and/or small business
How can you participate?
Attend
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BarCamp New Orleans is free to attend
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Active participation is all that’s asked of attendees
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Students, entrepreneurs, designers, techies, and geeks of all kind are invited toattend
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Help us help a Gulf Coast business by participating in hack day project on February17
Sponsor
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Sponsorshipkeeps BarCamp free. We are actively soliciting sponsorship from localbusinesses interested in supporting the tech community.
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We are seeking sponsorship in both cash and in-kind donations. Great donationswould be: media advertising, meals, coffee, beverages, snacks, chair rental, happyhour.
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Sponsors will have their logo printed on the back of the BarCamp New Orleans T-shirtand will be invited to participate in the conference.
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Cash sponsorships of $250 to $400 are welcomed.
Promote
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Help us get the word out about BarCamp. This type of event is great for the NewOrleans technology community. Blog about it, email your friends, print this out anddistribute it… do whatever you can.
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Press will be invited to the event, and are encouraged to assist in promoting theevent before hand.
BarCamp New Orleans - February 16-17, 2008
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