BarCamp CT Wrap

[Conrad Strydom]

Hi Guys,

So thats a wrap for the first installment of BarCamp in Cape Town! Man was it fun!

I want to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone that took time out of their schedule to come and visit, you guys where great!
We had roughly 70 people attending over the 2 days, some familar faces on day 2, some new ones.

Thanks for everyone that gave talks, Dewet gives a great overview over on his blog:
http://dewet.org/wordpress/

Then just again, a big Thank You to all the sponsors that made this event possible:

Stormhoek (providing some wine) http://www.stormhoek.com/
Bryght    (sponsoring bandwidth, from overseas!) http://www.bryght.com/
CITI (Nice sarmies and other lunch goodies) http://www.citi.org.za/
Kaluma (sponsoring the venue) http://www.kaluma.com/
Quirk (sponsoring the T-shirts and a projector) http://www.quirk.biz/
Zangu (Some cash from overseas!) http://www.zangu.com/
Briehan Lombaard (Cash) http://eighteenthirtyseven.blogspot.com/
Caffeine (sponsoring the coffee) http://www.caffeinespot.wordpress.com
RSAWeb (sponsoring iBurst Wireless Internet hardware goodies, not sure if we used much but thanks for the effort guys!) http://www.iburstsouthafrica.co.za/
LaVie de Luc (water) http://www.laviedeluc.com/
Huguenot Valley (water)
Peter Langeridge (P/A Equipment)

Then thanks to Mark Forrester the winner of the T-shirt design compo (which we forgot to mention at the event :) ).

Thanks to Wayne from Six Million Dollar (http://sixmilliondollar.com/) for the entertaining media ad reel he was running and the SWF file he drew up to show off our sponsors (Less one - RSAWeb, a late entry). Download here: http://barcamp.org/f/sponsor_animation.swf for those who missed it.

Also thank you to Dave Duarte (http://daveduarte.co.za/) and his mom and sister Max for running the great tuckshop, we all appreciate the effort.

Thanks to everyone else that did their bit, network okes, admin okes, those who stayed later to help pack up, you know who you are ;) etc. etc.

Planning on having a bit of an informal afterparty for those interested, somewhere close to next week Thursday, somewhere in town. Informal drinks after work?
If you are keen drop me a mail so I can get an idea of numbers.

Cheers & see you at the next one. Durban?
--
Conrad Strydom
*Geek by day - Superhero by night*
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http://barcamp.org/BarCampCapeTown

[Rafiq Phillips]

Me thinks Caffeine spot could be a good venue? Most of us are getting
free muffins anyways :)

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[Laurence Baldwin]

I would second that.

>  Also thank you to Dave Duarte ( http://daveduarte.co.za/) and his mom and

[Christine Stander]

Informal get together does sound like a plan!

Will definitely try to be there!

On 6/19/06, Conrad Strydom < conrad....@gmail.com> wrote:

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Kind regards,
Christine

[Adrian Rossouw]

On 19 Jun 2006, at 12:53 PM, Rafiq Phillips wrote:

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> Me thinks Caffeine spot could be a good venue? Most of us are getting
> free muffins anyways :)

Yeah =)

Do they have wifi ? =)

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[Rafiq Phillips]

They should&if n0t they should

[David Duarte]

> > Do they have wifi ? =)

I just phoned Joe (Caffeine guy)... he's not online cos he's running
his ass off serving tables.

He's stoked with the great response to the Barcamp sponsorship and is
installing wireless as fast as he can. Should be up by next week.

There's also no liquour licence at Caffeine spot yet, so he's not
allowed to SELL
wine - but he can give it away.... it wil probably be something like:
"Buy a bowl of peanuts for R10, and get the wine free".

Should be fun:-p

Is anyone not cool with that?

Dave Duarte
in...@daveduarte.co.za

[Adrian Rossouw]

On 19 Jun 2006, at 4:33 PM, David Duarte wrote:

>
> He's stoked with the great response to the Barcamp sponsorship and is
> installing wireless as fast as he can. Should be up by next week.

Yeah. definitely. I think he got his place made the unofficial hang out
of the web cogniscenti. =P

[Glen Verran]

I'm keen for an after Barcamp get-together.  It will be great.  I'll b

[Glen Verran]

Damn keyboard.

I'm keen for an after Barcamp get-together.  It will be great.  I'll bring the misses too. :)
Let us know when and where.

[DaveDuarte]

Glen Verran wrote:

> Let us know when and where.
>
> On 6/21/06, Glen Verran <thez...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm keen for an after Barcamp get-together; It will be great; I'll

bring the misses too. :)
> Let us know when and where.

Caffeine is more than happy to host the Barcampers for the follow-up.
I'll book for next Thursday eve... How's 6pm-ish?
Also, perhaps those people that are keen to come along could notify via
this group.

Dave
http://www.daveduarte.co.za

[Christine Stander]

Great - I'm keen!

Christine

[Rafiq Phillips]

On 6/22/06, DaveDuarte <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>

keen i am

[Jeremy Thurgood]

DaveDuarte wrote:
> Caffeine is more than happy to host the Barcampers for the follow-up.
> I'll book for next Thursday eve... How's 6pm-ish?
> Also, perhaps those people that are keen to come along could notify via
> this group.

I'm in. I even remembered to blog my free coffee. :-)

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[Moe Aboulkheir]

I live in Sea Point, so i'll probably be there

Moe

[Laurence Baldwin]

Ill be there, will there be wireless?

[DaveDuarte]

Laurence Baldwin wrote:
> Ill be there, will there be wireless?

When I spoke to Joe (owner) a couple of days ago he said he's
installing it...
I'll confirm before Thursday.

[Dewet Diener]

On 22/06/06, DaveDuarte <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:

Caffeine is more than happy to host the Barcampers for the follow-up.
I'll book for next Thursday eve... How's 6pm-ish?

That's a most probable "me too!" here as well.

d

[DaveDuarte]

So I've told Joe at Caffeine (www.caffeinespot.wordpress.com) to expect
around 10 BarCampers on Thursday eve.

I go to a biz-breakfast club there, and we use a little networking
model where we all introduce ourselves and the type of biznis we're
looking for - good for getting conversation rolling.

U guys up for that? It requires that we all get there on time tho - say
6:15pm start?
(perhaps a modified version for Barcamp - e.g. "what cool ideas do you
champion")

Any other suggestions?

[Christine Stander]

Great idea Dave!

Time sounds good - but pending traffic ;)

On 6/27/06, DaveDuarte <dave...@gmail.com > wrote:

So I've told Joe at Caffeine ( www.caffeinespot.wordpress.com) to expect

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[Conrad Strydom]

Hi,

What if we nake it a smidge later, say like 6:30 to give people time to get to town? I know I normally work till close to six so I would need the 30 minutes to get there and find the place no doubt, which reminds me, where is it again?

Cheers

[DaveDuarte]

6:30's cool.

It's on Seapoint Main Road (11 Regent Road), coming from town it's on
your left, in the block after that train-carriage restaurant.

[Rafiq Phillips]

Would you like your wrap mild, hot, or with extra peri-peri?

I lika da shigen

On 6/27/06, DaveDuarte <dave...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Mayhaps they should put it somewhere prominent on their blog (the address)