Location, Sponsorship, Volunteers, PR...

[Bayard Saunders @miiacom]

Jason asked me to post an email thread we've been having to the group
here: (can anyone answer any of these questions?)

Jason,

I can offer experience - as an attendee, speaker, sponsor and
organizer for Barcamps in Boston, San Diego and Nashville, and as a
communications consultant doing events management for Fortune 100
brands.

My contact info and resume hasn't been updated, but I've recently
taken a new position here, so I can also offer a few volunteer workers
from my new staff in Dallas who have expressed an interest in helping,
and an international network of resource contacts and other Barcamp
organizers.

For your location search, how many people are you expecting? What
venues are you already considering?

For sponsorship, do you have a rate-card or levels of pricing? How
much do you need for your budget?

Do you have any upcoming meetings? Anyone helping you with PR?

Another thing I can offer is a suggestion about a possible PR
opportunity on January 21 - maybe you've already thought of this...
The Social Media Club is hosting blogger and author Chris Brogan, and
it would be a good audience and great timing to announce the details
of Barcamp Dallas 2010. Do you think that it is possible to secure a
venue before then?

Bayard

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jason Ragsdale <jr...@jasrags.net>
wrote:

What can you offer? We are working on a location at the moment and
have a few sponsors. :)

On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Bayard Saunders
<bayard....@gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you need help with to pull off Barcamp Dallas this year?
>
> --
> Bayard Saunders
> 615-866-2340
> http://www.miia.com
> bayard....@gmail.com
>
> LinkedIn - http://www.Linkedin.com/in/bayard
> Twitter - http://www.Twitter.com/miiacom
> Blog - http://miiacom.Blogspot.com

[Jason Ragsdale]

Thanks Bayard,

Let's go over what we know so far.

Date: March 6th or 13th
Location: UTD? (waiting on word for this one)
Number of people: I would guess < 200

We have one sponsor (Microsoft) pledging money and Adobe pledging some swag at this point. I was going to go to more sponsors after we got the date and location down.

-Jason

[Jonathan Campos]

I am going up for another meeting with UTD about this. Typically they charge $200 a room, unless we can get a facility member to sponsor us, and then it's free. That is the difficult thing that I am working on now.

--
Jonathan Campos
Dallas Flex User Group Manager
http://www.d-flex.org/
blog: http://www.unitedmindset.com/jonbcampos
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jonbcampos