Madison and Milwaukee have begun planning for their BarCamps this year!

[Mike Putnam]

Fellow BarCampFoxValley fans:

BarCampMadion and BarCampMilwaukee have begun meeting regularly to plan their respective events!

I wanted to share a snippet of the notes from BarCampMadison's most recent meeting notes via http://groups.google.com/group/barcampmadison

Here you can glimpse some of the things that happen leading up to a BarCamp event...

Mike Putnam
http://barcampfoxvalley.org

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:05 PM:

Hey Folks,

We made some great progress on this years Barcamp at today's meeting.

Here are the takeaways:

- Since we've got the mechanics of barcamp figured out, focus on
marketing the event and raising awareness.

- Focus on bringing in more diverse population, including
* *Tech, Civic, Design, Family, University

- Make the event more accessible. *To that end:
* *- Create posters to promote during Forward Tech Fest Week
* *- Rename our Barcamp, Currently planning to call it "MadCamp"
* *- Pull in the crowds above

- MC's/Kickoff announcers: Greg Tarnoff & Jonathan

- Looking at ULI location (like last year) or UW, Union South, etc

- Maybe do a big 'ol cookout sometime during FTF week to raise awareness
(we bring fire, thats it)

Todos
-----
- Talk to Shanan (preston)
- Talk to Mayor (preston)
- Talk to Bryan/Supranet (preston)
- Talk to Trek about Bcycle (preston)
- Talk to ULI (greg tracy)
- Set up COD Site (jonathan)
- Send Jonathan vector logo (greg tracy)
- Get posters done (preston, shanan)
- Figure out what to assign to Phil (everyone except phil)
- Add diagrams and more friendlystuff to website (jonathan)
- Work with Andrew on the website (jonathan/andrew)