BarCamp Essentials

[Matt Follett]

Hey folks,

I've come up with a list of things that we'll need to find for BarCamp.  It is a little bare though, so please let me know if you can think of something I'm forgetting:

• Schedule boards, which could be one of three things:
• Dry erase boards on loan from a company
• laminated shower board from a hardware store
• butcher paper
• Name tags, either:
• name tag stickers
• name tags on string
• name tags
• name tag holders
• dry erase name tags
• laminated shower board
• string
• stickers
• Dry erase markers, quantity:
• 50+ if we do the dry erase name tag
• 15 if we don't
• signs including:
• laminated signs outside to direct people (6 should suffice)
• wooden stakes or some such for laminated signs
• plain signs for directing people around the buildings (probably should get 20, depending on how you go the buildings can be confusing plus some could disappear)
• If we can do food:
• housekeeping costs ($200)
• 50 meals for lunch Sunday (~$450)
• 50 meals for lunch Saturday (~$450)
• anything for morning snacks?  coffee?

thanks,

Matt Follett

[Alex Miller]

Have you considered potlucking the food?  Might be surprisingly cheap and effective.  My uncle (who was a legendary community builder) was a fanatic believer in potlucks. 

[Matt Follett]

I meant to respond to this, sorry for ignoring you.  I really like the idea and I think it would certainly be in the feel of a BarCamp.  However I'm a little worried about the logistics of some decent percentage of 50 people bringing food for everyone else.