Greetings BarCamp Nashville Community! It is once again time to kick the planning schedule into gear for BarCamp Nashville. The anticipated date is Saturday October 17th. Some persistent volunteers have been offering suggestions for venues but at this time the location of the event is still TBD. We welcome recommendations from the community for potential locations. We intend to stay in the downtown Nashville area and preferably in walking distance of an entertainment district. Location of BCN 2009 will be a premier topic for our first organizational meeting on Tuesday, June 23rd at 6PM. We have been meeting in a conference room at Cummins Station in the past. We need to confirm that we will still have access to that room before we publish it as the location of the upcoming meeting. Keep your eyes peeled for an email through our friends at Emma with details.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have participated in organizing BarCamp or PodCamp in the past and were a member of the “Meetup” group, that group has been deleted. We had a problem with the site publishing meetups on a weekly schedule per the default characteristics of our group. We deleted “Meetups” the system published automatically per our initial set-up so folks would not get notifications of meetings that were not happening. The system would them re-publish without notification (probably in association with some sporadic maintenance they were performing that returned recurring meetings to a default setting that re-published the meeting. Truly just a shot in the dark, but we could get little more than that in explanation from Meetup…and it did not appear they were interested in doing anything about it…so we dropped the “Meetup” group.
Gear up on this site! We have an awesome platform with networking tools, calendars, and collaborative functionality. Add your photos, bios and whatnot. The BarCamp Nashville web site will be the focal point for all organizational efforts in addition to registration and presentation sign ups. If you are a volunteer, organizer, presenter, or attendee, we want to know more about you. This event and the efforts that surround it are about networking, and building our community by sharing ideas and information. Don’t be shy! Let people know who you are, what you do.
In closing I would like to invite you all to get seriously fired up about BarCamp Nashville 2009. Based on our attendance and registration trends over the last 2 years, we are anticipating around 1,000 registered and at least 750 in attendance. I think I can speak for all past and present organizers when I thank each and every one of YOU for making BarCamp Nashville such an awesome event of exponential growth. Still we know there are more of “us” out there who have yet to discover BarCamp Nashville, so tell your friends, family, neighbors, and complete strangers about BarCamp Nashville 2009! The first organizational meeting is on Tuesday, June 23rd at 6PM…the big event is on Saturday, October 17th from ~9AM to 4PM…Join the website and/or volunteer to help organize the best ever BARCAMP NASHVILLE!