Comments on: Ten Steps to Organizing a Barcamp

By: Philip Crawford

Philip Crawford — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:24:09 +0000

Still a great list. Thanks Crystal.

Other thoughts.
* Use a twitter hashtag and get a twitter account such as @barcampmadison
* Use something like Eventbrite for signup (easy and free and more features than google docs)
* get a non attendee to take lots of pictures (attendees are often busy attending sessions)
* Send thank you notes to all your sponsors. It’ll help you get them to sponsor again the next year.
* Send a feedback form to all attendees after the event

We just finished http://www.barcampmadison.org/ and these thoughts are fresh in my mind.

Thanks again for writing this. And update would be great!

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By: Michael J. Dudarev

Michael J. Dudarev — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:21:54 +0000

Hi there!

I’ve translated your pretty cool Barcamp’s guide into Russian. Could you please add this link (http://blog.mikejd.ru/2009/12/10stepstobarcamp) in the post?

Regards,
Michael.

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By: Aswin

Aswin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:36:17 +0000

For organizing such a big budget event…from where do we get sponsors?

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