<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br><div>Please find below my proposal for a LA grant for the inaugural Barcamp Gold Coast. Sorry for the short notice, we wanted to get the Barcamp in quickly in the mid semester break and also while people are still energised from Barcamp Brisbane last month.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Date: 5th July 2008</div><div><br></div><div>Project Name: Barcamp Gold Cosat</div><div><br></div><div>Aim of Project: Kickstart BarCamp on the Gold Coast</div><div><br></div><div>Person Resposible for Request: Steve Dalton</div><div><br></div><div>Request: The Gold Coast has a population of over 500,000, a growing IT industry, but unfortunately very little in the way of developer community - particularly in Open Source. There are a lot of companies that naturally seem to gravitate towards Microsoft & dotnet for development, and many I know of have little or no knowledge of the alternatives. A handful of companies are using PHP and Perl, and some now are getting into things like RoR, Python & Groovy/Grails - but this is still a very small percentage.</div><div><br></div><div>Recently we have seen the main open source group on the Gold Coast - GCLUG, disintegrate into a mailing list - there are no meetings and people who have been actively involved in the past are burnt out and have lost enthusiasm. Out of frustration I got involved in the Brisbane Barcamp - helping to organise 2 very successful events. Most of the funding for the 1st Barcamp was from me and another person paying for it ourselves from our consulting companies, the 2nd was funded by a $1000 donation from Microsoft. Back on the Gold Coast we also started an Open Source Developers Group (OSDGC) and we have started meeting informally (no funding) - there is a lot of energy in this little group.</div><div><br></div><div>From doing the Barcamps and talking to people in OSDGC, we have decided to have a go at organising a Gold Coast Barcamp. With the help of Steven Tucker a student at Griffith Uni and long time GCLUG member we have managed to get some rooms for free at Griffith Uni for an event to be held on Saturday 5th July. We already have a fair bit of interest and I have located a lot of Gold Coast people that I didn't know of through the various social networks (linked and twitter in particular).</div><div><br></div><div>I currently have a couple of potential sponsors - but I am not sure if these will come through, so I am asking Linux Australia for their help as I know they have funded barcamps in the past. I would like to apply for a grant of $500 which will cover our minimum expenses. Even with other sponsors I would really like to see OSS represented - having MS as the only sponsor at the last Brisbane barcamp was a little disappointing. Depending on how much total sponsorship we get, these are some of the things we could spend the money on:</div><div><br></div><div>- Lunch</div><div>- Tshirts</div><div>- Prizes for best presenation</div><div>- Book Giveaway (hoping to get some donated books from publishers for this)</div><div>- Posters around Unis publicising event</div><div>- Stationary (markers, butchers paper etc)</div><div>- Publicity (possibly advert in the paper)</div><div>- After Party</div><div><br></div></div><div>In relation to Open Source we would like to use the Barcamp as an opportunity to restart the GCLUG and publicise some of the activities that we have planned on the Gold Coast for Software Freedom day. As an past attendee/member of some of these things am also happy to promote LCA, OSDC, LA, OSIA and QLD Lugs to people attending. I would also like to gain some support for OSDGC with a view to making it a regular organised gathering for local Open Source Developers.</div><div><br></div><div>We have some potential press in the local newspaper (not a lot happens in IT on the Coast - so I am hoping we will get some coverage) and I will try my best to get LA and FOSS mentioned in the article if it gets to print.</div><div><br></div><div>Please get back to me if you have any further questions. All of the information we have so far is on the barcamp wiki at <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampGoldCoast">http://barcamp.org/BarCampGoldCoast</a></div><div><br></div><div>cc: Linux Australia mailing list</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div>ps. 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