We have a lot of people to thank for helping put on BarCamp Brighton 2, please give us a minute to send some kudos their way…

First, the sponsors who gave us our food and drink, and paid for staffing of the venue: Singularity08, Yahoo Developer Network, e-consultancy, Madgex, Amazon Web Services, Cogapp, Microsoft Silverlight, iCrossing, Second Life, Realtime Worlds, and Chinwag

For providing the excellent venue, keeping an eye on us, serving us beer and grub, we thank the University of Sussex Students’ Union (USSU) and the University of Sussex

More thanks to Metranet who kindly donated the internet connection for the event. Especially Matt from Metranet and Mick from Fastnet who worked with the University technical staff to get the connection to Falmer House working in time for us, including some very last minute programming and routing to make sure it all worked.

For the projectors, thanks go to the Sussex Community Internet Project (SCIP), Paul Perrin, and the Media Services Unit.

Madgex once again gave us their excellent Backnetwork, letting us all connect up and see what each other are saying.

BarCamps are always about the people, and we’d like to thank some of the attendees for their help: Vicky Walburg, Dave Phelan and Jay for setting up a faultless wireless network for us to use. Madhava Bailey for his network wall, Premasagar Rose for streaming several talks on Yahoo Live, and Lincoln Smith for introducing everyone to Arduino goodness. Gillian Pearce and Mark Ng for helping with registration and Anna Fuller for helping man the front desk throughout the weekend.

Saving the biggest thanks for last: a huge thank you to Jay Gooby and Jonathan Markwell for being the main organisers of BarCamp Brighton 2. Jon navigated the myriad people at the University and Union, knitting together connections so they’d all agree to a large bunch of geeks taking over for a weekend, including overnight. Jay gathered loads of sponsorship from local and national companies which made the whole event possible, and let us give out 50% more tickets than last time. Jon and Jay also did a massive amount of running around over the weekend to make everything work and look seamless.

Apologies if I’ve missed anyone, I know Jon has a list of about 100 people he needs to thank, but he’s away at the moment. Hopefully he’ll fill in any big blanks I’ve missed when he gets back.

We hope everyone had a great time, whether you got to attend or watch it from afar on Prem’s Y!Live streams. Jay’s collecting volunteers to run BarCamp Brighton 3, if you’re interested in helping with that, please get in touch with him.

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