Metranet sponsoring BarCampBrighton’s WiMAX connection
The Old Music Library is a fantastic venue, but it is lacking in one or two areas… It’s a derelict building, so it doesn’t have a phone line. No phone line, no internet. No internet, not much of a fun BarCamp, so we’re exceptionally pleased that Metranet who have supported us for the previous three BarCamps are once again pulling out all the stops.
This time, they’ve gone above and beyond the call of duty and have put in a temporary site-specific, dedicated 5mpbs symmetric uncontended WiMAX connection. It involved a little more than just plugging in a microfilter and an ADSL router. Take a look at the photoset.
If you’re a Brighton and Hove business and want a service with prices which significantly undercut alternatives such as SDSL, IPStream or leased lines, then get in touch.
PayPal Sponsors BarCampBrighton4
PayPal is the leader in online payments and is used by retailers and leading brands internationally as a secure, easy way to accept payments and increase sales..
PayPal has more than 193 million customers internationally and is available in 190 countries, providing your store with exposure to a large and truly international base of customers.
With industry leading technology and a team of experts dedicated to preventing fraud, PayPal can partner with you to reduce fraud.
PayPal has no set up fees, no cancellation fees, no additional gateway or merchant account fees and no minimum contracts so why not give it a try today? For most of our products, you can start accepting payments immediately and unlike a number of our competitors who will make you wait 30 or 60 days until you receive your money, with PayPal 84% of payments are received within 24 hours.
Whether you are looking to PayPal to process all of your payments or to add PayPal as an additional payment option, you can rest assured that you are partnering with the internet payments leader.
Get set for the MySpace sessions
Our Gold sponsors, MySpace developer platform, are going to be running a session at BarCamp on cool stuff you can do with their API. If you miss the session, they will be on hand all through the event to talk to you, run demos and help you play with the API.
In order to take advantage and join in the fun however, you must sign up to the MySpace Developer Platform by this coming Wednesday, as it can take up to 2 days to be approved.
Signing up is a 2 step process:
Create a MySpace account or, if you have one Sign in to MySpace
Go to http://developer.myspace.com/modules/ apps/pages/ApplyDevSandbox.aspx and fill in the form (you have to fill in all the fields)
Then come along, meet MySpace and have a play!
Don’t miss The Guardian Breakfast
Good news! There will be an arrival breakfast, kindly sponsored by The Guardian. Make sure you get to the event for 10AM and fill yourself up for a day of fun sessions.
Here’s a message from the Guardian:
“Guardian.co.uk one of the largest news sites, with 18M international users, has won the Webby award for the Best Newspaper Website for the last 3 years.
Recently guardian.co.uk has undergone a transformation that has seen a redesign and a change in information architecture to be more resource oriented. Behind the scenes, the technology platform has been completely replaced and updated using agile development methods.
We’re really pleased to be sponsoring and taking part in Brighton’s 3rd BarCamp, and look forward to meeting you all there!”
Yes, we are pleased to announce The Guardian will be in attendence at the event – so keep an eye out for their talks! Thanks again guys.
Last mini-sponsor
Great big thanks to our last mini-sponsor…
http://interesting.ly, the social RSS reader that learns from what you do elsewhere on the internet.
incase you missed it http://bit.ly/knMT8 we have a new date 2nd & 3rd October 2010
Microsponsors
We are trying to raise at least £1000 £2000 £3000 from sole-traders, microbusinesses and small companies to make BarCampBrighton a truly local affair. If you'd like to show the Brighton geek•tech•hack•startup•social•design•gaming•mobile•robot•photo•blogging scene some ♥ please consider becoming a sponsor. Microsponsorships are just £100. So far we have raised £200. Find out more about becoming a sponsor →
