Recycle jute bag

Every bag tells a story

Friday, August 21st, 2009 (1 year, 12 days ago) news | 2 comments

Ellen de Vries needs your help. She’s assembling the goodie bags for BarCampBrighton, but as funds are tight and we want to try and keep to a theme of reuse, she’s decided to conduct a little project instead.

“I’m doing an experiment: I’m collecting bags/suitcases/rucksacks for an project around the idea of ‘bags with a history’ for an event called Barcamp in about 1 week’s time (so the pressure is on!) – I need 150 of them.

Any old Sainsburys or Infinity Foods string, jute, canvas bags, rucksacks, handbags, suitcases, man bags, chic paper bags and things like that are all accepted, but not plastic bags.

Do you have any old ones kicking around anywhere (even just one or two)? I can come to you if its central Brighton (or your workplace) and collect them next week at a convenient time – name a time and I can pop over.

Or you could even buy me a very special bag from a charity shop (thanks Michael for the idea).

That would be really lovely and you’ll get credited too.

Lets hope I manage it! Thanks for your help!”

So if you’ve got a bag or two that you’d like to donate, drop Ellen a line.

Final ticket lottery

Friday, August 21st, 2009 (1 year, 12 days ago) tickets | 1 comment

The final allocation of tickets (about 50) will be selected on Friday 28th August. We’re running this allocation as a lottery, so put your name in the hat and watch out for the announcement of tickets next week. We’ll email and tweet the lucky winners.

There are still allocated tickets available for geek girls, BarCamp newbies, members of the BCS or IET and students.

Metranet sponsoring BarCampBrighton’s WiMAX connection

Thursday, August 20th, 2009 (1 year, 13 days ago) sponsors | No comments

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.

The Guardian Open Platform sponsors BarCampBrighton4

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 (1 year, 15 days ago) news | No comments

We’re delighted to announce that The Guardian Open Platform is supporting BarCampBrighton4.

The Guardian has opened up their services so that everyone can benefit from their journalism, their brand, and the technologies that power guardian.co.uk.

Learn more about building applications with the Guardian by visiting guardian.co.uk/open-platform.

PayPal Sponsors BarCampBrighton4

Friday, August 14th, 2009 (1 year, 19 days ago) sponsors | No comments

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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.

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