Archive for Run Your Own Camp

The Freelance Camp Logo

// June 29th, 2009 // Comments // Run Your Own Camp

Looking for a copy of the Freelance Camp Logo? You came to the right place.

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Organizer’s Freelance Camp Checklist

// June 13th, 2009 // Comments // Run Your Own Camp

The following provides a how to manual for putting on a freelance camp. This checklist is an accumulation of all the questions we had to ask and hurdles faced over the last year and a half. When it comes down to it, there are really three things you need to figure out: Venue & Food, Money (Sponsors) and Getting Peopl to Show Up (Marketing).

STEP 1: Getting Started
1. Register with www.freelancamp.org
2. Brainstorming Venues & Food
3. Preparing for Sponsors
4. Create a budget

STEP 2: Putting Plans into Motion
1. Secure a Venue
2. Signing Up Sponsors

STEP 3: Marketing and Outreach

STEP 4: Have Fun and Watch it Unfold

Oh and Side Notes & Recommendations
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Freelance Camp Reno 2009

// May 21st, 2009 // Comments // Run Your Own Camp

The folks at Reno Collective, an up and coming coworking space in Nevada, just announced their intention to put on a Freelance Camp. No date or details just yet. They are looking for volunteers and sponsors, so if you are in the neighborhood, drop them at line or just wander in.

In the News: Freelance Camp Impacts Local Tech Scene

// April 20th, 2009 // Comments // Run Your Own Camp

A few days back, Jeremy Neuner, Owner of Nextspace Coworking and Innovation, posted a review of the emerging tech scene in Santa Cruz. He named the first Freelance Camp as a significant player in the evolution of our growing and thriving local community.

Now you may think, emerging?!?, that’s silly. Santa Cruz is just 30 minutes out, a hop over the hill, from Silicon Valley. Borland, Plantronics, Netflix, Seagate and more were born there. All true. And yet, over the last decade the cohesion of the local community had evaporated. We had become just another bedroom community for the hordes of people commuting to google or trying to convince the investors on Sand Hill to cough up another few million.

That began to change a year and a half ago. We started geek dinners, which led to jellies, which led to freelance camp and a coworking space, which launched some hopping start-ups (for example: 12 Seconds, User Voice) and catalyzed a once disparate community of freelancers.

Feel like your town is isolated? Frustrated there isn’t enough action and clients? Get some people together and it will change things. I promise it will blow your mind.

Help the economy. Help yourself. Help your friend. Run your own freelance camp.

Run Your Own Camp: Finding Sponsors

// April 18th, 2009 // Comments // Run Your Own Camp

We have received a significant number of questions on how to run a freelance camp. In order to help as best as possible, Dmitry and I will be writing a series of articles detailing the lessons we have learned over the past year.

Running your own camp is a pretty straight forward process! The bar camp model is quite well documented and we borrow heavily from it. Dmitry is gathering a number of blog posts and will begin making a basic checklist.

There are two questions that comprise most of the emails we get: “How do I find Sponsors?” and “How do I get people to come?”.

To kick it off, I wrote a post last month on my own blog to help answer questions regarding finding sponsors: http://blog.shaneandpeter.com/2009/03/19/finding-sponsors/. I am re-posting the article below with a few modifications:
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