Freelance Camp Santa Cruz 2009 is now official.

Date: Saturday August 15, 2009
Time: 9am – 6pm
Location: somewhere in Santa Cruz, CA (venue ideas?)
Cost: Free for Students & Hardship Cases, $25 General Attendees
Breakfast, Lunch, an After Party and cool Schwag Included

We have some planning and promotion to do, so anyone interested in being involved in the bay area should send me a note. You can find my contact info on www.shaneandpeter.com.

We have been blessed with a phenomenal outpouring of sponsorship offers this year and our early efforts have been paying off handsomely. I sincerely want to thank so many of you for the offers of support!! With your help, I have no doubts we can have an incredible event.

City of Santa Cruz
Baskin & Grant
Cruzio
Elance
Happy Santa Cruz
Lighthouse Bank
Shane & Peter Inc
Studio Holladay
Nextspace Coworking and Innovation

Consider another camp in the books! San Antonio’s first FreelanceCamp was an astounding success, but not without all the participation of our attendees and our sponsors. Without these two groups the event would have been nothing, but with enthusiastic and supportive sponsors, the organizers were able to put together an event where attendees could share, learn, network, and collaborate on future projects.

The atmosphere was electric with the buzzing of sessions, ad-hoc discussions, and the sounds of laughter and overall contentment with the entire thing. Of course the venue helped to create all this excitement. Big mention for Radius Cafe, a very creative, progressive spot perfect for functions of all kinds.

Discussion included Co-Working spaces in San Antonio, how a freelancer can leverage social media to their benefit, blogging and podcasting as a marketing tool, law protecting freelancers and employers, freelancing in the non-profit sector, and the hour long presentation, Freelancing in a Flat World done by Austin’s own Trish Lambert, a California transplant now enjoying life in Central Texas.

Most of the recorded sessions can be found at the following two links below:

• Recorded by Leslie Baldwin HERE (@springanew)
• Recorded by Todd O’neill HERE (@doingmedia)

You can listen to the Tech in Twenty recap discussion from FreelanceCampSA HERE.

If you took photos of the event and they are Flickr, please make sure you use the the tags #fcsatx to mark your photos so that others can find them.

I want to send a big thanks to Shane Pearlman, of Shane & Peter, Inc., for the donation of the FreelanceCamp.org website. Leaders in the community like him opened the site to assist other FreelanceCamps in the nation and is also an excellent model for those us all looking to work with one another to make these even

ts happen. San Antonio and the camp’s organizers thank you for sharing this site with us!

And finally, as mentioned above, thank you to our entire group of sponsors who made the event possible. Your help put FreelanceCamp San Antonio on the map, and I look forward to working with all of you next year in 2010 for FreelanceCamp San Antonio 2.

FreelanceCamp San Antonio 2009 Sponsors

Thanks to the organizers who helped me make this a reality. Alysan Delaney-Childs (@alysan), Jennifer Navarrete (@epodcaster), and Gylon Jackson (@gylonj)