The first *Camp sponsors

18 Oct 2007

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Before I even announced *Camp (the self-organising unconference on 8/9th December in Cape Town), I sounded the idea off a few people.  Two of those people just happen to be involved in some of the more exciting Cape Town technology businesses - Frogfoot (the friendly Linux-powered ISP) and Amobia (the wireless access guys).

Amobia returned fairly quickly and said they'd be willing to sponsor the installation and standard operational costs of a wireless link to Amobia, and sponsor a 150MB "scratch card" per attendee.

Prosperis is another company that responded almost immediately to the idea.  It has offered up to 100 PCs and LCD monitors for tutorial rooms, as well as to manage the internal operation of the network, as well as some other stuff I don't understand (something about "reticulation" of "electricity").  They do a lot of work with events and conferences, so their experience should be very useful.

There's always the possibility that the venue we find is not be in the Amobia coverage area (or already has good connectivity), or that we won't need or be able to use the PCs and LCD monitors that Prosperis is offering, but it's great that local companies are so quick to respond to making an event like *Camp happen in Cape Town.

Our biggest outstanding goal is a venue.  Thanks to Jonathan, we've tried a few schools, but unfortunately have not yet had success.  We've got a few more ideas, but we'd love some suggestions - either comments here, the starcamp-planning mailing list, or on the *Camp planning page.

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