On behalf of all attendees I’d like to thank everyone who helped out with BarCamp Brighton this past weekend. The event couldn’t have happened without a huge number of people, many who attended as well as several who didn’t.

I’d like to thank Jon Markwell and John Houlihan, as well as all the staff at the University and Students Union for ensuring we had the venue, and enabling everything to run so smoothly over the weekend.

For sorting out the network and ensuring we had perfect wi-fi all weekend we must thank Vicky Walberg, Roger Horlock and the Metranet crew and Mike and all at ITS.

Thanks to Rosie at The Werks, Andy and all at USSU, Jane and all at SCIP and the Media Services Unit at Sussex for providing projectors and screens and ensuring we could all show our fancy slides and live coding.

Thanks to Glenn Jones for organising the tickets, and Paul Silver for his advice, help over the event and car.

For our food, drink and covering all the costs we must thank all our sponsors - this poster from the event does the job of listing them very nicely. I organised the Silver and Gold sponsors, Prem Rose the mini sponsors. I’d also like to thank Sophie Major, Andy Budd, Jay Gooby, Matt Weston, Luke Hay and everyone else who helped put me in touch with the right people and advised me on sponsorship over the past few months.

This poster, and all posters at the event were designed by John Cooper from Atomicshed. You can also buy a BarCampBrighton themed limited edition print from kapow.me.

Finally thanks to everyone else I may have missed and all who came along!

BarCamp’s underway and going really well so far. If you couldn’t make it today because of dConstruct partying and/or the weather put you off leaving the house, try and make tomorrow instead. Join us for breakfast at 9, sessions start at 10. There is still room on the board, so you should be able to do a talk as well ;-)

For those of you who missed the hackathon post, check it out and help to solve a real problem the Student Union have. Prizes from kapow.me for the winners.

Big thank you to the Media Services Unit at the University of Sussex and the Sussex Innovation Centre.  They have provided the final sets of projectors, critical for ensuring participants can show off their multimedia wares.

Just under a day to go - hope you are all set! Here’s a map of the BarCamp venue - all the rooms are listed, print it out and bring it with you to ensure you never get lost!

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Perhaps a BarCamp first, certainly a BarCampBrighton first - Geek Yoga. We will be having yoga sessions on Sunday afternoon being run by Jenny.

Times of sessions are:

• 13:45 - 14:15
• 14:30 - 15:00
• 15:30 - 16:00

It will be quite gentle as she is aware most people will be in jeans and t-shirts.  It will focus on shoulders, wrists, stretching and breathing exercises - all the problem area for those who spend far too much time hunched over a keyboard.

Jenny will bring a few mats, but it would be good if you can bring their own - you might already be bringing one to sleep on anyway….