PodCamp NH

I can not tell you how many venues the team has talked to for PodCamp NH 2010, slated for October 23-24, 2010. None of them have been willing to budge on price so that I can warrant having PodCamp NH for an affordable price. Yet. I’m hoping this post flushes one out.

Yes, we do pay our venues. However, we are a low cost learning event with a handful of sponsors, so we have a price point. We are not a for profit event. We are a user-driven educational event.

If you are a venue who meets the criteria below, please comment and I’ll get in touch with you. I’ve tried colleges, high schools, hotels and theaters so far, and have run into several hurdles at each one.

1. Can hold up to 200 people

2. Internet Connection with Wifi that can sustain 200 people

3. Ability to cater lunches OR allow us to have food catered

4. Parking – free or low cost, and plentiful and easy to find. Street parking is not ideal.

5. Large room to use as keynote and open/close room, will hold all 200 people even if some standing. May also use for larger/big draw classes

6. Four break out rooms that can hold up to 40ish people each for smaller classes

7. All rooms on same floor with a gathering area for hall sessions and recharging between classes is preferable if possible

8. Projectors and Screens in each room a must, podium and mic nice but not required

9. Table or desk seating nice, but not required. Partial table seating/partial theater seating can also work

10. Wheelchair Accessible

11. In any of the following areas: Concord, Manchester

Hi everyone!

Just to keep you in the loop after our team call last night (Go Team!):

• We are looking at two dates in October 2010 and will update you once we clear it with the venue
• We will still be charging something to attend
• We are losing the sleepover component
• We will give folks who registered the chance to roll their registration over to the new dates or to cancel once we have the dates finalized
• We will be issuing full or partial refunds to those that need them once we rewrite the venue contract and figure out the new cost
• We will still have live music playing all weekend
• We will still be offering food and having an after party, though those details will change a bit as well
• We still have room for sponsors and sessions
• We still plan to have Battledecks and other cool stuff as listed

Stay tuned for the details as we get them, and we can’t wait to see you!

After lengthy team discussion and thorough analysis of the sign up rate, we have made the difficult decision to postpone PodCamp NH. It seems the Father’s Day weekend is a tough one for folks in the region, which we completely understand!

Please know that we will have a new date for you by next Tuesday, and that this event will still absolutely rock your socks off!

Please also know that this will affect the cost, and we will determine refund options for everyone next week as well – those who wish to attend on the new date who have paid will be accommodated, and those who can’t attend will as well.

Please stay tuned! The Eventbrite page has been temporarily disabled while we sort out the logistics of the change, and will be active again at the same address once we work out the kinks next week.

(And yes, this is still an active event seeking both session leaders and sponsors, it is simply going to be on a weekend that works better for everyone so that more people can attend and learn and make connections.)

We’d like to thank Microsoft, Tungle and Awareness for becoming our first three sponsors of PodCamp NH 2010!

We’ll be adding logos as they come in…

MICROSOFT (Sponsor)

MicroArts (Friend of PodCamp NH)

(Sponsor)

(Friend of PodCamp)

We are so excited to see you starting to sign up to attend, sponsor or lead a session for this year’s PodCamp NH! We can’t even begin to fully express how phenomenal this event is going to be, especially with the added element of dorm life to foster even closer bonds and extended learning and teaching and creating for those who can stay. We also hope that the availability of the dorms at a low rate makes it easier for our friends from PodCamps all over the world to come and be part of this unique experience with us.

PodCamp NH 2010 is the second PodCamp here in NH, and most assuredly the most unique. We are opening our arms to everyone, not just social media types, because social media is simply part of the lexicon now. We want the techies, the coders, the creatives (film, music, photography, art, design, etc), the comedians, the marketers, the psychologists… the list goes on. We want to help everyone add these tools to what they do, learn new things, and grow.

This is YOUR PodCamp. You can sign up for sessions and see proposed sessions on the sessions tab (above), to sponsor on the sponsor tab. If you don’t want dorm life, there is a list of hotels under travel (though none have offered to match the spectacular dorm rate yet!). Registration is open over on Eventbrite.  Of note, we know it’s on Father’s Day weekend, and we encourage you to bring your children and parents during the day by using the Day Pass option. We have limited dorm accommodations so those overnight tickets are reserved for the adults. There is plenty of room at this one for everyone to grab one of the types of tickets and be part of it, and we even hope that some of the younger and older generations might want to lead sessions as well.

Meanwhile, here is a taste of what’s already on deck for this fabulous event:

PodCamp NH is designed to foster learning, teaching and to strengthen the bonds of the NH community. We’re taking over the dorms at New Hampton School this year. Not just because it’s cool (it is) but because we know that being around creative, smart, savvy, fun people for longer than just 8 hours at a time is going to foster bonds that last far beyond the weekend. We won’t be a bit surprised to see new startups, new film or music projects, new teams, new collaborations and new friendships forming in this PodCamp NH 2010 incubator.

Are you ready? At the end of PodCamp NH we’ll be a better NH, and a better us.

At our disposal:

A theater, smart classrooms with projectors, dorms, full cafeteria with amazing restaurant quality food, music, a master classroom fully integrated with audio and video, a computer lab, a library, a lounge, parking, tennis courts, soccer fields, and so much more.

Who should come:

If you miss college, if you wanted to go to college and couldn’t, if you love to learn or teach, if you have a film or music project you’ve been waiting to do, if you want to make an app, if you want to be a better educator, marketer, government rep or more – this is the weekend to make it happen.

Be One Of Our Sponsors

Lead One Of Our Sessions

Be One Of Our Volunteers

Register for PodCamp NH 2010!

We’re all working hard on bringing you the best PodCamp NH 2010 possible. We have our venue (New Hampton School), we’ve made it a sleepover camp with use of the dorms, and we have our very first sponsor (Microsoft)!

Stay tuned to this page as we get more information for you. If you have a company or individual who would like to sponsor, have them contact PCNH founder Leslie Poston via email or one of the other team members.

Since we lost the site as explained here and are having to rebuild it, I thought you’d enjoy having the live, collaborative Google Wave notes many attendees took last summer here for reference. About half of the attendees had Google Wave invites at the time, and many of those who had the Wave participated. We’ll start a new Wave of notes for the 2010 PodCamp NH. Note: You need to be logged in to your Google account to see the Wave. Enjoy:

It looks VERY much like our PodCamp NH blog got lost in the recent trouble I had with my web host across all blogs and web sites. It seems to have been the only blog affected this completely – all other sites were recovered and repaired. I will try and recover the lost posts after the holidays, including the links to all of the slide presentations, etc.

If you can help by sending your links again, in case I can’t recover the files (which would be tragic, but I’m preparing just in case), please email your links to info@podcampnh.com with the subject PodCamp NH 2009 Lost Links.

Thank you for your patience,

Leslie Poston
Uptown Uncorked and Film POP!