The SF Happy Hour meet-up

Last night a few of us convened at the Ferry Buildings’ famed Taylors Refresher for our first Happy Hour local meet up to start the talks of on the ground support for the event.  The turn out, though few was impressive.   We have some new volunteers on board of great importance to the success of our effort.  We opened up discussion on getting some support with Tech set-up, load in (night before) help, registration, and Food.  If you are going to get a bunch of geeks together for a BarCamp they will want to eat.

Cindy Lin of Staged4More has some experience in organizing conferences and sponsorships and suggested some great ideas for fueling the campers as well as our getting people registered.   Eric Bryant new contributor to the Geek Estate Blog,  RE Coach and Wine connoisseur showed up fresh from a nice sunny day in Napa with Wine in hand to offer some enthusiasm for tech support and word of mouth promotion.  Staycee G. of Green Valley Prudential tagged along, new to the Web 2.0 idea she seems very excited (hope we didn’t scare you too much Staycee.)   We also had Pat Kitano of the all mighty Transparent RE blog show up with MacBook in hand to share some great insights on last months RE Tech South event and their efforts of coordinating.

All in all it was a nice couple of hours spent in the dusk of the city’s day, meeting a few of the local Camp volunteers to get to know one another and brainstorm a little of what needs to happen in the next few months.  July will be here before we know it, and with the fireball of an event that RE Bar Camp is becoming, we are going to need some real good local support.