Thank You for Making Seattle reBarCamp a Huge Success

The fourth annual Seattle reBarCamp took place last Thursday, March 3rd, at the Seattle Center’s Northwest Rooms.  It is amazing to me that this event evolves by the efforts of unpaid volunteers, the financial support of sponsors and the participation of the attendees. 

For those who feel reBarCamps are a fading fad, I beg to differ.   We don’t have an official “count” of how many participants joined us last week… we roughly estimate that we had over 600 based on how many name badges were utilized.  

Thanks again to Jim Marks for kicking off the day and to our panelist and moderators of the Rookie Sessions (which were very well attended).   The Sponsor Spotlight was also a new “experiment” this year which included sponsors having their own vendor area.   Although the spotlight sessions fizzled, sponsors seemed to enjoy their exposure throughout the day.   We actually had sponsors signing up to take part in our event up to the day before reBarCamp!  Because of this, we’re going to make a nice donation from reBarCamp to this year’s chosen charity, Solid Ground.   Once we have that figure, we will share it with you.

Did you take photos or video of the event?   We invite you to share them by uploading them to our group on Flickr and check out everyone’s photos from the event.

Considering the magnitude, everything really came together great and on behalf of the planning committee, we thank you!   Overall the feedback has been very positive…and we even have folks asking “when’s the next Seattle reBarCamp.”   If you want to stay informed of when the next event is “like” us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.  

PS:  Looks like the next reBarCamp in San Francisco (where it all began) is July 25, 2011.