Startup Camp 2 Open for Registration
Sun Microsystems Invites Startup Community to Second Un-Conference
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW)
will hold its second-ever Startup Camp (http://www.startupcamp.org) at the Westin San Francisco Market
Street Hotel in San Francisco on May 7, 2007, CommunityOne day of the JavaOne
conference. A no cost, un-conference style event, Startup Camp 2 is dedicated
to bringing together the various members of the startup community for a
face-to-face, collaborative meet-up where the attendees drive the agend and maintaing an ongoing community online.
Startup Camp 2 makes use of the Open Space methodology by creating an intimate
atmosphere where all who attend are encouraged to both contribute and learn.
The conference involves leader nominated sessions where all attendees are encouraged to contribute to the
discussions. To publish topic ideas for discussion sessions or view those that
others are proposing, please visit the Discussion Ideas page at: http://wiki.startupcamp.org/wiki/StartupCamp2DiscussionIdeas.
The event will also host a round of SpeedGeeking sessions where startup
founders can compete in the Best Startup Contest. In addition to the
opportunity to present a 5-minute pitch of their business to small groups of
attendees, the participants who receive the most votes win prizes such as a personal GPS system.
Sun also invites Startup Camp attendees to join a CommunityOne reception at the
at Moscone Center from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
on May 7. All attendees who are or become Sun
Developer Network members are invited to experience the 2007 JavaOne conference
on Tuesday, May 8 (complimentary one-day access to the General Sessions, the
JavaOne Pavilion and Welcome Reception, and two (2) technical and/or BOF
sessions)
WHAT: Sun Startup Camp 2
WHEN: Monday, May 7, 2007; 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. PT
WHERE: Westin San Francisco Market Street (formerly the Argent)
50 Third Street, San Francisco
For more information and to register for this complimentary event, please go
to: http://www.startupcamp.org <http://www.startupcamp.org/>
Startup Camp 2 is a response to the overwhelming enthusiasm expressed by
attendees at Startup Camp 1, held in November 2006. For this year's event, Sun
has incorporated feedback from Startup Camp 1 to further improve the conference
and better cater to the interests of the startup community. As the following
quotes attest, Startup Camp 1 attendees particularly appreciated the collegial,
informal, interactive format of the event.
“The value of the format comes in the ability to provide the attendees
with an intimate experience where people must talk to each other. This
conference did the best I've seen yet at getting a large group of people to
talk amongst themselves. The more it can do that, the better it will be and the
greater buzz it will generate.”
“I very much appreciated the great support that Sun and the other partner
companies provided in terms of the venue, the causal atmosphere, and the lack
of any real pressured marketing. When attending no-charge events in the past, I
usually have to fend off marketing people at every turn and I was pleasantly
surprised to find the staff members from sponsoring companies attending the
sessions and participating in the discussions rather than trying to sign me up
for services or promoting their wares in the sessions.”
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