EduGeek Conf 2010- 2nd June, Chorley

Published on 6th April 2010 03:39 AM

Well, the room is booked and we have speakers now queuing up, so whos coming. I've initially booked for 60 people, but can go alot higher if required. The hotel arrangements will be the same with the Ibis hotel in Preston being the base and a coach will pick you up and take you to the conf in the morning and drop you back at the hotel later, and the usual freebies will be there as well as some special EduGeek 2010 t-shirts and clothing on sale.
One idea I've had after meeting the Aruba guys earlier in the month is to have a Ruckus-Aruba 'shoot out'. So if you have a laptop please bring it and we shall see just what bandwidth we can squeeze out of one access point!!
So who's coming then?

P.S. For those new members here I forgot to add that the conf is free to attend as we pick up all the bills. All you have to do is get yourself here, but please note that it costs us around £35 per head, so there is no dropping out at the last minute unless you want a bill!

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23 Comments

Tony_Giddings - 7th April 2010, 09:41 AM
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PLease book me a seat for the Conference.

to confirm email, agiddings@connectededucation.com
thanks

Tony

Dos_Box - 7th April 2010, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Tony_Giddings

PLease book me a seat for the Conference.

to confirm email, agiddings@connectededucation.com
thanks

Tony

Are you coming from a company? I forgot to add that commercial visitors must pay for their seats, as we always set out to provide free places only for school techies who never get allowed to go to conferences for 'financial' reasons.

shoggie - 7th April 2010, 10:33 AM
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Ho do we sign up for the conference?

Dos_Box - 7th April 2010, 11:01 AM
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I shall post up an email address soon to send your details to.

Domino - 7th April 2010, 12:12 PM
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What kind of biscuits do we get...?

john - 7th April 2010, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Domino

What kind of biscuits do we get...?

I thought you would want that pie thingy, what was it Butter Pie?

Gatt - 7th April 2010, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Domino

What kind of biscuits do we get...?

A box of those broken ones from Netto (£2 a box!)

reggiep - 8th April 2010, 11:04 AM
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It was great last year and would really like to come this year.

AWicher - 8th April 2010, 02:09 PM
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Booked the week off work. @Dos_Box We going to Prego's? (Formerly, le frog) the day b4 again?

P.s
2nd, for Butter Pie

Domino - 8th April 2010, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by john

I thought you would want that pie thingy, what was it Butter Pie?

AHHHH, butter potato pie...
nomnomnom

ICTNUT - 15th April 2010, 11:58 AM
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As usual we will be there, looking forward to the "night before"

Hmm I may have to phone the Ibis hotel and get them to stock up for us as we seemed to empty the bar last time

adamw - 20th April 2010, 11:49 AM
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i am in Chorley a lot so i will deffently be there this year it sounds like fun!

kadjas - 20th April 2010, 11:07 PM
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Long, long drive for me...
So what's the deal? What to expect apart from getting hammered the night before?

pauldrans - 21st April 2010, 09:48 AM
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I will be attending.

Is there a start time?

/Paul D

CAM - 21st April 2010, 01:31 PM
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Count me in again.

powdarrmonkey - 24th April 2010, 11:19 PM
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So, it's under six weeks to the conference and I still need to justify it to the powers that be (like, really soon) but I still don't know who's speaking about what or how to register. Are there any details available yet?

Seriously, I have open conference management software available and I'm more than happy to take a lead in getting registration underway, but you have to sanction it first - I don't want to feel I'm taking over. If it's just that you're short of time, we can fix that...

stevehill06 - 24th April 2010, 11:34 PM
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I am thinking about coming up for the conference (would be first time at an Edugeek conference). Was wondering if there was any details about who is speaking? Would like to know before I book (long way from Sunny Devon)

ahuxham - 26th April 2010, 11:23 AM
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I'm with Powdarrmonkey, any news, or any viable options for those that can't drive all the way up North?

Perhaps next conference can be more central? And before its said Chorley may be central if you count the tip of Scotland, but its not central to the populous!

azrael78 - 26th April 2010, 11:29 AM
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I'm in the same boat as Stevehill06 really - except I'm in Somerset as opposed to Sunny Devon

So I have to hold off booking anything until I know what the schedule is - who is speaking, what are they speaking about - what's the timeframe for the entire conference?

Not all of us can simply 'grab' a day or 2 off work and then find the cash to get to the conference.

Some of us actually need to organise it and save up - of course if we don't know what's going on at the conference, then it's very difficult to actually justify the time or money.

Az

sparkeh - 26th April 2010, 11:38 AM
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Like others I need to justify a trip to a conference so some details to present to the boss would be appreciated.

I think the issue of location has come up before, I think that having meetings in other parts of the country or moving the conference round the country so that everyone has a chance to attend at some point would be a good idea.
If time is an issue I am sure that there are more than enough willing people around the country willing to help organise.