I just got a BarCamp Nashville email from Marcus Whitney. It turns out they got two Platinum Sponsors (congrats!). Who are they? Griffin Technology and WKRN. From what I understand, part of the sponsorship money will go to paying for drinks for the participants. (Hey, who wouldn’t want to hang out with a bunch of increasingly intoxicated geeks for 12 hours?)
Unless you not from around these parts, you know the significance of WKRN sponsoring an event like BarCamp Nashville. I think it is great that they are sponsoring this event, but I think it will be MUCH cooler if someone from WKRN with some authority participates at the event. Honestly, I think that is probably in the works as well. I mean, why else would WKRN sponsor the event?
TV network involvement in the internet is still WKRN’s to lose. Yesterday someone writing as “Nemesis Girl” posted this:
But I’m not ready to give up on NiT yet. The characters and characteristics may change, but I hope it will emerge from its coccoon into something great, something worthy of marvel. And maybe when it does, the new and the old can complement each other.
I am not ready to give up on WKRN yet either. I have said before that NiT as we knew it is done, but there can be something new there. I just hope that what they come up with involves a little more participation than we have seen lately. BarCamp Nashville may be a great opportunity for WKRN to try something new (again).
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Guess the link I placed to BarCamp on the internal Griffin forums generated some interest then
Nice work Casey!
I tend to agree with you, J. I haven’t been as personally involved in NiT or MCB or anything else, so I don’t have anything to lose either way. Just lots to gain. I think we’ll all end up enriched when the bigger picture comes into focus.
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