Sponsorships and Scholarships

We're giving away 25 BloggerCon seats to members of the weblog community, at absolutely no cost. If you'd like to participate please, enter your name and email address in the form below, and click on Submit.

On September 1, we will run a script to choose 25 names, completely at random, from those submitted. We'll let you know via email if you will get to go to BloggerCon for free.

Email addresses collected here will only be used in the manner described above.

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Background 

After sending the first round of invites to BloggerCon, we got quite a bit of feedback. A lot of questions were raised, we answered them best we could, and now we want to respond with some changes and additions to the program.

Disclaimers 

The conference is run on a breakeven basis. While it's conceivable that some money will be left over, we usually end up losing a little bit of money on our professional conferences like BloggerCon.

Scholarships 

We have approximately 150 seats in the classroom we're using. About 50 of those seats will be used by speakers, staff and sponsors, leaving us with approximately 100 seats to sell.

We've decided to reserve 25 of those seats to give to members of the weblog community, at absolutely no cost.

If you'd like to participate please, enter your name and email address on the Scholarship form page and click on Submit. On September 1, we will run a script to choose 25 names, completely at random, from those submitted. We'll let you know via email if you will get to go to BloggerCon for free.

Corporate sponsors 

Corporations can sponsor specific events at BloggerCon -- for example we want to do Davos-style dinners, where people can sign up to have dinner with a famous blogger, or to discuss a specific topic. We're going to have a Saturday night reception, and lunch on Saturday.

Sponsorship is an inexpensive way to help build the blogging community, and get full credit for your generosity. Likely sponsors are technology and infrastructure companies, ISPs, publishing companies, some have even suggested that national political candidates might get goodwill by sponsoring an event at BloggerCon.

If we receive more sponsorship than we need for events, we will use these funds to make free spots available to people who'd like to attend. If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please contact John Palfrey at jpalfrey at law.harvard.edu.

Sunday Birds-Of-Feather meetings 

We've reserved several large classrooms on the Harvard Law School campus for October 5, the Sunday after BloggerCon, for Birds of Feather meetings.

Anyone from the weblog community can participate and it's free for all. $0. We're hoping to have sessions about weblogs in business and medicine, a few sessions for people who write weblog software and aggregators (without the usual pie-throwing that happens on the mail lists), a session for people running weblog programs at universities (Harvard and MIT are sure to participate, but there will probably be others).

Sunday is the idea-overflow space. If Saturday is as exciting as we expect it will be, there will be lots to talk about on Sunday.

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