HolidayCamp? Communities that play together stay together (60)
The holiday seasons are quickly approaching. With the growing concern over the economy and how it affects startups and the technology industry I’ve recently spoken with a number of startup founders who are looking for cost effective ideas for holiday parties.
Despite the doom & gloom over the economy, our community has a number of exciting things to celebrate. We saw a record number of startups launching in Montreal this year. We have had a growing list of community events including Barcamp, StartupCamp, DemoCamp, StartupDrinks, Founders & Founders, Entrepreneur’s Breakfasts, MontrealNewTech, GameCamp (plus others I’m sure I’ve forgotten) take hold this year.
With the size of many of our startups still under the threshold to throw a large party, the cautionary good sense about budgets and spending levels – there has been a discussion among the startup community about hosting a shared holiday party in December that would be open to all startups, contractors and members of the technology community.
With a great DJ, drinks and lot’s of friends we think it would be a better chance to enjoy & celebrate the seasons delights as a community with a large fun party then many of us doing smaller parties.
The organizing group is right now working on finalizing a date (Dec. 11th (Thurs), 12th (Fri), 13th (Sat) or Dec. 18th (Thurs)) and the location (Somewhere on the Main, St. Laurent Blvd area).
We are going to have door tickets (which include some drinks) and individual drink tickets to cover the costs of the event with any proceeds going to one of the many worthy Montreal charities (Old Mission Brewery or Montreal Childrens Hospital). Prices for the drink tickets & door tickets are going to be startup pricing and designed to be very affordable for anyone looking to attend. We may also have some sponsors donating a few prizes for a door prize draw.
This would be an open event with significant others, friends and employees all invited to attend. If you, or your startup team are interested in participating in this we are trying to guage the numbers to finalize the location.
Please comment on this blog post with an indication of the number of people from your company who might be interested in attending the event.
We will confirm the location & details on pre-purchasing tickets shortly.
Me + 3
Thanks Austin
With significant others, staff and a few friends of the company we think we would be around 25.
If everyone can give us #’s as close as possible to what you would bring that would be great.
I can’t give you numbers yet, but can put the word out to the gang once a date is close to being set.
I suggest some games (Guitar Hero / Rock Band) but that’s just the gamergeek in me wanting some interactivity to my drinking/socializing!
DM me if you want some location suggestions or help.
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Thanks for the great initiative !
Christian Laforte
President, Feeling Software
December 18 seems to be the most voted date.
regards Robert
We’ll post details on tickets, event activities and other stuff early in the week so people can plan accordingly.
Thanks everyone.
Many thanks
Fritz
We would be a small group around six
@JSCournoyer ping me for a sitter, my daughter or some of her friends could help.
It looks like Thursday the 18th will be the night and we’ll post details on ticket purchases shortly.
What about a meal before the party? Could be optional at an extra cost.
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We thought about that, but we pinged a few people and it was going to be too hard to co-ordinate schedules, catering & menu requests for the time we had.
Next year we may start early and do something with this.
About to post the details for December 18th party.
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[...] Thursday December 18th at 8:00pm everyone is welcome to join us at CelebrateCamp (was HolidayCamp). This shared holiday party will allow us all to come join in the holiday festivities, drink, be [...]
Is there additionnal costs to the start up besides the drink tickets? Will there be any food and if so is that additionnal cost?
Please let me know
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