I wanted to take a few moments and welcome and thank our newest two sponsors: Temenos and the Agile Alliance. Both of these great organizations join our impressive roster of sponsors.

Temenos runs the annual Systems Thinking in Action conference promoting growth and understanding in systems thinking. They also have Temenos retreats; these are intimate growth and vision retreats in containers of safety (Temenos is Greek for container). A couple of your organizers have been on these retreats and we can say they are deeply moving.

The Agile Alliance the non-profit supporting the adoption of Agility as described by the 4 values and 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto.  With their sponsorship, Agile Coach Camp can offer a yearly membership into the Alliance for $10.  We’ll do this during registration as you MUST attend to get the offer.  You are not required to join, and if you are attending the Alliance’s Agile2015, you payment for that conference automatically gets you the yearly membership.  If you aren’t attending though and want to join, just bring $10 to registration and we’ll get your name and email to pass to the Alliance so they can register you.  The Alliance has fantastic resources for members and runs occasional virtual conferences as well.

We’ve added a new ticket type to Eventbrite so that you can get a high quality Adidas polo shirt with this year’s Agile Coach Camp logo embroidered on the front.  The cost is $50 per shirt; at about 25 or more ordered, the volume discount will start letting us make a small sum to add towards additional goodies at the Camp (additional food or maybe rent a space for lightning talks on the Friday).

Impress your friends! OK, at least let them know you came…

If you are interested in a shirt, drop by the Eventbrite page and buy a ACC Shirt ticket.

If you want one and aren’t attending Camp (why not!?), go ahead and purchase one, then contact Paul Boos (@paul_boos on Twitter) and we’ll make arrangements to ship one to you anyway for $10 (again there will be an overage that will be used to help pay for the camp).  Look as smart as the folks that are attending!

First, the event is shaping up well; we have Tricia Chirumbole as our Open Space facilitator. She actually stepped up several weeks ago and I failed to get that published / (failure = I learned something). We’re very excited to have her and she helped us shape our super Theme: “Expanding our art to sculpt effective 21st century organizations”.

Excella Consulting joins our roster of sponsors; with their support, we’re on our way to providing an outstanding Camp.

If you haven’t checked out the Venue yet, you should!  This venue, besides being a great historic building, is also a non-profit that helps improve racial justice.  We’re very excited to be working with them since our payment for the facilities directly helps them. Our hope is to raise enough funds that we can also make an additional donation to them.