KW Linuxfest/Meeting-2017-08-18

Mumble Meeting of 18 August 2017

When: 18 August 2017 from 8:00pm to 9:00pm

Where: Mumble : mumble://kwvoip.ca/KW%20Linuxfest?title=KWVoIP%20-%20Kitchener%20Waterloo%20Voice%20over%20IP%20Users%20Group

Agenda

Deliverables

for this meeting (in order of urgency)

• Mail redirection for info@kwlinuxfest.ca, personalized addresses for organizers (cjm)
• Letter to sponsors (cjm)
• Letter to exhibitors (BobJonkman)
• Web site:
  • Transit access for attendees
  • SSL cert for website https://kwlinuxfest.ca/ (cjm)
  • Wiki on website https://kwlinuxfest.ca/wiki/ (cjm)

New items

• Conference Management software: https://github.com/frab/frab
  • Client (desktop): http://www.toastfreeware.priv.at/confclerk/
  • Client (Android): https://wilmer.gaa.st/main.php/giggity.html
  • For an example see https://debconf17.debconf.org/schedule/mobile/
• Put event ticket purchasing online (Eventbrite?)

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Meeting Notes

Participants: User:BobJonkman, Colin J. Mills (cjm), Marc Paré

Mail Server

• cjm says Silverwizard has set up mail server
• There are mailboxes for some of us
• There is a Mailman mailing list server
• We should have mailing lists for
  • Organizers
  • Presenters
  • Exhibitors
  • Attendees

Rough Sponsership Email

Hello,

The KW Linuxfest would like to offer you a position to be an active sponsor. We are a homegrown conference who have been actively working to promote the use of Open Source Software as well as the Linux operating system. We are hosting the conference in the beginning of 2018 and would like corporate involvement to be able to help grow the conference and become more involved within the community. If your company would be interested, your spot would include a board in the hallway as well as a booth. Any contribution is welcome. The conference will be held on January 27th 2018 at Conestoga College. If you are interested please email sponserships[at]kwlinuxfest.ca.

We look forward to being able to share and promote open source technologies with the KW community.

All the best, the KW Linuxfest committee.

• Needs some spell checking before sending.

Exhibitor Invitation

• Bob Jonkman has not prepared his letter yet.
• It will be based on the Sponsorship letter, above

Web site

• SSL (httpS) is working properly: https://kwlinuxfest.ca
• Colin will work on installing the wiki

Registrations

• Eventbrite.ca or
• http://www.brownpapertickets.com/
  • cjm will explore in more detail, we'll make decision at next meeting.

Conference Software

• Our needs are simple, we'll go with just a .ics file
  • See Event Schedule
• Bob will make his NextCloud server available as a calendar repository

To do

• Colin will meet with Sean Howard (Silverwizard)
• Colin will check out transit availability, then post on the Website
• Marc will work on a grant application, needs budgeting information
• Colin will get info on submitted presentation proposals

Next meeting

• Thursday, 7 September 2018 at Cafe Pyrus

Text Channel

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