KW Linuxfest/Meeting-2017-05-31
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Mumble Meeting of 31 May 2017
Agenda
- Where to hold it. (Conestoga College Again This year )
- Funding ( I am happy to put up some of the funds but I know we had talked about it.)
- Attendance (How to increase)
- Payment at the door or online.
- Call for papers on June 10th
Meeting Notes
- Participants: Colin J. Mills; Mark Paré; BobJonkman
- Audio: (25m45s, 21.6 MB, Play)
- Venue?
- Vehikl worked well
- Colin is back at school, so Conestoga College is better
- Colin will arrange booking, forms to fill in, &c
- Funding
- There will be a registration fee of $5.00 to $10.00
- Marc will investigate funding from "Kitchener Waterloo Foundation"
- Payment?
- Online: encourages people to come once registered; ensure payments are actually received
- Expenses?
- Printing?
- Rental Venue? No, college is no cost.
- Pizza and coffee need to be paid
- Marketing?
- Posters on lampposts?
- Marc will cover marketing and expenses
- Equipment?
- Marc may ahve some coffee cups
- Venue will have some equipment
- College does require ordering chairs, &c.
- Streaming video
- through the college? AV department?
- Maybe just a recording, not a livestream
- Using LibrePlanet streaming software as part of a talk (cell phones, webcams)
- Attendance?
- Was sparse last year
- Don't cap registrations, it discourages people from registering if it appears full
- In marketing materials and registration forms indicate there's a maximum, but continue to accept registrations anyway
- What worked, what didn't?
- Past year (2017) talks were more interesting
- Interactive presentations?
- Time allocations? Presentations, then workshops (so they can run over)
- What kinds of workshops? Put request for workshops in Call For Papers
- CFP to be released on 10 June
- Multiple streams? Presentations and workshops
- Needs more attendance (30+)
- More marketing needed to increase attendance numbers
- Model on Software Freedom Day? http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2014/Canada/Kitchener/TWC
- Registrations
- Use Eventbrite?
- Call for Papers
- December for deadline?
- More advertising after speakers are established
- Selection committee for choosing papers: Colin, Marc, Paul Nijjar, Verdi R-D, Bob.
- Commercial Sponsor
- eSentire, Clearpath Robotics, Shopify, Dejero, Vehikl, Aeryon
- $100 sponsorship?
- funds posters, banners
- Have a page for requesting sponsorships
- Website http://kwlinuxfest.ca
- Request for Sponsors page
- Back end wiki for organization on kwlinuxfest.ca site?
Meeting notes by Bob Jonkman
Text Channel
[7:44 PM] Connecting to server kwvoip.ca. [7:44 PM] Connected. [7:44 PM] Welcome message: Welcome to this server running Murmur. Enjoy your stay! [7:52 PM] To Root: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2242 [7:59 PM] (Channel) cjm: * Where to hold it. (Conestoga College Again This year ) * Funding ( I am happy to put up some of the funds but I know we had talked about it.) * Attendance (How to increase) * Payment at the door or online. * Call for papers on June 10th [8:07 PM] (Channel) Marc: eventbrite.ca --- online tickets [8:13 PM] To Root: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2014/Canada/Kitchener/TWC [8:28 PM] To Root: irc:irc.freenode.net/#ubuntu-ca [8:32 PM] cjm disconnected. [8:32 PM] Marc disconnected. [8:33 PM] Recording stopped
