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Baiju M
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> The meeting is planned for today at 9:00.
>
> It would be great if someone can own up to making minutes of the
> meeting and posting them on the wiki.
>
> I have some other commitments and will not be there for meeting but
> will keep my client connected so that I have the logs. I will go
> through them later and try to filter out the decisions offline.
>
> I am attaching below a simple agenda outline which we can use to
> keep the meeting focused and productive. Please feel free to
> modify it before the meeting on this thread so that we can make the
> best use of our time. We can strip out parts of this if it's
> premature to talk about it now. I think the main points are the
> sponsorships and the volunteers
>
> Also, I apologise in advance if I sound like a suit. :)
>
> * Date
> - When is the conference?
> - Are there other conferences around at the same time?
> - David explicitly asked that it not be competitive so we need to be
> doubly sure.
>
> * Positions (IMPORTANT)
> ** We need people to take up ownership for the following positions.
> They need to coordinate the area.
> - Treasurer - Needs to keep track of money and maintain the balance
> sheet, accounts etc.
> - Logistics - Needs to worry about venue, facilities (computers,
> net etc.), accommodation for foreign people etc.
> - Advertising - Needs to open pipelines with various channels
> (mags, newspapers, blogs, people etc.) to make sure
> that the event is sufficiently publicised.
> - Participation - Needs to make sure that word of the conference is
> reached to places like colleges, companies. Needs
> to co-ordinate papers, presentations etc.
> - Website - Someone should own this up and keep it up and
> running. Should also publicise it.
> - Sponsorship - Someone should own up creation of a sponsorship
> kit, narrowing down the companies who need to
> visited and coordinating the efforts.
> - Head - The conference should have a point of contact for external
> people.
>
> * Sponsorship (IMPORTANT)
> ** We need to decide on who to visit.
> ** Need to know what will go into the sponsorship kit
> ** Need to arrange funds to get this printed. Probably voluntary donations.
> ** Need to have a time and money deadline. If we don't meet this,
> we'll have to scale down or cancel.
>
> * Format
> ** What is the event going to be like?
> ** Specifics on how many days, hours, format of talks
>
> * Venue
> ** Where do we hold this?
> ** How do we arrange things like net etc.
> ** Needs inputs from people who have done stuff like this before.
>
> * Advertising
> ** Blogs
> ** People
> ** Sites
> ** Colleges etc.
> ** Copy for formal channels like magazines etc.
>
> * Money matters
> ** How do we keep track?
> ** Separate account?
> ** Balance sheets etc.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> ~noufal
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