Hi everyone, We're really excited about seeing a lot of you in Austin in March!
If you don't get through this whole email, here are the action items: 1. RSVP in Plancast if you haven't already (http://plancast.com/p/33pl) 2. Event website / swag design: We need help. There's a $2,000 budget and/or in-kind opportunity here (design the site and become a sponsor of the Unconference) 3. Contribute suggestions for keynote/panel speakers: http://bit.ly/hoMqo7 4. Sponsors: Help reach out to sponsors. A good excuse to call on behalf of the community. Email [email protected] to get in the loop and help out. 5. Follow @coworksxsw for ongoing updates! Here's the detailed update: When: Thursday, March 10th from 3 pm - 11 pm Where: We recently locked in a really awesome (and brand new!) venue for the event called Hangar Lounge, located just a few blocks from the convention center in downtown Austin. Check out the pics here: http://on.fb.me/ib3M9N Who: 100 people have indicated their attending the event on Plancast ( http://plancast.com/p/33pl), including folks from the UK, France, Spain & Germany!; Total capacity: 150. Sign up if you haven't already. Everyone on plancast will get advance notice when the Eventbrite page goes live. What: Unconference format with 2-3 pre-organized keynote panels. We'd love suggestions for the keynote speakers. I kicked it off with a couple ideas ( here <http://bit.ly/hoMqo7>). Please submit your own ideas. In the next few weeks we'll be issuing a 'call for submissions' so that you all can provide suggestions for sessions at the unconference. We'll then ask the community to vote on their favorites. Start thinking about a session you might want to host! Website: We need some support here. The designer we were going to work with backed out. We're talking to a couple other people, but if you'd like to design/code the page or have a referral to do it, please let us know! Right now we've got $2,000 budgeted for the website / tee shirt / bag designs. It would be awesome if someone that's already a part of the community wanted to take this project on. Basically it'll be a landing page with info about the event and link to the Eventbrite page. We'd like to get it up asap. Sponsors/Budget: In order to keep the per person 'registration fee' down as much as possible, we're working to obtain sponsorship by great companies to cover the baseline unconference costs (venue, food, drinks, AV, etc.). So far, we've received a verbal commitment by a "founding sponsor" to provide $4,000. Time for you to get involved! Our total sponsorship goal is $15,500, which will allow us to keep the registration fee to $30 (inclusive of everything -- food, beverages, swag!). Anything beyond $15,500 would lower the registration fee. If you are interested in reaching out to sponsors or collecting in-kind donations on behalf of the Unconference, please email [email protected]. We're going to do a conference call with the "sponsorship committee" on Monday to make a plan of attack. If you have connections to in-kind donations, the big needs are: food for dinner, tee shirts, signage, and the website/branding. Alcohol must come from the venue. Spreadsheet with details on the budget here: http://bit.ly/haUMQ8 <http://bit.ly/hoMqo7> (second tab) Twitter account: We reserved @coworksxsw. Let us know if you want to be on the twitter team and we'll give you the credentials for the account. Otherwise, follow us for more details! Look forward to having some margaritas with everyone in March! Cheers, Campbell & Anna [email protected] [email protected] @loosecubes www.loosecubes.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
