Below are notes from Monday's #MesosCon <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon> program committee meeting. As noted last Thursday, we've begun meeting twice a week in the lead-up to MesosCon.
Dave 08/04/2014 Attendees Dave Lester, Isabel Jimenez, Vinod Kone, Chris Aniszczyk, Matt Trifiro Attendee/Registration Update As of last Friday: 196 total registrants: 103 for #MesosCon, 93 attending LinuxCon with MesosCon addon. 13 hackathon registrants. We will receive updated figures this upcoming Friday. Action item: An email reminder about the hackathon will be sent Tuesday-ish by the Linux Foundation to attendees to remind them to register for the hackathon. The program committee will also personally reach out to active contributors attending MesosCon to encourage them to attend. Promo codes: Discount/promotional codes have successfully been created for a registration push. The program committee discussed various Chicago meetup groups, women engineering groups, and nearby universities to reach out to in the coming week. If you have suggestions for groups / people we should encourage to register, drop Dave an email ([email protected]). Logistics / Other Discussion about having a job board at the event. The Linux Foundation has confirmed that LinuxCon + CloudOpen will have a board that we can use; we encourage MesosCon attendees to use it! Action item: as a follow-up to previous conversations with the Linux Foundation, we will request more information regarding the room configuration for the event. Schedule Update The MesosCon schedule has been updated online, featuring several changes: * Moves BenH keynote to beginning of the event to set context for the history and future of Mesos * An additional break has been added to the schedule * John Wilkes’ keynote has been moved to the afternoon, and the Docker and ops-related talks were moved to the morning Speaker Recognition and Conference Swag Had further discussion about recognizing speakers at the conference; we'll invite them to dinner the evening before MesosCon along with giving a special Twitter gift. Waiting to hear back by end of day (Monday) on a possible budget for conference swag. Sponsor Update No updates this meeting.
