Bootstrapping
determine organizers - Dave Brondsema
- Kyle Adams
- Dan Diephouse, as assigned
email barcampers list giving them a heads-up about this year and invite them to help organize contact Joel Adams, Calvin CS dept find weekends that NH2__ rooms are available- Jul 20/21 is reserved
weekends that organizers are available- Dave gone:
- Kyle gone:
- July 4-July 8
- July 27 <- b-day, so BarCamp that day/weekend isn't out, it would just be nice if we could do it July 21 or August instead.
- follow up with Google with specific dates, etc
contact Grand Rapids jQuery developers, invite them to speak
Technical
Logistics (Point: Kyle Adams)
Registration page- Get volunteers for setup/cleanup
- BarCampGrandRapids2Food
- General schedule (see BarCampGrandRapids2Schedule)
- Presentation grid
- Whiteboard(s) for session wall
- create one w/ 30 minute tracks
- Friday evening & Saturday morning: beginning session
- Misc
- Create badges
- JeffDeMaagd has offered some
- Kyle suggests this as a basis
- Dave recommends a spot to write interests (e.g. Java,AJAX,RoR) and maybe collect website address in registration and include it
- lanyards from officemax/officedepot/staples
- Get check-in desk and highlighter
- Have paper and big fat Sharpies for instant, on-spot sign making
Sponsorship
Marketing
put on barcamp.org events- first BarCampGrandRapidsPublicityEmail
dependency: registration pagewrite it- send it to (see http://wiki.grlug.org/index.php?title=Grand_Rapids_User_Groups for links):
our barcamp listGR-JUGCalvin College's abs-chat (next mtg: none)gr-lug (next mtg: ??)GR.pm (next mtg: Jun 29)XP West MI (next mtg: Jun 26)gr-ruby (next mtg: ??)- West MI .NET user group
(next mtg: Jun 19) GR Drupal (next mtg: ??)- GRCC Linux Club?
gramug (next mtg: Jun 19)grandrapids.craigslist.org eventeventful.com eventupcoming.org eventArbCamp mailing list- BarCampChicago mailing list
barcamp.org homepage news- our own blogs
gr-jug.org- West Michigan Association of Information Technology Professionals (next mtg: none soon)
- vmware group?
- grafug (next mtg: none soon)
- wmoug (next mtg: none soon)
KLUG- WMLUG
- ??
Is there any way we could get better publicity within companies? Steelcase, Alticor, Meijer, etc.
Ideas for next year:
Run our own wiki, perhaps registration & mailing list too