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BarCampNYC3_Meeting20081701

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on January 17, 2008 at 4:58:19 pm
 
  • Max reports on Poly
    • Brilliant and crap at the same time
    • Auditorium seats 344 - lots of power along the outside walls, could use that for one track
    • Huge long hallway in front of the auditorium
    • Natural draw into that space
    • 8 Classroom that are available to us
      • 3 classrooms under direct control of IDMI
        • Power at every seat, ethernet over every seat
      • 3 rooms with no more than 8 outlets per wall with projectors
        • Will need surge protectors, etc
        • No cell service away from windows in that building
      • 2 additional rooms that may be available to us if we want them
      • Hall of fame
        • 2nd floor of wunsch building
        • No windows of note
        • Amazing screens - 8 of them controlled by dual-boot windows linux machines
        • can sleep overnight
      • Polytech has a really pro-hacker attitude
      • rumpus room

 

  • Where to put the schedule?
    • Actually create the schedule in the auditorium and move it to the classrooms?

 

  • Can only get 3 zones for wifi
    • Either do both banks of classrooms and the hall of fame, or only light up one bank of classrooms
    • Strong vote for both banks of classroom

 

  • Recommendation - start with opener, then some null time to get settled, get on the wifi, and do the schedule, and move over to the classrooms

 

  • Max request - get some sort of geographical game involved for sunday
    • Frederic Guarino will check in with area code

 

  • Sponsorships and support
    • Base expenses
    • will talk about this more next week via gTalk
    • Frederic will work with Charlie to reach out to Silicon alley insider
    • Eric will contact Jeff Pulver
    • Tony will contact David Rose
    • Frederic will contact Fred Wilson (union square ventures)
    • Howard Lindzon (lindzon ventures)
    • Scoble / fast company?

 

  • How to handle overflow
    • Waitlist
    • really encourage people to release their spots if they cant come
    • separate tickets for sat + sun?

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