Meeting #1
Attendance: Ted, Phelan, Ryan, Jonathan, Dan, Patrick, Lisa, Billy
Agenda
- Review BCSD2
- Sponsorship
- Programming
- Tshirts
- Defcamp
- Venue
- Wifi
- Food
- Reach / marketing
Last time
- Budget was a few hundred dollars short
- Fewer attendees than last time
- Food (menu and amount) was good
- Dinner was a bit much, but not obnoxiously so
- People were less engaged, feedback came in that they had the expectation it was about the party?
- Need to set expectations better about the schedule
Potential Sponsors = Dan and Patrick
- Integral Impressions
- Digital Telepathy
- Divx
- Opera
- Belkin
- Chumby
- Eventful
- Mindtouch
- Microsoft
- Ustream
- Startupschwag
- More...?
Shirts = Phelan
- Will probably be the same format (logo)
- will go with third party printer this time
- 150 shirts =
- $6.00 each for 1 color on light
- $6.90 each for 2-3 color light
- $7.50 each for 4-6 color dark
- What color are we going with?
- Cutoff date for sponsor logos 4-11-08
Programming
- Gina from Lifehacker
- Encourage more sponsor participation and blogging
- Encourage more quasi-nontechnical stuff (stuff geeks like)
Defcamp = Dan
Bigger, badder, etc...
Venue
Have wifi set up on Wednesday? = Dan
Signage = Lisa
Food = Lisa
- Challenge how people approach their diet
- Promote local, nutrition conscientious restaurants
- Plan for 100 people for dinner?
Marketing
- Add to Eventful, wiki, calendar, etc = Ted
- Press release, blog updates, badges, etc = Patrick and Lisa
