01:14:35 #startmeeting 01:14:36 Meeting started Mon Apr 8 01:14:35 2013 UTC. The chair is billf. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 01:14:37 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 01:14:51 #chair billf justis jeremyhwllc alpo coxn 01:14:53 Current chairs: alpo billf coxn jeremyhwllc justis 01:15:02 #topic April Meeting 01:15:39 Meeting week, so we need to div up the tasks 01:16:43 I volunteer to MC 01:17:40 or order pizza and drinks 01:17:46 still no laptop 01:18:03 I have confirmed Wesley for hosting and the parking gate 01:20:02 I will do the video and a/v 01:20:46 if the others show up, we can reassing duties 01:23:23 #topic April Meeting 01:23:35 Free IPA talk 01:24:06 It is the Open Source Cities by Jason Hibbets 01:24:21 sorry, I meant May 01:24:29 #topic May Meeting 01:24:43 Free IPA talk - Jeremy Agee 01:25:04 I will ping Jeremy to see where he's at 01:25:21 #action billf will email Jeremy Agee to check on talk status 01:25:49 #topic BarCampRDU 01:26:57 This week has been tough at work so on ly a little activity 01:27:11 received a sponsor 00shirts 01:27:59 I updated the signup up roster to reflect how many seats have been unlocked 01:28:46 back 01:28:56 I believe nearly 500 has been raised 01:29:03 yeah, Sunday night seems like a consistently difficult night for these SC meetings 01:29:21 My gut instinct is telling me to ditch the tshirts 01:29:29 dangerous move 01:29:41 t-shirts matter to sponsors 01:29:42 POSSCON was awesome but no tshirt 01:29:48 fair 01:29:56 what paid for POSSCON? 01:29:57 why dangerous? 01:30:06 because t-shirts motivate sponsors 01:30:15 and raise awareness and attendance for future years 01:31:14 are we still missing coxn and alpo? 01:31:26 POSSCON had tons of sponsorship 01:31:55 ok, cool 01:32:01 how did the sponsors get visibility to the attendees? 01:32:24 Web site mostly and a swag bag 01:32:50 so lets say we focus on the food and a free venue 01:33:01 we only need 5 sponsors 01:33:11 at 200 each 01:34:20 we can just say the we did not have time for tshirts or not enough interest in sponsorship 01:34:27 this year 01:34:37 ok 01:34:46 where are the rest of the volunteers? 01:34:58 in the past, there was a lot more help raising sponsorship 01:35:02 I recieved BarCampRDU volunteers? 01:35:02 we organized on a mailing list 01:35:11 sorry 01:35:30 my impression is that, this year, the TriLUG SC has become the BarCampRDU volunteers 01:35:45 Ireceived a suggestion to dump the tshirts and cut corporate out of the picture as much as possible 01:35:55 ok 01:35:58 suggestion from whom? 01:36:07 hold on 01:37:26 just sent it to the sc 01:38:17 I have had little response from the barcamp mailing lists 01:38:55 I am thinking of asking for a response from the lists just to see who is still actively listening 01:39:19 Thanks. I replied on the list. 01:39:25 and maybe pinging Jason Austin again to get some suggestions 01:39:40 Ask on Facebook and Twitter 01:40:11 if you don't get enough response in two days, then email everyone who has registered and talk about how BarCamp is a conference put on *by the attendees* at that we need some people to help *before* the event instead of just the day of 01:41:05 this is a drill weekend for me so I have had very little focus time this week 01:42:50 I haven't been to BarCamp so I don't know how to contribute to this discussion 01:43:16 jeremyhwllc: That's fair, and please focus on drill. It does, however, further make my point about "where are the volunteers?" 01:43:46 billf: It's a whole lot like FOSSfair, but with less central organization. 01:43:46 I agree, so lets brainstorm a bit what we can do 01:44:40 Can we think of folks to recruit, organizers etc.. 01:44:58 in addition to the mailing lists 01:45:04 We can reach out to past organizers, people on our friends lists and followers, and people who have registered to attend. 01:45:09 didn't I see something this week about getting RH building for barcamp 01:45:31 It would help a whole lot to have a list of what we would delegate to volunteers before we make the call. 01:45:33 I reached out to the NC Near Space folks this week 01:45:43 jeremyhwllc: how so? 01:46:03 billf: sounds familiar ... I think jeremyhwllc emailed hibbets about it? 01:46:54 mostly asking for a preso and to stir some interest 01:47:22 ok 01:47:38 so, let's split this agenda item and finish it 01:47:43 1) recruiting volunteers 01:47:48 2) name what volunteers would do 01:47:50 3) ? 01:47:53 4) next agenda item 01:48:24 need to shake the sponsor trees 01:48:35 ok 01:48:43 so, we recruit volunteers to shake sponsorship trees 01:49:10 and, in our recruitment post, we talk about that being our first priority and then talk about a few other things we could use help on 01:49:17 WRAL said they would sponsor free ads 01:49:21 here are some of the things that could help: 01:49:38 + someone to coordinate volunteers for the *day of*, schedule slots, etc 01:50:05 need a tweeter 01:50:05 + someone to coordinate sponsorship recruitment (they should have multiple people working for them) 01:50:14 jeremyhwllc: day of, or prior? 01:50:25 jeremyhwllc: do you tweet? 01:50:33 I did in 2008. I burnt out on it. 01:50:40 I do but not enough 01:50:43 ok 01:50:58 I can't bring myself to talk without listening and there was too much noise for me to effectively listen. 01:51:27 on twitter? 01:51:28 + someone to plan food, tables, untensils, room, food schedule, etc 01:51:31 jeremyhwllc: yes 01:52:01 audio video 01:52:13 + someone to track audio/video 01:52:31 I feel like I'm forgetting something obvious 01:52:32 Google Hangouts would be a nice way to broadcast 01:53:46 Shall we capture all this on the wiki? 01:53:57 or Google Docs perhaps 01:54:36 Wiki is traditional Google docs is easy 01:55:21 jeremyhwllc: do whatever works for you 01:55:35 I'm skimming old emails from past barcamps to see what else we deuptized 01:57:42 jeremyhwllc: I forwarded something useful to steering@ 01:59:26 #action justis to write a draft post for recruiting volunteers 01:59:45 #action justis and jeremyhwllc to have lunch this week to discuss other ideas 01:59:49 ok 01:59:49 next agenda item 01:59:53 billf: anything else up? 02:00:10 #topic Girl Develop It 02:00:40 coxn visited A Small Orange on Thursday and met Racheal from GDI 02:00:50 nice 02:01:02 imo, coxn has been rockin' it on this one 02:01:09 they will hold the Linux Intro on May 4th 02:01:22 awesome 02:01:31 that's a Saturday? 02:01:37 yep 02:01:43 cool 02:01:55 anything else to discuss here rather than on steering@? 02:02:03 nope 02:02:05 I think coxn has kept the ball rolling well via email 02:02:17 @async++ 02:02:31 @coxn++ 02:02:32 he has done an awesome job with the code of conduct 02:02:36 agreed 02:02:43 next item? 02:02:52 alpo send his appologies for tonight 02:03:13 #topic General Items 02:03:25 I'm done for the night 02:03:35 same here 02:03:42 jeremyhwllc: any open issues? 02:03:50 good night all 02:03:52 nope 02:03:56 cool 02:03:58 thanks!!!!!! 02:04:02 jeremyhwllc: have a good week! 02:04:04 night - thanks 02:04:07 billf: thanks! 02:04:11 #endmeeting