las-gnome Reminder | LAS GNOME Meeting Friday at 16:00 UTC

[Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis stanfordalumni org>]

We are having our LAS GNOME meeting tomorrow, Friday, August 26th at 16:00 UTC. 

Join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/gnome-engagement

Optional dial in number: 857-216-6156

PIN: 62777

Below are a few useful links that contain info you may want to read up on if you're interested in learning more about what's going on with LAS GNOME planning.

Best, 

Nuritzi

Important links: 

Main Initiative Page: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/westcoasthackfest2016

Sponsorship & PR Plan: https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/lasgnome_sponsors  

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Reminder on Action Steps 

• @Zana - invoice Endless for $500, Intel for $1K, Aleph Objects $500, Collabora $2,500 

• @Alexandre - add the speakers to a separate page DONE

• - add the title of the talk to the schedule once Meg has finished providing the information 

• - ask Patrick if we can reuse the talk submission software for people to send their BoF idea 

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• @Nuritzi - send email to engagement list and foundation list encouraging them to register and requests travel budget if needed 

• @Nuritzi - message Zana about invoices - DONE

• @Nuritzi - update the sponsor page - DONE

• @Nuritzi - figure out Square payments for LAS GNOME 

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• @Meg - send email to developers list to encourage them to register for LAS GNOME 

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• @Sri - target some local universities 

• @Sri - sign the contract to secure the internet $4,000 

• @Sri - email Holly to see how we can divide the rooms into smaller spaces. At least two BoFs per day, but should try to allocate more space. 

• @Sri - figure out communication channels (telegram and IRC). Set up a telegram channel. 

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• @Justin - help figure out the social calendar and marketing plan 

• @Justin - send us the hotel information so we can update the website  http://www.downtownvalueinn.com/. Update the website week of August 22nd. 

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• @Local team - needs to make sure that Collabora's money goes partly to snacks 

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• @All - target specific user groups to drive registration 

• @All - book our own travel 

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• Need an owner: 

• - prepare a press release for Portland Business Journal (and as many others as possible), send it to them 1 week before. Try to find some similar journals in SF, Seattle, LA, etc. 

• - press release on gnome.org and blasted with social media about 24 hours before the event 

• - we need to figure out how many BoFs we can hold at once and set up a wiki page to get people to sign up

• - update the "About" section for LAS GNOME - DONE by Nuritzi

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• Something to consider: 

• - should we use Etherpad to allow people to sign up for BoFs? 

• - open up BoFs by Monday, August 29th 

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