FSOSS Meeting 2012-10-18

FSOSS Meeting 2012-10-18

Present: Evan, Cathy, Dawn, Rose, Chris, Mike (phone)

Web Changes Needed

• Fixup presentation times

• Remove "Preferred Day" from Presentation Page and enable page

• Adjust and enable the "Schedule" Page

• Get database dumps of: presentations (including title, presenter, description, date/time, room), attendees (all fields), speakers (all fields)

Speakers

• All good

• Mark O'Learo has been contacted re: AV support (and ITS)

• From Mike Hoye: Popcorn people - Mike will work with them incl. Mike H.

Mozilla Sponsorship

• Will provide swag in groups of 200 pieces

• Sponsorship payment - need invoice (Mike Hoye + Rose Saliba)

• Video project - part numbers from Mike Hoye - will be picked up by Dawn Mercer

Speakers' Dinner

• Everything ordered, evite sent, half of responses received

• Rose to send reminder e-mail before invite closes

• One request to bring a guest - Rose to give greenlight

• Invited:

• • All speakers, including students/RAs

• • Planning committee

• • Various seneca C-level and research office staff

• • Faculty and staff volunteers (add)

• • Mike McNamara and Deepak Bajaj (add)

• NB: We need to ensure that Joy has talking-points/briefing for Speakers' Dinner

• Agenda

• • Reception - 5:30

• • Seated and comments - 6:00

• • Dinner served - 6:20

Joy's Comments on Thursday

• Thanks to the speakers

• Talk about partnerships

President's Comments on Friday

• Dawn expects notes next week, will pass on to Chris for reply

Shirts, swag, etc.

• Shirts will arrive Tuesday

• Other swag from Mozilla - Cathy is following up on timing with Mike Hoye

• eSwag - Adafruit 10% discount code - Rose to distribute

• Speakers' gifts - has arrived

Speaker Introduction Kits

• Rose to ask Emily to put these together

Badges + RFID

1. Registration closes Sunday

1. Spreadsheet on Monday (Rose -> Chris)

1. PDFs of Badges on Tuesday (Chris -> Rose)

1. Badges printed (Rose -> Cathy)

1. Badges prepared

1. • RFID Attached

1. • RFID and badge barcode associated

Program Preparation

• Divvying up program descriptions (Rose -> Rose, Dawn, Chris, Cathy)

• Program preparation (Rose)