If you missed today's meeting, don't worry. There's plenty of opportunities to get involved in different ways. Here is the link to the transcript [1] and below is our summary of today's discussions: [1] Transcript - http://bit.ly/yAPh4A [2] Our Wiki Planning Page: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSECon_Planning +++ Volunteers +++ Please see the section on volunteers. Just like the openSUSE Conference, no event is successful without community involved. If you see a task missing, please feel free to add it. We need to move fast to get the teams going soon. Note: You can still volunteer even if you don't plan to attend the event. :-) We welcome all input! +++ Calendar +++ At the bottom of the wiki page there is a calendar of milestones. There are several items in there now and soon our committees will add their own milestones to the list. Thanks to Peter Linnell's suggestion, we may be able to add an .ics calendar to the wiki to make it easier for you to keep track of milestones. +++ Target Audience +++ There seems to be a good consensus on making the event focus on a good mixture of talks and HowTo's, enabling our users to get their hands dirty. If you feel you have some input on the targets, we encourage you to join the Program Committee where your input will be best heard. Hackfests can be planned as we get closer to the event. These can be more ad-hoc style where people can gather in the main area or create their own pockets of hackfests. We also discussed making the event bi-lingual. Given that this event will be in Florida and an easy jump for many in Mexico and Central America, we can attract more attendees. This is supported by the several Central Americans who attended today's meeting, and volunteered to be interpreters. +++ Event Name +++ We don't want the name to be confused with our main Conference in EU. We proposed the following names, and we will create a poll on Connect for everyone to vote. - openSUSE Camp - openSUSE Fellowship - openSUSE Forum - openSUSE Huddle - openSUSE LiveCon - openSUSE Summit - openSUSE Symposium Got another name in mind? Add to the wiki page. All suggested names by Friday will be included in the poll. We will announce the poll link on Friday (Feb 3) and the poll will close on Saturday (Feb 11.) +++ Sponsorship +++ SUSE has graciously donated space to us to use the hotel venue after SUSECon. However, there is no guarantee of any financial funds that SUSE will give to the event. We, as a community, need to step up and seek out sponsorships to fund the event as well as travel costs. Several people have already pointed to potential sponsorship leads and we believe that many of you can reach out to your own personal contacts in the world to request sponsorship considerations. We will leave it to the soon-to-be-formed Sponsorship team to develop the guidelines and materials you will need in order to pursue. e.g., formal letters of requests, etc. and coordination so that we're not all bothering the same sponsor. :-) +++ Communication +++ We will send periodic updates to the Project mailing list to keep the community informed of the planning progress. Committees will have their own discussion groups so that the Project list will not be overly spammed. I will also blog frequently whenever possible. (Look for my next blogpost soon!) As with our tradition of openSUSE conference planning, we will still hold a monthly "status update" meeting on IRC (with summaries reported to the mailing list like this one.) These meetings will be held on Saturdays rather than weekday, once a month. The next status meeting will be Saturday, March 3 at 18:00 UTC. +++ What needs to be done quickly +++ - Artwork: Andi Silva and Carlos Ribeiro will collaborate with the openSUSE Artwork team to create posters and flyers. We need this by March 1 so we can begin sending materials to FOSS events. (Many events happening in March and April in the U.S.) - Once we have a name for the event, I have volunteered to work with our admins to set up our website and configure Indico (our CFP management process.) - Committees need to form quickly and begin outlining their procedural plans for their tasks. Please sign up for a task soon. Thanks all and looking forward to a great event! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org