2013 Conference Fun Stuff Planning

PURPOSE: To foster relationships among and recharge the Apereo community through organized informal activities.

ACTIVITY NOTES

Activities jasig-Sakai 2012:  

  • Baseball, CNN Coca Cola, PubNGrub, run, karaoke

Apereo 2013 Activity Ideas:

BRAINSTORMING NOTES

Apereo 2013 Fun Subcommittee 1/29/13

Purpose/goal

  • Break up a long week
  • Create a break
  • Casual networking/integrate people
  • Foster longer-term relationships
  • * Target new people: help them becoming insiders
  • Help families
  • Conference tends to be a "family reunion"
    •  raise awareness among others to reach out
    • * Dan to create purpose statement in wiki

What needs to be done

  • Need to determine what is in our scope
    • Welcome reception?
  • Reinforce the idea of an Apereo theme / establish conference culture
    • More than the sum of the parts

Timeline

    3/24 program online = events ready?

    3/4 reg open?

TASKS

  • Public vs Private Wiki Page - Need private page
  • Purpose statement Dan Biondi
  • Negotiate costs (varied prices for different budgets)
    • Budget? aim to be net zero (need temporary/up-front funds)
  • Coordinate with "vendors"
  • Schedule
  • Marketing
  • Registration + fee collection (Concentra or Eventbrite)
  • Coordinate event leaders
  • Determine potential Sponsorships of events

Information Gathering Tasks:

NOTES FROM WESTIN SAN DIEGO REGARDING LOCATION

    • Trolley station - 1 block from hotel
    • Petco Park - 20-25 min walk, trolley goes directly to Petco
    • Balboa Park - 1.5 mile walk / 30 min.
    • Gaslamp District, Little Italy & Seaport Village - all ~4 blocks from hotel
    • Fairy station to Coronado Island - 3 blocks from hotel

 TitanPad Sessions:

2013-02-12

2013-02-26

2013-03-05