0921 Conference call

Owned by Andrew Petro
Last updated: Sept 21, 2007 by William G. Thompson, Jr.Version comment
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When: 1pm Eastern == 10 am Arizona

Duration: 1 hour

Friday September 21st

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Agenda

  • Call meeting to order,
    • solicit volunteer to take minutes and update this page after the call
    • solicit volunteer to create wiki page for next conference call and remind the committee via list of the call when it approaches.
  • Pricing
    • Do we expect $225pp to be sufficient
    • Do we execute on announcing this price
    • How do people pay?
    • Assign action items to execute on this, announce price, update web presence, etc.
  • Web presence and Marketing
    • Assign action item to update JCON space front page
    • Status of MeetUp site
    • Exciting Facebook Group(s)
    • Follow-on excitement on email lists
    • Soliciting Lightning Talks as a next step for keeping buzz going?
  • Unicon training
    • I understand jjmarkow and jlewis have been trying to get a meeting of minds on this. Any progress to report that impacts this committee?
  • Post-conference
    • Venues - myRutgers team, rutgersSakai team, does it matter, is this a Rutgers-internal consideration?
  • Our unconference pre-flight timeline page
    • Review timeline, are we meeting milestones
    • Update timeline

Minutes

  • Order was established
    • Jim's taking notes
    • Jonathan will post the agenda prior to next week's meeting
    • Susan will create a template for agendas
  • Web presence and Marketing
    • We need conference references on our main web pages (ja-sig.org, uportal.org, CAS). Jonathan will come up with the text and Andrew will implement.
    • Jonathan has encouraged Scott to attend and spread the word to the CAS community.
    • There is interest from Sakai for sending someone.
    • Paul will inject news of the UnConference into the Fluid conference.
    • We will hit Sakai, Fluid and others once we have registration set up.
    • Meetup site is looking good.
    • Facebook may have something, but we are not going to introduce it.
    • Andrew will start soliciting lightening talks.
  • Unicon training
    • Jonathan and John are still looking into it. If it works out, JA-SIG would help promote but there would be no official tie between the conference and the training.
    • Facilities would need to be arranged.
  • Administration
    • Meetup only takes PayPal; we will need to figure out a way for folks to accept checks. Maybe JA-SIG should have a PayPal account.
    • Jonathan will talk to Concentra and Jason about invoicing. Need to consider process fees, either by Concentra or PayPal.
  • Post-conference
    • Jason has offered to inquire about Rutgers for post-conference.
    • The $7K quote included 1 small conference room for W-F.
    • Jason and Bill will talk about whether or not to pursue Rutgers space. Actually, it was generally decided that we should just host it at teh hotel.
  • Pricing
    • It would be nice to have no registration fee, but that requires sponsorship (by a host or other source). At this time it seems that we do not have time to hold off on announcing the conference while searching for such a venue. Next time, we would like push on this further.
    • $225, but we need to look at surcharges incurred.
  • Our unconference pre-flight timeline page
    • Time to move forward on promotions. General consensus that we can send email now send another one once registration is set up.

Action items

  • Jonathan post agenda for next meeting
  • Susan will create a template for agendas
  • Jonathan revise text on JCON page and announcement for uportal.org, ja-sig.org and CAS
  • Andrew post announcement on uportal-org and ja-sig.org
  • Jonathan have Scott post announcement on CAS site.
  • Paul will inject news of the UnConference into the Fluid conference.
  • Andrew will start soliciting lightening talks
  • Jonathan continue talks with John about Unicon training
  • Jonathan will talk to Concentra and Jason about invoicing
  • Bill work finalize the contract