2013-03-07 Planning Committee Call
Planning Committee
March 7, 2013
Calliflower: http://bit.ly/VnG2LM
Wiki: https://wiki.jasig.org/x/UYdPAw
Attendees (Please add your name below)
Laura McCord, UC-Merced
Matt Hertzog, Methodist College
Jim Helwig, UW-Madison
Eric Goldman, Unicon
Dan Biondi, Sac State
Reba-Anna Lee- Marist College
Patty Gertz
Narasi (UFL)
Ian Dolphin
Deb Smith
Web Presence
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/YINmAw
https://sites.google.com/a/apereo.or.apereo.org
http://www.apereo.org/home/2013-apereo-foundation-conference
What needs to be done before we go live with it?
Add Longsite as a gold level sponsor (John)
Add a way to get back to apereo.org
Social Events page will be populated (by Sat 3/9/13)
Registration link will added
Have the new site and registration app ready for review mid week
Go live 3/15
What needs to be done shortly thereafter?
Add appropriate references on sakaiproject.org and jasig.org
Michelle will add registration fee information to http://www.apereo.org/home/2013-apereo-foundation-conference
John will look into the possibility of having the new conference.apereo.org URL redirect to that page
Add twitter feed to conference home page
Marketing
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/t4NmAw
No budget at this time for paid marketing (e.g., ads)
Ask board members to promote an appropriate lists
Ask our contacts in California schools to promote using their contacts/groups/lists
I'll [Dan] look into appropriate lists in the California State University system
Some one will need to look into the University of California system
Private universities?
We will leave off any mention of group discounts; any inquiries will be referred to Ian
Are we listed on the EDUCAUSE events schedule? Patty will ensure we are there.
Social Media (Laura McCord)
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/vINmAw
Laura met with Mathieu to talk about last year's efforts
Can we leverage Google hangouts?
There are capabilities to tie this into YouTube streaming
John, Laura and Narasi will look into this
Looking at Apereo foundation google page
We are looking into having a large monitor near the registration area that displays the twitter feed and ad hoc meeting schedule
Will look at opportunities for leveraging foursquare (https://foursquare.com/)
Logistics (Jenn, Deb)
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/tYNmAw
Still working on identifying what the needs are for groups that want to meet before/after the conference - Patty will work on estimates
Collaboration Opportunities
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/uoNmAw
Mobile App (Eric Goldman & John Lewis)
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/uINmAw
Concerns about state of uMobile and time needed for fully baked clients
Can use Mobile Web piece only instead
Video Transmission/Archiving
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/uYNmAw
Fun Stuff (Sadie Hastings, Dan Biondi, Eric Goldman)
https://sites.google.com/a/apereo.org/conference/events
https://wiki.jasig.org/x/zYJmAw
Tuesday PM offerings
Dine Around
Gaslamp Quarter Walking Tour
Wine Bar
Gondola Cruise
Petco Park Tour
Wednesday offerings
Karaoke
Show Your Colors!
We'll make sure any language around these protects Apereo, perhaps adding "at your own risk" language
Other Updates
Chat log
13:00 Dan Biondi: hi neal
13:03 Reba-Anna: Hoi All
13:03 Reba-Anna: I meant Hi!
13:03 Matt Hertzog: thought it was the Hawaiin version of hi ;-)
13:17 Reba-Anna: LOL
13:40 Reba-Anna: like a tweet wall?
13:41 Reba-Anna: I have been to concerts that project the computer screen onto a white wall and the tweet feeds are seen there
13:41 Reba-Anna: +1 on foursquare!
13:48 Ian Dolphin: Folks are going to use 4sq anyway - we may as well try to work out some advantage from it for the event
13:55 Jenn cummings: do we want to consider setting a deadline for people to sign up for social activities? prompt people to decide sooner than later?
14:01 Debbie: Patty can you stay on the phone for a minute afterward
14:02 Jenn cummings: Gotta run to google hangout. bye all!