LPC attendees are invited to a Kernel Summit event on Tuesday evening at Aura, http://www.auraportland.com/ (I think this is the right place). Acrobats and people flying from the ceiling!
Angela is going to check on allowing the under 21 attendees in until 10:00pm.
Wednesday night is the big LPC event at the Portland Art Museum, http://portlandartmuseum.org/. There are rumors of penguin ice sculptures and a martini luge. Sponsored by X (not sure if I'm supposed to say on list).
Thursday night - no formal event. Tess and others (Jen, Deepak) to work on recommended places to visit, most likely in the form of a scavenger hunt. Perhaps we should encourage people to bring their gps units, for a little LPC geo-caching. :>
Because of the limited budget spouses/partners/so's are not included in the event counts.
Angela/Tess to check into adding a surcharge for so's to attend the evening events at the time of registration.
Spouse/Partner/SO's (from now on referred to as SO's) program
Area on the wiki dedicated to information about meet-ups and informal sightseeing/eating/drinking for SO's.
Deepak to come up with suggestions for places to go things to see.
Tess to send over a few links for childcare (I'll post on website).
Attendees are on their own for lunch. Deepak to come up with a map for where to go in the area. Charts to be posted and links to an online map included on the website and/or wiki.
Student Program is a go. Check the wiki for information on what/why/where. Volunteers to give talks now being accepted, in addition to suggestions for topics, and student type events during the conference – that avoid creating a student ghetto and don't cost a lot of money.
Another organizational meeting planned for sometime in the next two weeks. We'll send out details to the list.
Deepak working on alternative information about Portland (in addition to Randy's submissions), we are putting together a picture gallery to randomly load, updates made as information is available. Sponsor logos to be added sooner rather then later.
Editors are currently , Brandon, Jen, Andy – let us know if anyone else would like to post. This area is essentially for announcements posted to the announce list that also appear on the bottom of the front-page of http://linux-plumbersconf.org.
Opening for invitees April 7, 2008 – notified via email with a link to register. Make sure you update the list on the wiki if there are people you think should receive early registration invites.
Supporting company added for $1000 to next bracket. Supporting companies get a thank-you to our supporting organizations on the website – separate from the logo program. Not aggressively seeking this sponsorship level, it is however, a way to include additional companies supporters who may not be able to afford the big $$ of the sponsorship levels.
I confess that I did not jot down all the dates – would someone please fill in – I think I have the registration dates right – not sure about the program planning deadlines.
We did schedule the next committee meeting for April (May?).