The budget is owned by Tess Stewart. Please email Tess if you have any questions — tesss@us.ibm.com

Real schedule is on the calendar. Here are some high level items identified originally by the team, working backward from conference …

• conference - we are done

• figure out how many people we need to help at event
• round up volunteers for week of event (i.e. registration, watching doors etc)

• notices for accepted topics/papers/presentations sent out.
• topic champions committed

(understanding that last minute topics can come up - we could plan for this)

• initial conference schedule of talks completed

• CFP closes

• CFP
• potential topic champions contacted

• website complete
• initial set of topics agreed upon

• begin discussing topics in earnest

• all events to be sponsored have venue reserved

• defined events have sponsors

• define events we seek sponsor for