Speaker dinner
Kristin and Tess want to reserve all of Merriweather's patio, but that means cost may go up for speaker dinner. They were worried about transportation to dinner place, since it is six blocks from street car. Kristin thought they might need to buy a cab for people; Sarah suggested hiring pedicabs (bicycle powered two-person cabs) for taking people from the street car stop to Merriweather's. AR for Tess - look into pedicab companies
Guest package
AR for Kristin - how is deepak's list of things to do?
AR for Tess - come up with a guest/SO package
AR for Brandon - do a wiki for guests to connect and meetup
Budget and Travel funding
AR for Brandon - Tess wants a private area for budget/logistics
Tess removed costs associated with not having next year's conference in another city
AR for Sarah - get a detailed quote from the backspace event coordinator
there is still $10,000 in the LPC budget for travel
All travel funding comes through LPC, if we don't have money, we'll ask for help from the Linux Foundation travel fund. The LF people are being hammered for requests right now, so people should come to LPC first.
A lot of speakers are looking for travel funding. Tess says look for good talks, worry about funding later.
LPC is funding a stay at university place, the people have to make up the difference if they want to stay elsewhere. LPC copied linux foundation proceedure for paying travel.
Misc
Put the graphics designer on the thank you list
lwn interview is coming out this week or next week (Val interviewed Kristin)
Linus agreed to do a git tutorial at LPC. He doesn't want us to make a big deal out of it, and we can't announce it until we announce acceptance of other speakers talks.
AR for Sri - call Barak
AR Tess will post classroom sizes
AV/Wireless update
Tess is worried about AV prices. Sri will meet with Populi recording tomorrow. AR Sri - Tess needs a final bid on power supplies.
Registration
AR Kristin needs to transfer people who registered on the Linux Foundation System to the eventbrite system. Eventbrite currently has 85 people registered, and 12 separate people are registered in the Linux Foundation system. 66 of those people on eventbrite are paid attendees, the rest are free passes used by sponsors. Tess says we only need 100 people to register to break even (although there will be no seed money for next year and some of the “frosting” will go away from our event).
Should we up the registration fee after a certain date?
Kernel summit registration opened yesterday. AR for Kristin to talk to LF people - the registration page for kernel summit should indicate that LPC is right after Kernel Summit.
Blogging and marketing
kernel planet, planet pdx - should we have a planet lpc? Have people update with what they're doing for LPC.
AR for Brandon and Kees - figure out hash-tags.org and create a #lpc on twitter
There will be times when no one posts, and then everyone posts. We need someone to remind people to post. AR for Val - monitor blogs and remind people when there's a lull in blog traffic
What about other social networking sites? We really need a social network person - Zach, Scott, etc. - Sri might be able to handle it, since he's on many of the sites.
Brandon will email Kees - AR for Kees to help Sri with social networking outreach (especially twitter)
AR for Val to send email to Silicon florist - he might want to cover us
AR for Sarah to refind the portland techie blog aggregator site and get planet LPC on it.
MC Runner update
Andy sent email to all MCs, but people like keithp and gregkh are really busy with OLS and OSCON right now.
Planning for next year
Student day
AR for Sarah - contact Renee to see if we can contact CS department students. Contact ACM
AR for Bart - contact U of W
AR for Brandon - contact OSU Linux users group (OSLUG) Ask them what type of talks they would like to see at the student day. More technical or career/community aspects? What technical subjects are they interested in? How much development have they already done?
career panel
AV for student day
AR for Sarah - email Tess with the positions we need filled, then bug Bart for students
Need a volunteer for AV
Sri also needs volunteers for the main conference - can Inaky volunteer?
