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Note: Anyone involved with the Ohio LinuxFest is welcome to edit this page. If you do not have access please see [[UsingThisWiki]] .
  
== We need to ==
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This is for things we must do next year, that need someone to be assigned to do or be in charge of.
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==Overall: Planning==
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*Build a timeline when things should be done.
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*Proposal form for OLFU tutorials (like cfp)
 +
*Room freeze two weeks out
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**Add  room info to the online schedule
 +
*Med track MUST stick to same schedule
 +
*6 months out (APRIL) decide schedule, including what tracks and at what times.
 +
**including the keynotes
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**when BoFs will be, what rooms
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*Have speakers ready to go by May. 
 +
*6 week out in-person meeting to hash over major last minute crap
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*MUST get splitters in main track rooms (a/v)
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*Want to have both parties (pre-/post-) at ManBearPig
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*Better signs
 +
**Info can be obtained from website
 +
**OLFU and other reg required event signs must state 'For XYZ ONLY'
 +
*ASL interpreters (in progress via Maco/Mel/Carol R/Moose & others). See [[Accessibility]] for notes.
 +
*Dot-org booths: ask for refundable deposit, if they noshow we keep it
  
This is for things we must do next year, that need someone to be assigned to do or be in charge of.
+
==Overall: Staff==
 +
*Better job tracking  -- who is assigned what
 +
*Form for potential volunteers on website
 +
*Add to Volunteers (security people), door checkers (both friday & saturday)
 +
*Need room checkers for Saturday ("I'm sorry, you need to register over at that table, it's free")
 +
*Need a person in charge of  t-shirts
 +
*Need a person in charge of  BoFs
 +
*Need a person in charge of Early Penguins (including helping pick talks, speaker wrangling, talk intros, delegating)
 +
*Need a person to be the dot-org liason (for dot-org tables in the expo)
  
* Room counts - how many people are in a room at the beginning and end of a talk
 
* dot-org liason to work with the Org tables
 
* ASL interpreters (in progress via Maco/Mel/Carol R/Moose & others). See [[Accessibility]] for notes.
 
* volunteer form on website
 
* volunteer meeting onsite
 
* someone needs to 'own' shirts
 
* need plan for setup people during walk-through
 
* need a welcome gathering for people speaking on friday (failed in 2009 due to someone dragging people off to drink)
 
* make sure (volunteered) projectors are on site by Thursday night
 
** make sure to tag them [or their bag] with where they go  (Owned by Vance?)
 
  
* Better signage
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==Overall: Event==
** Let's get going earlier -- get info from website and check from there
 
** OLFU signs must state 'requires OLFU identification'
 
** same for any other 'reg required' (ie zenoss)
 
  
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*Wrist tags for identifying who is in what (OLFU, Zenoss, etc.)
 +
*Make sure that all non-sponsored track speakers get upgraded to supporter
 +
*BoFs need to get advertised earlier
  
== We ought to ==
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==Event:Thursday==
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*Need clear outline of what needs to get done
 +
**Especially things that can be done during walk-through
 +
*Signs for Friday can go up during walk-through
 +
*Welcome meeting for Friday speakers
 +
*ALL volunteered projectors must be onsite by Thu evening
 +
**And labeled with which are going where ('potentially owned by Vance')
  
This is for things we'd like to do but it requires one or more volunteer to handle it.
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==Event: Friday==
 +
*Lunch tickets taken (just like Saturday)
 +
*Ask Friday speakers if they want friday lunch instead of Saturday lunch
 +
*Need to start arranging for laptops for OLFU Linux Basics NOW
 +
*Let's drop class price for LB DRASTICLY and add "and you can buy the laptop"
 +
**need pricde for laptop asap
 +
*Make sure Zenoss tells their people to register for OLF, we shouldn't have to chase them
 +
*Need to follow the pre-show testing checklist, one speaker never pre-checked, turns out his talk wasn't on the laptops.
 +
*Need to make sure talks are fully visible, usable, ok, ahead of time
  
* Day care:  Either someone to wrangle people with the appropriate license to staff a room and/or finding local drop-in day cares that would take kids, and for how much.
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==Event: Saturday==
* Use wristbands for OLFU (and anything else that pays for food) on Friday. Investigate cost.
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*Get raffle stuff ready earlier, ready to go 1st thing in am
 +
**start raffles earlier
 +
**get Caitlin an assistant
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*4th track room needs to be reversed OR properly closed off (from registration area)

Revision as of 22:25, 24 October 2010

Note: Anyone involved with the Ohio LinuxFest is welcome to edit this page. If you do not have access please see UsingThisWiki .

This is for things we must do next year, that need someone to be assigned to do or be in charge of.

Overall: Planning

  • Build a timeline when things should be done.
  • Proposal form for OLFU tutorials (like cfp)
  • Room freeze two weeks out
    • Add room info to the online schedule
  • Med track MUST stick to same schedule
  • 6 months out (APRIL) decide schedule, including what tracks and at what times.
    • including the keynotes
    • when BoFs will be, what rooms
  • Have speakers ready to go by May.
  • 6 week out in-person meeting to hash over major last minute crap
  • MUST get splitters in main track rooms (a/v)
  • Want to have both parties (pre-/post-) at ManBearPig
  • Better signs
    • Info can be obtained from website
    • OLFU and other reg required event signs must state 'For XYZ ONLY'
  • ASL interpreters (in progress via Maco/Mel/Carol R/Moose & others). See Accessibility for notes.
  • Dot-org booths: ask for refundable deposit, if they noshow we keep it

Overall: Staff

  • Better job tracking -- who is assigned what
  • Form for potential volunteers on website
  • Add to Volunteers (security people), door checkers (both friday & saturday)
  • Need room checkers for Saturday ("I'm sorry, you need to register over at that table, it's free")
  • Need a person in charge of t-shirts
  • Need a person in charge of BoFs
  • Need a person in charge of Early Penguins (including helping pick talks, speaker wrangling, talk intros, delegating)
  • Need a person to be the dot-org liason (for dot-org tables in the expo)


Overall: Event

  • Wrist tags for identifying who is in what (OLFU, Zenoss, etc.)
  • Make sure that all non-sponsored track speakers get upgraded to supporter
  • BoFs need to get advertised earlier

Event:Thursday

  • Need clear outline of what needs to get done
    • Especially things that can be done during walk-through
  • Signs for Friday can go up during walk-through
  • Welcome meeting for Friday speakers
  • ALL volunteered projectors must be onsite by Thu evening
    • And labeled with which are going where ('potentially owned by Vance')

Event: Friday

  • Lunch tickets taken (just like Saturday)
  • Ask Friday speakers if they want friday lunch instead of Saturday lunch
  • Need to start arranging for laptops for OLFU Linux Basics NOW
  • Let's drop class price for LB DRASTICLY and add "and you can buy the laptop"
    • need pricde for laptop asap
  • Make sure Zenoss tells their people to register for OLF, we shouldn't have to chase them
  • Need to follow the pre-show testing checklist, one speaker never pre-checked, turns out his talk wasn't on the laptops.
  • Need to make sure talks are fully visible, usable, ok, ahead of time

Event: Saturday

  • Get raffle stuff ready earlier, ready to go 1st thing in am
    • start raffles earlier
    • get Caitlin an assistant
  • 4th track room needs to be reversed OR properly closed off (from registration area)