Arbcamp planning session at the lofty loft

Arbcamp is this coming weekend at WCC. Here's notes from a planning session (raw unedited mostly to share)

attendees: @logista @vaguery @ingenexgroup @bkerr @dunrie @hsgidley @edwardvielmetti @3point7ross

How do we tell people what is going to happen? (Both then and now).

Free t-shirts from Retro Duck, East Lansing
Barrel of cocktail monkeys from Archie McPhee to go to ABC
Cash bar at ABC - a little before 6 to setup - event 6-10pm.
"A night at the tap room"

schedule
9am schedule
1230-100 schedule

Pecha Kucha - David Bloom
autotimer for slides

Charlie Penner, Washtenaw Community College

Demo session - speed geeking

What is this for?

Anyone can talk
The people who are here are the best people who can be here
Law of personal mobility

Before hand:
- Office max trip
- Name badges
- Photography
- Video
- Open wifi
- Whiteboards, easels

Bring in lanyards from past conferences

What will the School of Information bring?

Presence at open space meetings - twitter flickr etc etc

arbcamp IRC chat room, web client for IRC so that people can chat.

Post party scanning bee to collect and document artifacts

Recent Changes Camp experience: after the first one, having the artifacts in place from the last one makes planning the next one easier.

Betsy Weber as a connection to bring folks?
Quicken Loans?
Genecodes?
Detroit News

Public registration list? So you can see who has registered.

Outside.in geoaggregation - tag aggregation for arbcamp tag

(Note to self add an arbcamp category)

Facebook strategy for the event - tag peoples names in the middle of sessions.

Ping Ashwin re the group 500 UM Engine student list

Jaffe 1230-930pm

Child care?

Logistics for the books

Cloth bags?

Setup, cleanup?

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Comments

[Betsy Weber]

Just invited about 30 people. Spreading the word... :-)