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Naomi Ceder
Oct 21, 2013, 11:22:10 PM10/21/13
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Here are some answers to the questions I was checking on, from Diana Clarke, PyCon Chair. In short, one room divisible into 2, airfare, registration and lodging for a keynote, sponsorship should go through Jesse, and I can edit the web page when we're ready, and Diana and Brian Curtin can post official blog posts for us.
Diana's full responses to my questions are below:
Thursday, April 10th, 2014.
We have room 514A/B reserved for the education summit which has a
capacity of 90 classroom style (3 people/table), 170 theater style, or
120 banquet style (10 people/table). We'll need to let the venue know
how we want it set up.
The room has a divider down the middle (50/50), so it should be
possible to break out into two groups for the afternoon sessions with
minimal effort.
David Wolever etc took some pics of the venue during our last site
visit, if it helps:
https://github.com/PyCon/2014/wiki/Venue
> Second, last year for the summit keynote we offered airfare, PyCon
> registration and a couple of nights lodging, even though the speaker only
> took the airfare. Are those things available to offer a keynote speaker this
> year?
Yes, please go ahead and offer your keynote the same as last year.
Within reason, of course :)
> Finally, who should we run publicity through? We have someone who's willing
> to handle tweeting and social media like that, but we'll also want to update
> the page on the PyCon site and probably get an official blog post in the
> works in the next couple of months. I know we should send any blog material
> through Brian, but I'm not so sure about the web stuff. Last year I just had
> access to edit things - if that works this year, we can do that with our
> publicity person.
Brian and I can publish pycon blogs posts and tweets from the @pycon
account for you. You should be able to edit the PyCon site directly --
please ping me if that's not the case and I'll double check your
settings.
> First, do we at this point know what space will be available for the
> summits? In our group we've talked about the possibility of splitting our
> afternoon session into a few different breakout tracks, but we can't really
> decide that until we know the size/configuration of the room and whether any
> other rooms might be available. I assume that Ewa is the authority on that.
The education summit will be on the first Thursday of PyCon --> summits? In our group we've talked about the possibility of splitting our
> afternoon session into a few different breakout tracks, but we can't really
> decide that until we know the size/configuration of the room and whether any
> other rooms might be available. I assume that Ewa is the authority on that.
Thursday, April 10th, 2014.
We have room 514A/B reserved for the education summit which has a
capacity of 90 classroom style (3 people/table), 170 theater style, or
120 banquet style (10 people/table). We'll need to let the venue know
how we want it set up.
The room has a divider down the middle (50/50), so it should be
possible to break out into two groups for the afternoon sessions with
minimal effort.
David Wolever etc took some pics of the venue during our last site
visit, if it helps:
https://github.com/PyCon/2014/wiki/Venue
> Second, last year for the summit keynote we offered airfare, PyCon
> registration and a couple of nights lodging, even though the speaker only
> took the airfare. Are those things available to offer a keynote speaker this
> year?
Within reason, of course :)
> Third, do we/should we do anything for sponsorship? (I think I already know
> the answer to this, but I'm asking to be sure) Has EdX signed on as a
> sponsor of the summit? If one of us doing the organizing runs across someone
> who might be a good sponsor, what should we do? I know that Jesse will have
> the answer for this one.
Yup, Jesse is the person to ask on the sponsorship front.> the answer to this, but I'm asking to be sure) Has EdX signed on as a
> sponsor of the summit? If one of us doing the organizing runs across someone
> who might be a good sponsor, what should we do? I know that Jesse will have
> the answer for this one.
> Finally, who should we run publicity through? We have someone who's willing
> to handle tweeting and social media like that, but we'll also want to update
> the page on the PyCon site and probably get an official blog post in the
> works in the next couple of months. I know we should send any blog material
> through Brian, but I'm not so sure about the web stuff. Last year I just had
> access to edit things - if that works this year, we can do that with our
> publicity person.
account for you. You should be able to edit the PyCon site directly --
please ping me if that's not the case and I'll double check your
settings.
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