Tonight's chat log

[Eric Skiff]

6:08 tonybgoode: do you happen to know fernando maclen of cowork central? he's my favorite buenos airesean

6:08 Lucas: Thanks Peter

6:09 Jeff @Namnum : of course, Tont, that would be favorite next to Lucas now ;)

6:09 Lucas: I believe I have met Fernando before, they are doing a really good job with cowork

6:09 tonybgoode: excellent

  where's skiff at!

  i'm texting him

  jeff how goes planning for LI BarCamp?

6:12 Jeff @Namnum : stressful ;)

6:13 Peter Laudati: there's a LI barcamp?

  where/when?

6:13 Jeff @Namnum : we're going with SocialMedia Camp, but it's been tougher than i expected to find a location.

6:13 tonybgoode: ha! any progress on venue?

6:14 Jeff @Namnum : tomorrow i have several calls i'm expecting to have returned so i feel hopeful

  Peter yeah, at this point we're doing more of a mini-barcamp set tentatively for April 28th 6-10pm

6:15 tonybgoode: @PChislett you spelled "P-Chizzle" wrong ;-)

6:16 Sara: def, I was confused

6:16 Jeff @Namnum : it's all camp virgins outside of me and my first time in the hot seat so jump in if you can peter.

6:16 Peter Laudati: how many folksinvolved in organizing. I'd be interested in attending.

  although, I admit... I've been venue-challenged in LI myself. The .NET user group wants to do a code camp, but can't find a venue either.

6:18 You are now known as ericskiff

6:18 ericskiff: Ak!

  my alarm didn't go off

6:18 Jeff @Namnum : good crew working on it, some with real cred (certainly more than me). i"ll get the link to the google group to you in a minute

6:18 ericskiff: sorry everyone :)

6:18 Sara: the fort was held, it's all good

6:19 Peter Laudati: thx

6:19 tonybgoode: i have an old friend who was very active in huntington local politics, maybe she has a line on a space

6:19 ericskiff: Okay, so thanks for joining in - from me this is essentially a check in meeting

  to see who's interested in being involved

6:19 Peter Laudati: hofstra has a decent auditorium they've let us use. Although, I'm looking for contacts at SUNY Farmingdale since it's more centrally located on the island.

6:19 tonybgoode: cool

  @eric you know i'm interested! what's on the docket?

6:20 ericskiff: Things to chat about tonight are venue, size, and date

  I've heard back from ITP

  April is a no-go for them

6:20 Jeff @Namnum : dont want to hijack eric's chat I'll respond to LI camp stuff after

6:20 Peter Laudati: @jeff np

6:21 Lucas: @eric I am in too (anyway I can help)

6:21 ericskiff: If it's later than April, they might be up for it

6:21 Peter Laudati: @eric u know i'm in.

6:21 ericskiff: I've also reached out to this guy Peter at MS

  some of you might know him ;)

6:22 tonybgoode: oh yeah, i heard he's a charming and intelligent gentleman

6:22 Peter Laudati: yeah, I heard he was blowing you off?

6:22 Guest3941 is now known as jeff @namnum

6:22 PChislett: I call him "Peter7"

6:22 ericskiff: Peter, I don't want to press you here, so when/if you know more, we're obviously quite interested :)

6:22 Sara: is that a nerd "L"?

6:22 Peter Laudati: did you get my email right before the chat?

6:23 PChislett: or "Peter Phone 7 Suite"

6:23 ericskiff: Ah, got it now

6:23 Peter Laudati: I put in requests for 4/10-11, 17-18 and 5/1-2 w/the facility. Hope to have answers on availability by wed. thurs at the latest.

6:23 ericskiff: Great!

6:23 Peter Laudati: there's a group of folks who want to host a two weekend AgileCamp, so I figure if I can get all three dates... then we can sort out who wants to go when.

  (if you guys like the venue that is)

6:24 ericskiff: Awesome!

  Yes, the MS venue is ideal

  big open space, lots of breakout rooms

  and you just remodeled, right?

6:24 Sara: it's really pretty

6:24 ericskiff: In the event that we don

  't find a date that works, we have one additional fallback

6:25 Peter Laudati: yup. remodel is what kept us from offering to host last year.

  just opened in december.

6:25 tonybgoode: and great central location

6:25 Peter Laudati: @sara in a wheel of fortune sort of way w/those wall cubes!

6:25 ericskiff: We can do the event here at drop.io - one huge space as well as 3 smaller breakout rooms which can hold 25 people each

  Which would be a much smaller event

6:25 tonybgoode: okay

  yeah

6:25 msg: do u think we could fit everyone at dropio?

6:26 ericskiff: If we did it here, I'd say cap at 125 or so

6:26 tonybgoode: if MSFT falls through i'd vote to wait till end of may and go back to ITP

6:26 ericskiff: That's also definitely an optoin

  the problem for me is that I can't do late may

  I've got a baby coming :)

6:26 tonybgoode: right

  the baby can come to barcamp

6:27 ericskiff: Lol

6:27 Peter Laudati: oh come on now... what's a dirty diaper or two at barcamp?!

6:27 ericskiff: In truth though, I'll be out of commision for May/June from a planning perspective

6:27 Peter Laudati: of course.

6:27 jeff @namnum : Congrats btw Eric!

6:27 ericskiff: Thanks :)

6:28 Guest721 is now known as sarahcooley

6:28 sarahcooley: hey guys, sorry I'm late

6:28 ericskiff: No worries :) Hi Sarah

  I was late as well

6:28 sarahcooley: hi

6:28 ericskiff: The quick catchup is we're working on venue

  ITP is out for the short term, but interested later

  Peter will get back to us on MS hopefully this week, which would be awesome

6:29 sarahcooley: ok

6:29 ericskiff: and we have a fallback option of doing smaller events (maybe closer together time-wise) here at dropio, but we'd max out at around 125 people here, which is quite small

  So, for planning purposes, let

  go with a working assumption that one of those first two weekends would work at MS

  That okay with you Peter?

6:30 Peter Laudati: that's fine by me.

6:30 ericskiff: And if it doesn't, any work we do now will be shifted to a later date either at ITP or MS

  Great - that cool with everyone else?

6:30 sarahcooley: sounds good

6:31 tonybgoode: good

6:31 jeff @namnum : good

6:31 ericskiff: Cool :) So, as many of you know, I'm a proponent of simple barcamps

6:31 tonybgoode: and we can safely assume all these venues will be free of charge, yes?

  pending some small charges for cleanup and incidentals

6:31 Peter Laudati: ms would be free of charge.

  correect. clean up charges TBD, but probably would be covered.

6:31 ericskiff: great - ITP we paid some small incidental feels, dropio would be free

  feels = fees

6:32 PChislett: good...when will we know that the date's secured?

6:32 ericskiff: For Poly, we paid a bit more

6:32 Peter Laudati: wed or thurs

6:32 ericskiff: but it was for overnight security, etc

6:32 PChislett: sweet

6:32 A comment was added to the note 'Chat client instructions'

6:32 ericskiff: So, what do we absolutely need to get the event done

6:32 Peter Laudati: is overnight on the table? desired?

6:33 ericskiff: Ah, great question

  Personally, I'm not pushing hard for the overnight this year

6:33 sarahcooley: i feel like since last time no one really stayed for the overnight, is it really a big draw?

6:33 ericskiff: It's been fairly underattended in the past

6:33 Peter Laudati: the one year we hosted it at ms in the past... about 40 stayed. but less at poly, and then none last year

6:34 sarahcooley: I think that having tha ability to stay late night was fun, but overnight not really

6:34 ericskiff: I'd say as long as there is some sort of afterhours plan

6:34 sarahcooley: the*

6:34 ericskiff: exactly

6:34 Peter Laudati: overnight SHOULD be okay... although, I'd have to reconfirm.

  late night is no probl at all.

6:34 tonybgoode: i'm thinking it'd be nice if we put it out there that any of these things can happen-- if someone steps up and owns it.

6:34 Peter Laudati: long as I'm there in the space.

6:34 tonybgoode: that goes for overnight, afterparty, and whatever online presence we might want to have outside of the typical stuff

6:34 Peter Laudati: can u say karoake?

6:35 tonybgoode: :-)

6:35 ericskiff: Absolutely - anything that people want to put together, I'm 100% in support of!

  So, core stuff we need - people (meaning, some pre-event promotions), venue (working on it)

  What else do people consider absolutely necessary

  I'd say sponsors

6:36 sarahcooley: yea I was going to say sponsors

6:36 ericskiff: but likely not many, and I'm happy to head that charge up again this year

6:36 Peter Laudati: sponsor invite & terms

  wiki page

6:37 ericskiff: Getting the wiki page cleaned up and updated would be great

6:37 Peter Laudati: would we use the same one or a new one?

6:37 ericskiff: http://barcamp.org/BarCampNYC5

6:37 Peter Laudati: anyone have a bc5 domain? or is there a generica barcampnyc domain? (i forget)

6:38 ericskiff: I'd like to make the wiki the central point for this event

6:38 Peter Laudati: oh good... wiki is in place already. perfect

6:38 ericskiff: it's worked really well for us in the past, and we can link out to twitter, blogs, etc from there

6:38 Peter Laudati: yeah... agreed. although, IIRC there was a NYC specific domain that just pointed to the wiki

6:38 ericskiff: And, you know, it's easy :)

6:39 tonybgoode: @Peter Laudati: P-chizzle has barcampnyc.org, which we've been using as the main clearinghouse and for subdomains

6:39 Peter Laudati: @chislett, didn't u handle that?

6:39 ericskiff: @PChislett - did you have the .org domain?

  ya

6:39 Peter Laudati: great

6:39 tonybgoode: the way it worked last year was that the root went to the wiki page eric linked above

  and then the subdomains were used for everything else

6:39 PChislett: y=.org domain

6:40 The note 'Essentials for BarCampNYC5' was added

6:40 ericskiff: Okay, who wants to step up and be promotions czar

  that person will send out emails to relevant lists, keep the wiki updated, etc

  ::crickets::

  lol

  okay, anyone at least want to be on that team?

6:42 Peter Laudati: i'll take venue issues naturally.

6:42 tonybgoode: come on, is nobody on this list laid off with lots of time on their hands??

6:42 ericskiff: Lol

6:42 jeff @namnum : I'll help on the promo team, cant head it up tho

6:42 Peter Laudati: @tonybgoode dude, that is soooo 2009!

6:43 ericskiff: Seriously, is it me, or are all our friends overemployed lately :)

  Jeff, thx!

  Pls send me a quick email, and I'll get in touch with you about that

6:43 sarahcooley: I can help with promo team

6:43 ericskiff: It's actually pretty easy, just need to write up a few emails

  awesome

6:43 Peter Laudati: i volunteer myself and chislett to help w/food, etc.

6:44 tonybgoode: woohoo, team peter^2 back in full effect!

6:44 ericskiff: Hehe

  Nice.

  For food, that's definitely one that I'm happy to have other people handle

6:44 PChislett: WTF "7" ru cazey mon

6:44 ericskiff: I can reasonably say that we'll have $500 to work with off the bay

  bat

  And historically, I've been able to pull in $1500+ with sponsorship emails, although things are definitely tighter this year

6:45 Peter Laudati: left over from last year?

6:45 jeff @namnum : eric need your email or email me barca...@namnum.biz

6:45 ericskiff: jeff, I'm at glitc...@gmail.com :)

6:45 Peter Laudati: MS is good for $500

6:45 sarahcooley: well would it be fair to say that this will be a smaller barcamp than last year?

6:46 ericskiff: If we get MS, I don't know if it technically needs to be smaller

6:46 sarahcooley: ok

6:46 ericskiff: I'm just aiming to keep it really simple

6:46 sarahcooley: alright, sounds good

6:46 ericskiff: In particular, things like food, shirts, websites, etc

6:46 tonybgoode: I believe MS would put us in the territory of "roughly the same"

6:46 Peter Laudati: at MS... we could handle up to 300 ppl comfortably across multiple rooms.

6:46 ericskiff: If someone wants to make them happen, that's fantastic

6:46 sarahcooley: ok

6:47 tonybgoode: ok, well we definitely need shirts

6:47 ericskiff: Hahaha

6:47 tonybgoode: i need to talk to josh anyway so i'll at least take responsibility for pinging him

6:47 jeff @namnum : yes shirts!

6:47 tonybgoode: does anybody want to jump on a design?

  for the logo etc?

6:47 ericskiff: Okay :) I'll back off on that and let you guys run with it

  I'm a -1 on shirts this year, but only because of logistics / cost

6:48 Lucas: I can have my teams design a couple of logo for shirts

6:48 tonybgoode: eric, there will be shirts, i will thumb wrestle you over this ;-)

6:48 Peter Laudati: -1 on shirst unless there's money in the bank. if money, then +1 of course

6:48 tonybgoode: @lucas sweet!

6:48 ericskiff: Ya, what's the leftover in the bank?

6:48 sarahcooley: lol I vote for the thumb wrestle

6:49 ericskiff: Lucas, if you can take care of design, that would be fantastic

  I love Josh, but keeping it within the core team here would be awesome

  Anyone know what the $ we have leftover if any was?

  Lol, the alarm for this chat just went off

  I guess somehow I set it for seven

  that explains that

  Moving down the list of core things

6:51 Lucas: we'll have designs made to choose from (any special tagline for this year?)

6:51 ericskiff: anyone want to put their name in for being sponsorship helper?

  I have great docs/lists of people we can contact from previous years, just need help adding new businesses and following up when people bite

6:52 tonybgoode: i will copy the docs and refresh them for BCNYC5 if somebody wants to volunteer to look thru them and start making first contacts

6:52 jeff @namnum : Eric, if you need help on follow up, let me know. I'm happy to make a call.

6:52 PChislett: @ericskiff: i'm locked out of https://drop.io/barcampnyc4 could you regain access for us?

6:52 tonybgoode: @lucas typically no tagline, just BarCampNYC5 with some sort of imagery that incorporates the BC flame

6:53 ericskiff: Did we have a drop.io site last year, I forget

6:53 sarahcooley: yes

6:53 ericskiff: @lucas, what tony just said

6:53 Peter Laudati: hey... guys, I need to drop off. Another call to prepare for in 5 mins. I'll keep you all posted on the group about the MS venue. Hope to see you all soon.

6:53 ericskiff: okay, checking into the drop

  Thanks for stopping in, and for working on the venue Peter! :)

6:53 Sara: bye, Peter

6:53 Peter Laudati: ur welcome. bye everyone

6:54 jeff @namnum : Peter. email later on LI?

6:54 tonybgoode: just duplicated BCNYC4 finances spreadsheet, and copied last year's collaborators. let me know if you want in.

6:55 ericskiff: Pls copy me on that :)

6:55 tonybgoode: any of you. especially new peeps.

  @eric you're already in

6:55 jeff @namnum : Tony that would be helpful to me for the LI event, would you mind?

6:55 msg: re: t-shirt designs let me know if we should have the aviary community take it for a spiin?

6:55 tonybgoode: sure hit me with an email

6:56 jeff @namnum : ok

6:56 tonybgoode: @msg i was thinking exactly that actually

6:56 sarahcooley: @msg I think that would be awesome

6:56 ericskiff: okay, the search is running for that drop

6:56 tonybgoode: @msg though it may add to overhead in terms of decisionmaking... would you be game for taking point on that?

6:57 msg: yeah im game

  what theme are we shooting for?

6:58 ericskiff: Hmm - "sharing knowledge" would be my vote, in abstract

6:58 Sara: guys - I have to head out. Def include me on emails and things, I'm up for little tasks and manpower closer to the event.

6:59 ericskiff: Thanks Sara - you're on the bcnyc5 email list, right?

6:59 Sara: yes, I am

7:00 ericskiff: great :)

7:00 msg: i gotta go but re: themes lets add to wiki and then ill set something up

  ttyl

7:02 tonybgoode: ok i gotta check out too, can whoever's last out lock up the door, turn off the lights, and copy this chat log to the google group? :)

7:02 ericskiff: Okay, thanks guys!

  Just checked on that drop

  we've either got the wrong name, or it's expired

  I'll look at last years emails and see if we can dig it up

7:02 jeff @namnum : Gotta go too. Good night all,

7:02 ericskiff: g'night everyone!

  Thanks, and I'll send followup emails

7:03 Jonathan Berger is now known as jonathanpberger

7:03 ericskiff: Hi Jon

[Peter Laudati]

Hi all,

Okay...  4/10-11 is out for the MS office. I'm on standby to tentatively confirm 4/17-18.  Any objections to that date before I pull the trigger on it?   Next available fall back is 5/1-2.

-Peter

[Eric Skiff]

4/17+ 18 is definitely better for me :)
Thanks Peter!
-E

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[Peter Laudati]

Ok.  The facility folks didn't get back to me today, so I will confirm with them on Monday morning.

-Peter

[Peter Laudati]

Okay...  great news!  We are booked... locked & loaded for April 17-18th for the BarCamp NYC 5 in the Microsoft offices!   

Let's let the next step in the planning process begin.  Shall we hold an in person planning meeting?  Or will chat suffice?

[Eric Skiff]

Awesome!!! Thanks Peter! :)

I'm booked solid this week with a work crunch and getting ready to move NYC Resistor this weekend - anyone want to help? We're moving on the 27th ;) http://wiki.nycresistor.com/wiki/TheBigMove#Timeline

I'd be up for a chat anytime this week, or meeting in person next week, or both.
What's everyone feel like doing? Chat sooner, or get together next week? How's Wednesday the 3rd?

-E

[namnum]

Tough week for me too, end of month.
Next Wed sounds good.

On Feb 22, 6:45 pm, Eric Skiff <glitchc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome!!! Thanks Peter! :)
>
> I'm booked solid this week with a work crunch and getting ready to move NYC

> Resistor this weekend - anyone want to help? We're moving on the 27th ;)http://wiki.nycresistor.com/wiki/TheBigMove#Timeline

>
> I'd be up for a chat anytime this week, or meeting in person next week, or
> both.
> What's everyone feel like doing? Chat sooner, or get together next week?
> How's Wednesday the 3rd?
>
> -E
>

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Peter Laudati <jrzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay...  great news!  We are booked... locked & loaded for April 17-18th
> > for the BarCamp NYC 5 in the Microsoft offices!
>
> > Let's let the next step in the planning process begin.  Shall we hold an in
> > person planning meeting?  Or will chat suffice?
>

> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Peter Laudati <jrzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Ok.  The facility folks didn't get back to me today, so I will confirm
> >> with them on Monday morning.
> >> -Peter
>

> >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Eric Skiff <glitchc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> 4/17+ 18 is definitely better for me :)
> >>> Thanks Peter!
> >>> -E
>

> >>>  On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Peter Laudati <jrzy...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>>> Hi all,
>
> >>>> Okay...  4/10-11 is out for the MS office. I'm on standby to tentatively
> >>>> confirm 4/17-18.  Any objections to that date before I pull the trigger on
> >>>> it?   Next available fall back is 5/1-2.
> >>>> -Peter
>

> >>>>> 6:32 A comment was added to the note 'Chat client instructions<http://drop.io/barcampnyc5/asset/chat-client-instructions>

> >>>>> '
> >>>>> 6:32 ericskiff: So, what do we absolutely need to get the event done
> >>>>> 6:32 Peter Laudati: is overnight on the table? desired?
> >>>>> 6:33 ericskiff: Ah, great question
> >>>>>   Personally, I'm not pushing hard for the overnight this year
> >>>>> 6:33 sarahcooley: i feel like since last time no one really stayed for
> >>>>> the overnight, is it really a big draw?
> >>>>> 6:33 ericskiff: It's been fairly underattended in the past
> >>>>> 6:33 Peter Laudati: the one year we hosted it at ms in the past...
> >>>>> about 40 stayed. but less at poly, and then none last year
> >>>>> 6:34 sarahcooley: I think that having tha ability to stay late night
> >>>>> was fun, but overnight not really
> >>>>> 6:34 ericskiff: I'd say as long as there is some sort of afterhours
> >>>>> plan
> >>>>> 6:34 sarahcooley: the*
> >>>>> 6:34 ericskiff: exactly
>

> ...
>
> read more »

[Tony Bacigalupo]

Peter you rock!!! Eric, congrats on the move!

What will be on our agenda now that we have a venue and date? 

Given that, we may decide to have a warmup chat this week to get things moving. Under two months to go!

I'm free Weds; where and when?

T

[Peter Laudati]

I'm in the city today if anyone's free to meet up.  Wed is out (my son's 1st Pinewood Derby race!).  I could make it back up Thursday too.

[mgalpert]

crap.
im not going to be in town AGAIN.
i dont mind helping out either way.

any ideas for theme for this year?

~msg

On Feb 22, 6:40 pm, Peter Laudati <jrzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay...  great news!  We are booked... locked & loaded for April 17-18th for
> the BarCamp NYC 5 in the Microsoft offices!
>
> Let's let the next step in the planning process begin.  Shall we hold an in
> person planning meeting?  Or will chat suffice?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Peter Laudati <jrzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok.  The facility folks didn't get back to me today, so I will confirm with
> > them on Monday morning.
> > -Peter
>

> > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Eric Skiff <glitchc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> 4/17+ 18 is definitely better for me :)
> >> Thanks Peter!
> >> -E
>

> >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Peter Laudati <jrzy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Hi all,
>
> >>> Okay...  4/10-11 is out for the MS office. I'm on standby to tentatively
> >>> confirm 4/17-18.  Any objections to that date before I pull the trigger on
> >>> it?   Next available fall back is 5/1-2.
> >>> -Peter
>

> >>>> 6:32 A comment was added to the note 'Chat client instructions<http://drop.io/barcampnyc5/asset/chat-client-instructions>

> ...
>
> read more »

[Christopher Ricca]

I'll start it off: 

"things you shouldn't do around flammable materials"

or

"The future: Yes or No?"

[Tony Bacigalupo]

Less talk, more action :-)

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:03 PM, mgalpert <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Giuseppe Turitto]

Maybe the theme could be around more Social Aspects; With all this
Natural Disaster happening recently and the Social implications that
they bring. How Technology can help on this.

Just an Idea.

Giuseppe

[Giuseppe Turitto]

When it will be the next Chat (or meeting), will like to see how I can help.

Giuseppe