Woot! Lets get ths party started...
christopher nickerson
What can we do to help?
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Chris Nickerson
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Kyle Creyts
Well, we could really use a few more solid speakers (we have some good ones, but more of them, and more variety of topic wouldn't hurt), and some good community-based press (each of us has our own community presence, but we only touch so many people); we're hammering out the venue situation, and talking with some sponsors (more of those would never hurt either).
With our goal of making the Detroit B-Sides event a destination conference, we'd like to see more involvement by people outside the local area, as well. Having some sort of help rallying the community, and building a better marketing monster encouraging people to travel out, or even volunteer to help remotely (logistics, communication, contact delegation, etc.) would be a huge boon.
We have some ideas for events we'd like to run alongside talks, and are talking with TOOOL and Schuyler Towne about putting on a nice-sized Lock(sport site,picking village, whatever) room with a few different demos above and beyond the typical; there are a few local lock-minded orgs getting involved as well.
Of course, with i3Detroit so close, I'm talking with them about getting some sort of hardware village together, too, and there will probably be a tour of the i3 space at some point during the conference.
I'd like to have a third non-talk room/event track, but the options that come to mind first are logistically daunting, such as CTF; wouldn't be so bad if we could outsource it, or get someone to volunteer to put it together, but so far, nobody I know has jumped at the opportunity. We'd love some good, fun, atypical event suggestions.
That being said, we'd jump at the opportunity to have some greater distribution of involvement, publicity, and sponsorship, and suggestions for cool events; I'm new at the con game, and any sort of input is appreciated. Any holes you think I've failed to cover, too, I'd be happy to hear about.
Kyle Creyts
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