Reminder: Meeting today at 11am BIC Room 1033

[Heather James]

Good morning, and see you soon!

Denise sent out a draft press release for review.

Did you know you can all edit this now? Please have a look, and add changes or comments. Don't worry we can see revisions, and even revert. Be bold & edit:

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Acdm5QTOw0nOZGM2OW56MmZfMTFkYmpoaHpwbg&hl=en

I am meeting with Janette Gillen before our meeting about the venue & will finalise the date.

Until 11am I will be unreachable by phone because I am at a student induction. I will be late by about 10 mins. Please do start without me.

Agenda:
- Report on speakers, tally who spoke to who, what is the status.
- Feedback on press release & call for speakers
- Final date
- Anything else?

To do ASAP:
- Get up survey for proposal to speak/exhibit at event.
- Work on the site: http://www.northwestconnects.ie/
    - Update with new text & strapline
    - Change the way it looks, add images
- Others?

- Heather

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Heather James <hja...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all!

Next meeting: Tuesday, 8 September, 11-1pm in the BIC. Canteen, meet & get coffee, go to CDI office or meeting room, TBC. 

Agenda for next meeting: Report back on speakers, and make action plan for sponsors, feedback on press release. 

I have a few emails to send today. 

• One will have just a to-do list regarding the speakers/keynote panel. 
• Another will have a brainstorm on text, strapline and press release drafting
• All will be bullet pointed for easy reading like this. 

These are notes from our meeting yesterday. 

Notes from yesterday's meeting. 

This was a good meeting, got a few decisions made. Again, we trod over some old ground, just to pound it out and make sure it was sound. It's sound, we checked. Thanks to Aidan to kicking up the dust to make sure. 

Thanks to all who could attend, and special thanks to Justin to moderated the discussion around streams today. Attendees: Aidan McKenna, Denise Rushe, Johnny Beirne, Ann Louise O'Donovan, Justin Knecht, and me. 

Biggest news: Streams!

Start:  Starting up, space, financing

Share: Experience, skills, war stories, 

Show: Demos, highlight the region, motivational

Final decisions... 

• The event will be free, we will look for sponsorship (no cover charge for food)
• The streams have been decided: Start, Share, Show, (& Connect)
• The schedule will be worked out when we have speakers and talks, to create balance. 
• There is a Northwest focus to the event, we are not trying to compete with Dublin events; we are not aiming for international speakers (e.g., spirit of BarCamp, there is no 'keynote')
• Instead of one keynote speaker, we will have 2 keynote panels to start and finish the conference. Business panel and Agency panel (catchy titles welcome)
• The remaining sessions will include presentations, discussions and lightning talks (6 mins)
• There will be clinics as well as 'networking' activities

• All sessions will be recorded and published online along with presentations. 

Things to work on:

• We started a draft to help Denise prepare a write-up. This will be the bones of a press release. We can also use it to help invite speakers
• We decided Friday was the best day, but we need to confirm this with the venue. We originally asked for Sat/Sun- and this made the parking issue easy. Friday is trickier. We'll confirm this before the next meeting. 
• The site needs to be updated/changed. Do people have images to contribute?
• We need a catchy strapline (in next email)
• We need a sign-up sheet on the site to let people register interest. We have a draft survey.

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[Johnny Beirne]

Apologies Heather and to all. I can't attend today. New addition to family is making all the signs for arrival. Can you believe the maternity ward has no wifi? Chat soon. Johnny

> - One will have just a to-do list regarding the speakers/keynote
> panel.
> - Another will have a brainstorm on text, strapline and press release
> drafting
> - All will be bullet pointed for easy reading like this.

>
> These are notes from our meeting yesterday.
>

> *Notes from yesterday's meeting. *

>
> This was a good meeting, got a few decisions made. Again, we trod over some
> old ground, just to pound it out and make sure it was sound. It's sound, we
> checked. Thanks to Aidan to kicking up the dust to make sure.
>
> Thanks to all who could
> attend, and special thanks to Justin to moderated the discussion around streams today. Attendees: Aidan
> McKenna, Denise Rushe, Johnny Beirne, Ann Louise O'Donovan, Justin Knecht,
> and me.
>
> Biggest news: Streams!
>
> Start: Starting up, space, financing
>
> Share: Experience, skills, war stories,
>
> Show: Demos, highlight the region, motivational
>
>

> *Final decisions... *
>
> - The event will be *free*, we will look for sponsorship (no cover
> charge for food)
> - The streams have been decided: Start, Share, Show, (& Connect)
> - The schedule will be worked out when we have speakers and talks, to
> create balance.
> - There is a Northwest focus to the event, we are not trying to compete

> with Dublin events; we are not aiming for international speakers (e.g.,
> spirit of BarCamp, there is no 'keynote')

> - Instead of one keynote speaker, we will have 2 keynote panels to

> start and finish the conference. Business panel and Agency panel (catchy
> titles welcome)

> - The remaining sessions will include presentations, discussions and
> lightning talks (6 mins)
> - There will be clinics as well as 'networking' activities
> -

>
> All sessions will be recorded and published online along with
> presentations.
>

> *Things to work on:*
>
> - We started a draft to help Denise prepare a write-up. This will be

> the bones of a press release. We can also use it to help invite speakers

> - We decided Friday was the best day, but we need to confirm this with

> the venue. We originally asked for Sat/Sun- and this made the parking issue
> easy. Friday is trickier. We'll confirm this before the next meeting.

> - The site needs to be updated/changed. Do people have images to
> contribute?
> - We need a catchy strapline (in next email)
> - We need a sign-up sheet on the site to let people register interest.
> We have a draft survey<http://www.northwestconnects.ie/2009/07/23/brainstorm-attendee-and-speaker-survey-questions/>
> .
>
> *
> *

[Aidan McKenna]

Hi folks,

 

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it today. Press release looks good.

 

As for John Murray at RTE – Janette Gillian asked if she could speak to Heather re contacting John and inviting him up.

 

Aidan

 

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From: north-wes...@googlegroups.com [mailto:north-wes...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Heather James
Sent: 08 September 2009 08:39
To: north-wes...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Reminder: Meeting today at 11am BIC Room 1033

[Heather]

Met with Janette today. That sounds like a great opportunity.

She needs a detailed plan from us, which we can talk about today.

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From: "Aidan McKenna"
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:37:06 +0100
To: <north-wes...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Reminder: Meeting today at 11am BIC Room 1033