Meeting notes 26 August

[Heather James]

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.

[Brian Mulligan]

Heather,

you have probably considered this already, but I would suggest that presentations should follow the 'elevator pitch' idea that if you can't make your presentation quickly, you're not communicating properly.  Keep presentation to 5 min startup - 10 minute presentation and 5 minutes questions (20-25 minute max)

Regards,

Brian

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2009/8/26 Heather James <hja...@gmail.com>

[Heather]

Justin asked me about the date... Responding here in case it's unclear for others also.

I noted below we decided Friday is better. However I need to check this with Janette Gillen, manager of the BIC. She is away until 1st Sept. I have emailed her, and I'll follow up before our meeting.

The concern for Fridays is the use of the BIC by staff, and the parking availability.

Originally we had asked for sat/sun, so just need to check this change.

- Heather

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From: Heather James
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:11:29 +0100
To: <north-wes...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Meeting notes 26 August

[Denise Rushe]

Hi Everyone, 

I should have press release online by Monday and would love lots of feedback!

I was just speaking to Oonagh Monaghan from the Sligo Women in Business Network and she is really interested in the conference. She is unable to speak on the Friday date but suggested Amanda,  who also runs the network with her, to speak.

Their next meeting is late september, and Oonagh said to pass on our information to her so she can tell the network.

Just a note- could everyone gather email addresses for who they are contacting so when the press release/pitch is ready I can send some info their way.

Denise

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