C4L2010planning: wishlist

Planning for Code4Lib 2010 in Asheville, NC

Critical things that must work

• Internet access (i.e. wifi) with good bandwidth
• Internet access (i.e. wifi) with good bandwidth
• Internet access (i.e. wifi) with good bandwidth
• Food must accommodate special dietary needs

Everything else, including quality of hotel rooms, is secondary.

Internet

• Host local mirror of #code4lib IRC - http://www.tummy.com/Community/Articles/pycon2007-network/
• Rent G3 line for dedicated access for speakers (?)
• Have a contingency aircard so at least speakers can go online (?)
• Hook up to UNCA's Internet connection from the hotel (?)

Social Activities

• Signup sheet for nightly dinner activities
• code4lib brew for the hospitality suite
• code4lib revue?

Sponsorship

• Potential sponsor and contact list

Choosing speakers

• Ask people to write why they nominated keynote speakers
• Can we get more gender diversity of keynote & 20 minute talks? (Is this important to us?)
• Do we want to limit the number of speakers from any one organization?
• Do we want categories when voting?
• Voting needs 2 categories: geekiness and vote preference. (In 2008 the sum of these was the total IIRC)

Choosing 2011 venue

• Announce the process early in the conference so that people can get set up with logins
• Reminder during the last day of voting

Integration with IRC, twitter stream, and other backstreams

• Is IRC the 'backchannel'? OR is the conference the once-yearly 'frontchannel'?
• Consider suggestions from http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-presentations/ regarding integration with backchannel.
  • e.g. offer speakers help monitoring the channel ('an ombudsman for the audience')
• Advice from dev8 via BenO:
  • @davetaz setup projection/feed of the twittered #dev8d tags + @andymcg set up a netvibe channel to follow the tags elsewhere @jschneider Twitter feed screen in bkgd of these photos: http://is.gd/jOwW http://is.gd/jOxd & see @jvvw review of event: http://is.gd/jOxy
• Make it easier for people to find IRC
  • "code4lib station" with signup info and help?
• Not everybody multistreams. Would multiple rooms help (reduce volume)? Or...?
• Publish backchannel, e.g. http://reallywow.com/c4l09/logslice/20090225/14:00-14:20

Video

• Sync the timecode in the video with the IRC logs
• 3rd camera for IRC?

Lightning Talks Do's and Don'ts

• Have an MC/cat herder lined up in advance
• Don't have one entity do two LTs back to back
• Ask those who've already spoken to "go last" (e.g. only present if there's time)-- "share the air"
• Create a LT do's and dont's page in the conference webspace
  • link to existing LT advice
• 2 projectors, minimum. 3 if possible (3rd to display backchannels)
• make transitions to LT during coffeebreak or other downtime

List of Interesting things in Asheville, for future reference

see also Google Map, proposal

• The Chocolate Fetish
• Woolworth Gallery (collaborative arts and crafts sale space in an old Woolworth's, with intact, functional lunch bar and a Swedish furniture shop in the basement)