Schedule

1. Keep Super Bowl Sunday free
2. Avoid snow and bitter cold!

Food

1. If you do the preconferences in the main conference space (vs. in spread-out off-site spots), many people will expect breakfast or at least regular coffee/tea/soft-drink breaks throughout the day (so have them?)
2. Is it possible to get a hot breakfast with/instead of continental?
3. Consider Vegetarians
4. Decent lunch menu - not taco or spaghetti :-)
5. Automated Testing

(Note: some attendees really like tacos and/or spaghetti, and think these are excellent lunch choices. YMMV.)

Registration

Use EventBrite--it's worth the admin money for the ease of use, and the reports that can be generated

Suggestions from dchuds talk

• less complacency from overall committee--less burden on local org committee
• Advisory committee
• Programming committee
• do work in the open