How To Plan A Code4LibCon
- Apply to be a host
- Get approved by the community
- Find a hotel, negotiate and sign a contract with them
- Invite the community to help with
- Have a timeline
Important Public Resources
- Past calls for host sites: 2010 -
- Code4Lib listserv
- Code4LibCon listserv
- Sponsorship info (public)
Important Private Resources
- Code4LibCon-hostsite listserv
- Budgets from previous years
- Sponsorship info (private)
Shortly before the Conference
- mbklein: Chatted with some super helpful people in #freenode, and sent an official request to ilines@freenode.net once I found out the IP range. Result: "Freenode has raised the IRC connection limit on the IP range served by the attwifi_meeting connection."
At the Conference
Timers
- Sit in the front of the room
- Have several
- Dan Chudnov says the best free timer app for OSX is http://www.apimac.com/timer/
Suggested Timeline
- See C4L2010planning for an example