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2017 Conference Committees

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Code4Lib 2017 Conference Committees
* [mailto:sgritz@lmu.edu Stephanie Gritz] - Volunteer
== Budget/and Sponsorship Planning Committee ==
This group will focus on making sure we are appropriately planning for budgetary issues. This group will work involves working with the LPC to close budget gaps and talking to potential sponsors to find the level that is right for them.
 
[[2017 Budget and Sponsorship Documents|2017 Budget and Sponsorship Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Keynote Committee ==
This group will: gather nominations from Code4Lib community; contact nominees to confirm their willingness and availability; collect bios from the available nominees and add them to the Diebold-o-Tron; support the voting process; work with the community's top nominees to schedule their keynotes; and collaborate with other committees and the community to ensure everything is communicated appropriately and logistical matters are given suitable attention.
 
[[2017 Keynote Documents|2017 Keynote Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Pre-conference Committee ==
This committee plans the pre-conference day. It keeps strong lines of communications open with the Program Committee. It also helps shepherd events on the day itself.
 
[[2017 Pre-conference Documents|2017 Pre-conference Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Program Committee ==
This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. This includes soliciting regular talks. These folks will also manage the flow of the program at the conference -- introducing speakers or soliciting other volunteers to MC. Committee membership will be capped at 10 members.
 
[[2017 Program Documents|2017 Program Documents]]
* [mailto:whitni.watkins@gmail.com Whitni Watkins] - Primary Contact aka Chair (Analog Devices, Boston-ish) -- Twitter: @_whitni
== Scholarship Committee ==
This committee works with funding institutions to arrange the scholarships offered. They solicit submissions and select winners of the scholarship(s). They also work with the winners to plan their travel and arrangements.
 
[[2017 Scholarship Documents|2017 Scholarship Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Childcare Committee ==
This group assess the need for childcare at the conference, organizes childcare options, determines cost, and liaises with parents and chilcare providers
 
[[2017 Childcare Documents|2017 Childcare Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== T-Shirt Committee ==
This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes. This committee is also responsible for helping the local planning committee identify a vendor that will fit within the budget constraints for the conference. User sizes and preferences will be obtained as part of the registration process.
 
[[2017 T-Shirt Documents|2017 T-Shirt Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Onsite Volunteer Committee ==
This committee wrangles <s>tributes</s> people to volunteer for the following duties:
 
[[2017 Onsite Volunteer Documents|2017 Onsite Volunteer Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Volunteer
== Social Activities Committee ==
This committee works closely with the local programming committee in organizing events outside of conference hours. This committee is in charge of organizing the Newcomer Dinner (traditionally held the night before the first day of the main conference) as well as ensuring that there is a variety of different events to cater to different interests (alcoholic/non-alcoholic, carnivore/vegan, mainstream/niche, and everything in between).
 
[[2017 Social Activities Documents|2017 Social Activities Documents]]
Conference goers - The page you are looking for is at [[2017 Social Activities]]
== Streaming Video Committee ==
With the local program committee(as appropriate), organize the streaming and archiving of presentations at the conference. This could include securing A/V equipment, working with the conference venue w/r/t AV needs, choosing streaming and archiving providers, post-production editing and posting of videos, securing speaker releases for recording talks (?), and, of course, actually running the camera during the conference.
 
[[2017 Streaming Video Documents|2017 Streaming Video Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Code4Lib 2017 Host Voting Committee ==
This committee organizes the call for hosts for the next annual code4lib conference as well as the voting process.
 
[[2017 Host Voting Documents|2017 Host Voting Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Volunteer
== Wifi/and Electrical ==
Arguably the most important committee. Coordinates with the local programming committee and the conference venue to ensure that wifi will be functioning for 450 people x 3 to 4 wifi enabled devices per person... as well as ensuring that there is ample power for folks to plug said devices in at the conference. Note that this will largely be handled by the conference management company.
 
[[2017 Wifi and Electrical Documents|2017 Wifi and Electrical Documents]]
* [mailto:cgordon@chillco.com Cary Gordon] - Primary Contact/Local Planning Contact (Southern California)
== Book Giveaway Committee ==
This committee solicits free copies of books from various publishers or free keys/copies of programs from various companies (for example, free private repo from Github or license for oXygen). They also handle the raffle at the conference (with a randomizer to do the drawing of names).
 
[[2017 Book Giveaway Documents|2017 Book Giveaway Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
* Your Name Here - Volunteer
== IRC & and Slack Committee ==
Coordinate with freenode to ensure that the #code4lib IRC & Slack channels can handle the extra traffic during the conference. Also responsible for recruiting and advertising IRC helpers at the conference.
 
[[2017 IRC and Slack Documents|2017 IRC and Slack Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Accessibility Committee ==
Document and address major points of the conference that are not accessible for conference attendees (physical and virtual).
 
[[2017 Accessibility Documents|2017 Accessibility Documents]]
* [mailto:katherly@upenn.edu Katherine Lynch] - Primary Contact aka Chair
== Whatever Committee ==
Not a committee per se. This is a list of people who are willing to help the above committees with various tasks.
 
[[2017 Whatever Documents|2017 Whatever Documents]]
* Your Name Here - Primary Contact aka Chair
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