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

Freenode IRC connection

• 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