events/2009-07-25-dev-camp

<entry-title>microformatsDevCamp</entry-title>

One of several microformats events.

• 2009-07-18..19 til 5pm: microformatsDevCamp at San Francisco, CA. The first ever microformatsDevCamp, for authors, designers, publishers, developers, engineers building pages, sites, and tools with microformats http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2888376/

dates

Depending on venue options, we may need to move this to:

• the 16th-17th, or
• just the 17th,
• or just the 18th
• or even a week or more later (further into the future)

• What are other participants/planners thoughts / availability on these dates? --Tantek 05:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

• If we're still in the planning/getting sponsors/finding a venue stages, perhaps we should postpone a week? As far as availability, I'm free most weekends through till the end of August. We should pick a target date & get moving if we want this to happen. --Lauren Scime 17:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC-7)

planners

Want to help organize and plan the first microformatsDevCamp? Sign up!

• Tantek Çelik - planner organizing, venue acquisition
• Chris Messina
• Edward O'Connor
• Rohit Khare - venue acquisition
• Lauren Scime
• ...

planner roles

We need the following roles and responsibilities to be picked up by planners!

• sponsors - for food, t-shirts
• t-shirts (get estimate, make sure to order in time for the event, I think Ben Ward may be working on this - check with him)
• food - coordinate / match up sponsors with meals and make sure the meals arrive and are setup for the attendees
• setup - be in charge of setup the day of, coordinate with venue on setup plenty of time *before* the start of the camp!
• volunteer coordinator - recruit and organize volunteers the day of the event to help out with food, setup
• cleanup - enlist help of volunteers and all devCamp participants to help with cleanup
• intro and kickoff - run the introductory session and help start the microformatsDevCamp with traditional BarCamp intros/3tags and explanation of the BarCamp format (Chris, perhaps you can take this one?)

If you're a planner, please pick up and move one or more of these roles/responsibilities to your name above. Thanks!

volunteers

Like all BarCamps, this event is what it is because of what everyone puts into it. Volunteer to help setup, check people in, clean up, and help people in general have a good time and get things done.

• ...

attendees

Not sure what is going on but want to build stuff with microformats and want help doing it? Sign up!

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to-do

Venue

• Possible venues to look into:
  • Citizen Space on 2nd street
  • Microsoft SF office on Market street - hosted BarCampSanFrancisco - pinged ex-MSFT coordinator -- Rohit 21:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Swedish American Hall on Market street - worked well for Webzine05, WordCamp in the past
  • Adobe / Macromedia on Townsend - worked well for the first iPhoneDevCamp
  • SixApart on 4th street in SOMA - they are big supporters of microformats across their products
  • Google SF - we can ask Termie
  • Automattic - possibly ask Matt or Marianne_M
  • ... add more ideas!

• Available venues - these venues are likely to be available, and we should evaluate capacity, network connection/wifi, # of rooms, equipment/projectors, sleeping facilities etc.
  • ...

• Unavailable - these venues were unavailable for the dates given, but may be available in the future.
  • IFTF - they are previously occupied on Friday 17th, can't find host for Saturday 18th.

• Rejected - these won't work as venues.
  • Yahoo Brickhouse on 3rd street - have hosted many talks on many topics
    • There is no-longer a Yahoo Brickhouse; Yahoo moved out of this building in March. --BenWard 21:14, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Get Satisfaction in South Park - not available for community BarCamp like events anymore. -- Rohit 21:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

T-shirts

• Make design
• Print

Sponsors

• collecting some donations for microformatsDevCamp at events/2009-06-26-microformats-4th-bday
• Figure out rough budget
• Find sponsors for each item

Food and drink

• Lunch Saturday - sponsored by ____________
• Dinner Saturday - sponsored by ____________
• Social Event (Sat. night)? - sponsored by __________
• Breakfast Sunday - sponsored by __________
• Lunch Sunday - sponsored by ___________
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