events/2009-06-26-microformats-4th-bday
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This page is for organizing a party for the upcoming 4th birthday of http://microformats.org. One of several microformats events.
If you'd like to help out, please add your name!
sponsors
Please sign up to sponsor the microformats.org 4th birthday party!
- Object Adjective is a proud sponsor of this event.
planners
I'm donating my time before the event to help plan and make the party happen!
- Tantek Çelik - coordinating
- Rohit Khare - venue, sponsors
- Kevin Marks - venue, sponsors
- Ben Ward - tshirts, sponsors
- contact Dan Cederholm re: current/previous design and vendor used
- Lauren Scime - design / venue / sponsors / publicity?
- party graphics - Main Upcoming graphic, badges/banners to put on your blog, other print collateral such as stickers & possibly buttons??? Other suggestions for graphics/collateral?
- possibly redesign the "Microformats Cheat Sheet" - either for party or at least by MicroformatsDevCamp, also will communicate with venue, sponsors
- Jeremy Anderson - will be assisting Lauren w/ above.
We need:
- a volunteer coordinator. someone to coordinate the volunteers listed below.
- stickers - Lauren is on it - Moo is not able to ship in time for the weekend of the 26th (they won't even leave their warehouse until that date). Might order anyway for MicroformatsDevCamp now, but if we want stickers for the weekend of the 26th we'll have to go with a us printer. There are other options I'm looking in to now but multicolor packets may not be an option - boo!). Will get back with other quotes.
- tshirts - Ben is on it
volunteers
Sign up to be a volunteer! We need volunteers to check people in at the door, take donations, hand out stickers, t-shirts etc.
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donations
Some thoughts on donations:
- take donations at the door, sliding scale $5-$20. $10 or more gets you a t-shirt.
- donations go towards the party and microformatsDevCamp this summer.
attending
I want to show up and help celebrate so I'm signing up here and stating what dates work for me:
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location
There are several possibilities for venue, let's figure out what makes the most sense:
- 111 Minna
- 21st Amendment mezzanine
- capacity: 38 people seated, ~50 standing drinks plus appetizers.
- cost: no charge for user groups
- Varnish
- available for the 20th;
- costs $350/hr with non-profit discount (one hour setup is free)
- Bambuddah Lounge (@ the Pheonix Hotel Tenderloin area) -
- pros: it's cute and trendy, art on the walls, can do all cash bar or buy packages by the hour (I think for totally open bar it was going to be $25/pp but I could call the girl there and see if we could purchase drink tix or something to give to ea. person) - they have Hors D'Voures (spelling?) - most are $3 - $4/pp, definitely can accommodate a full crowd.
- cons: Might be more pricey than some places, never hosted anything there before
- DaDa SF
- Dada is available on the 20th for a private party. Can fit up to 80 people. No rental fee, just a minimum bar tab that we need to arrive at (both by buying drink tix & people buying their own drinks). The guy said it would be about $750 - 1000 bar tab minimum for the night. They would sell us drink tix if we want (any #). Don't serve food but allowed to bring our own - platters from a restaurant or grocery store, have outside caterer.
date
Possible dates (please add opinions/+s/-s as nested list items
- 2009-06-19 Friday
- 2009-06-20 Saturday
- 2009-06-22 Monday
- might be possible to get all of BBar for this night.
- 2009-06-26 Friday
- This would give us ample time to plan and promote. It's getting tight now - decisions need to get made.
- Gallery Lounge is available for this night at 8pm. Would have to bring our own food but no venue rental cost, just a bar minimum tab of 750-1000 for the night.
- 2009-06-27 Saturday
- This would give us ample time to plan and promote. It's getting tight now - decisions need to get made.
Constraints:
- depending on venue and attendee availability.
- time to plan and promote
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Design/Publicity Concepts
- Dan Cederholm (original logo designer) said he likes this logo for the event. Thinks it identifies well with users who are familiar with Microformats (which is our target market for this particular event - people who are supporters of microformats or at least are familiar with it). Jeremy and I think this could be a good spin on the logo that would entice our supporters to come out and support. Dan & I both agree that the real logo should be somewhere on the internet promo buttons though. I still think the print collateral for the event (tshirts & stickers) should have the original logo on it & not this variation. Thoughts?
- 2 new variations:
- both use the 4's logo variation concept in tandem with the real logo (so it's apparent that we're not changing the actual mf logo). These are just sample little embeddable graphics that we could have various sizes of for users to download and put on their websites/blogs. Could make little code snippits to put in websites too that have a downloadable vcalendar when they click.