Meeting minutes 2019-06-03 10:00 UTC

Attending

  • Kat
  • Kristi
  • Vivia
  • Stathis
  • Tom

Old action items

  • ACTION: Kristi working on ideas for things to do in Thessaloniki (based on bid document) - Done

  • ACTION: Tom/Kat need to ensure that additional fields are in openevent - av can help us out, Tom to coordinate with av

  • ACTION: Tom/Kat to discuss alternatives for openevent as custom fields can't be added - no updates

  • ACTION: Kat and Caroline to work together on the badge design - Pending on a rough event outline

  • ACTION: Stathis to check about accommodation for Keynote speaker (where he'd like to stay, at a hotel or with everyone else) - prefers hotel - Stathis to confirm booking and share details with the speaker

  • ACTION: Stathis, Vivia: University contract - no update, Vivia followed up, will call/talk to a human

  • ACTION: Kat and Britt put together a plan for a photo policy and implementation of it - no update (no Britt in call)

  • ACTION: Kat follow up on privacy concerns over public speaker list on openevent - no updates

  • ACTION: Sponsorship: Kristi to talk to Molly. Either Molly will attend calls or send emails to the private guadec-organization list - Kristi will follow up with Molly

  • ACTION: Sebastian to publish old minutes on https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2019 and send emails - no updates, will pick up in the next dates

  • ACTION: Sebastian to get Kat photos of the auditorium/rooms for the photo policy (This may help - https://www.flickr.com/photos/128617711@N04/albums /72157648544597423 Tom) - no updates

  • ACTION: Kristi to talk to Neil about the potential keynote and update the team, also will reply to the person - no reply from Neil

  • ACTION: Kat to follow up with Meg about members of the papers team - no update

  • ACTION: Kristi to send Sebastian Molly's email address - done

  • ACTION: Kristi to follow up regarding sponsored dinners - in progress

  • ACTION: Kat to reach out about workshop ideas (Sebastian to do the GStreamer one) - Newcomer, Flatpack, Design, GitLab integration, XR design, Docs - in progress, XR and GStreamer confirmed

  • ACTION: Kristi will ask the university to email guadec-organization instead of emailing her directly - no update

Agenda

  • Last week's action items
  • University to sponsor lanyards
  • Day trips and visiting Thessaloniki
  • New talk proposal submissions
  • Next meeting

Minutes

  • University to sponsor lanyards
    • University have a sponsor who would like to pay for lanyards
    • Need to discuss with Molly because of the disparity in the cost of sponsorship vs. exposure compared to other sponsors
    • ACTION: Stathis to ask the University exactly what the sponsor (and who they are) wants printed on the lanyards

  • Day trips and visiting Thessaloniki
    • Email sent to guadec-organization,
    • Someone local will help with suggestions for vegan and vegetarian options
    • €100 is too expensive for maany attendees, but the cheaper options look great
    • Maybe look at a beach trip with free stuff to do around a location (like a beach bar)
    • ACTION: Kristi to send an email to university with our feedback on day trips

  • New talk proposal submissions
    • Not possible, paper submissions closed
  • Accommodation
    • ACTION: Stathis will visit the hostel tomorrow to figure out what's happening

  • Website
    • ACTION: Kat to send an email asking for help with updating and putting information on there

  • Design
    • We need to start thinking about signage, banners, etc.
  • Next meeting
    • Add "Diversity and inclusion activities" to the agenda
    • ACTION: Kristi will send out poll today

GUADEC/2019/Meetings/20190603 (last edited 2019-06-03 15:38:27 by SebastianDröge)