[Mpls-pm] YAPC 2012 in Minneapolis?

[Dave Rolsky]

Hi, MPMers,

Leonard and I have been talking about putting in a bid for YAPC 2012 in 
Minneapolis. We've done some preliminary work on it, and actually have the 
McNamara Center (site of Frozen Perl) reserved for a week in the summer of 
2012.

We need to decide if we want to go ahead on the bid soon. The due date is 
June 1, which gives us about 6 weeks.

Leonard has told me he's willing to help, but he doesn't want to be in 
charge. I'm willing to consider being in charge, but I don't want to do it 
with just two people ;)

So ... do you want to help plan YAPC 2012? If so, please let us know. 
There's a variety of tasks to be done:

* Advertising
* Sponsorship coordination
* Logistics planning
* Website design and management (posting news, putting useful info up, 
etc.)
* Talk selection committee and scheduling
* Coordinating with select high profile speakers (Larry, Damian, etc)
* Social event planning
* Food planning (although I probably want to work on this myself)
* Making sure wireless will work
* Working with hotels on group rates
* A million things I'm not remembering

If we can assemble a decent committee willing to commit to working on this 
for the next year, I think I'm probably sucker enough to take the lead.

Of course, if there's someone else who wants to take the lead (I'm looking 
at you, Frozen Perl planners), I'm totally cool with that too ;)


-dave

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