[Mpls-pm] YAPC 2012 in Minneapolis?

Mark Allen mrallen1 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 13 22:56:49 PDT 2011


I definitely want to help.

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On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Dave Rolsky <autarch at urth.org> wrote:

> 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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