<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
I'm about to try and nail down the keynote speakers
and want to know if there is any certain etiquette about it. I'll
be contacting Larry (via Gloria) and Damian for sure. I know that Bill is
on this list and he did a keynote in </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Chicago</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
, giving an update on
TPF. I'm pretty sure that we'll want to do it again for 2007,
so Bill, if you have a preference for how you'd like to be asked, let me
know ;-)</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div>I'd say just email nicely and ask. I imagine that the people you've mentioned here wouldn't be too surprised to receive an email asking them for this.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Just to give everyone an idea of what some of some of the
current todo items we're working on include:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - Working on arrangements for possible 'Master
classes' like YAPC::NA::2006</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - yapc website creation/modification with ACT (A
Conference Toolkit)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - Sponsorship (contacts, benefits, documents, etc)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - "logo" for YAPC::NA::2007</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - catering menu for snacks and such (research
previously suggested 'provide snacks ourselves')</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - Hotel and travel discounts</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - Compilation of 'social' resources
(restaurants, attractions, transportation around </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Houston</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
, etc)</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> - Etc, etc, etc</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the update!<br><br>Cheers,<br>Richard<br><br></div></div>