2014 01 30 organizer meeting notes

Attending

Dan, Adam, Casey

Kyle showed up at the end for a bit.

It's free.

Power, wifi, etc, are provided.

It'll be co-hosted by STC, Student Tech Collaborative.

Have to be off-class hours. Spring Break is 2 weeks in mid-March: 3/7 - 3/23

We'll need a front-door guard w/ a Yale ID to let people in.

No food in the TEAL rooms.

Area food: Moe's, Great Wall, Anna Liffey's, Clark's Diner, Casius... so we could do the restaurant break-out groups for lunch.

Room holds ~114 people.

Kyle & Zack looked at the SupaThug place, aka the Broken Umbrella theatre:

It is both free and awesome. We'll run cat6 from SCF and the Grove for wireless.

Still needed:

It has no HVAC, so we'd have to aim at maybe May. It DOES have electricity.

If we can get the conf to 0 (or near 0) cost, we can let people attend for free.

We also can do what BarCamp Boston did, which is charge no attendance, but offer a T-shirt for a $20 donation.

Not many attendees: we need to encourage people to tweet it.

Casey: Students don't know the term DevOps. They'd be excited by Heroku, though.

CoreInformatics is sponsoring it. YEI is hosting.

Casey can advertise this to Yale ITS, which should help.

Adam coached one in NYC recently. ThoughtWorks was there, & would be interested in helping us host another one here.

http://railsgirlsnyc.herokuapp.com/ has a TON of info, including scripts for coaches.