FSCONS 2009/Staff workshop

Time and place

See updated information in FSCONS 2009 Organisation.

27 april

• The wiki was briefly introduced, with a notice to everyone to use the watch feature to keep track of what's going on, if they are interested.
• Mailing list for staff will be decided upon and activated next week.
• The overall FSCONS information on the Main Page was reviewed and agreed upon.
• Location was decided for Burgårdens Konferenscentrum with IT University as backup.
• Jonas will mail Henri, Timo, LennartW, fsfe-nordic, Ole Tange, Petter and Smari regarding co-organisation of FSCONS
• How to engage more women in the conference was discussed. Jonas will talk to Nanda.
• Jonas to inquire about sponsoring with Google and Kodamera. Henrik to do Lanedo and op5. Several companies added to the list.
• Jonas to coordinate more regarding the logotype design, check with Cillicon Media.
• Henrik to organise moderation for the mailing lists.

26 may

• For our webbsite, we're still waiting for Marcus, then Patrik and Rikard will help with tech and content
• Logotype is waiting for Maxi
• Three keynote speakers from Mathias were added to the list. Agreement to also invite Sue Gardner.
• Potential themes for the conference was discussed. Agreement on "The Road Ahead in the Nordic Countries".
• Idea added to the list: panel debate or discussion between STIM, SVT, etc.
• Decision about the entrence fees: 200/600/1000 SEK with a limit of 100 cheaper (200 SEK) tickets, and the 1000 SEK tickets targeting business.

Action items

• Lennart to check with two potential people for graphics design.
• Lennart to invite Sue Gardner as keynote speaker (financed by Wikimedias budget)
• Stian to check back with Yochai Benkler if not heard from him for two weeks
• Henrik to invite Manuel Castells
• Rikard to coordinate together with Jonas, Henrik and Stian regarding free music events
• Jonas to check payment options: Payson, Paynova