MeeGo Conference Spring 2011

The main Conference site is: San Francisco Meego Conference 2011

Contents 1 Logistics 2 Organizing Committee 3 Call for proposals 4 Hyatt Space details 5 MeeGo Conference Warm-Up 6 Hacker Lounge 7 Ideas for fun activities

Logistics

May 23 - 25: San Francisco Regency Hyatt

• Annual industry event
• Announcements / Information focus
• Broader industry audience
• Call for Proposals and Registration will open early February

Organizing Committee

File:Organizing committee.pdf

Team Lead: Amy Leeland

Advisory and Community Interface:

• Dawn Foster - Community Management
• Quim Gil - Marketing Management

Program Committee:

• Lead: Dirk Hohndel
• Carsten Munk
• Thiago Maciera
• Ashley Walker (Speaker Management)

Coordination:

• Lead: Brian Warner Sponsorships
• AJ Reed: Post Event management
• Mike Shaver: Web management
• Dave Neary: Early Bird Events

Call for proposals

• CfP
• Draft CfP

Hyatt Space details

Link to conference area map:[1]

2nd Floor Street Level entrance

• Grand Ballroom A+B+C will be used as our Keynote room with redundant Screens/Sound in Market Street Foyer and Grand Ballroom Foyer (Seats 1300, with 100 standing in lobby spaces and feeds coming out)

Breakouts and room descriptions as follows:

• 1 Grand Ballroom A (700 theater)
• 2 Grand Ballroom B (200 cab)
• 3 Grand Ballroom C (200 cab)
• Tech Showcase will take place in Market Street Foyer and Grand Ballroom Foyer. Not to be just single table tops, requested 3 different orientations to choose from. Tea and Coffee will be available in Tech showcase area
• Registration + Welcome Kit fulfillment: Market Street Foyer and Grand Ballroom Foyer. Kits will be organized based upon gender/size, not name
• Media/Blogger Room: Regency A
• Keynote Prep Room: Regency B
• Event Office: Plaza Room

3rd floor Bay Level

• 4 Seacliff A-B (110 cab)
• 5 Seacliff C-D (110 cab)
• 6 Bayview Room A-B (200 cab)
• Platinum Meeting Rooms: Marina Room and Golden Gate room on Bay Level

4th floor Atrium Lobby Level

• All Catering Breakfast, Lunch, breaks and receptions will be held in Atrium of Hotel

This includes Garden Room A+B, 13 Views Lounge, and Hospitality Room can seat up to 1400 in this area.

• Nokia Boardroom: Boardroom A [atrium]
• Intel Boardroom: Boardroom B [atrium]

1st Floor Pacific Concourse Level

• This will all be used as Early Bird space partitioned rooms A-O (17,000 sq ft all partitionable) Saturday until Sunday evening then it will be………
• Hacker Lounge: Pacific Concourse K—O
• Meeting rooms partitioned in Pacific Concourse: A, B, C, D, E
• Gold sponsors get A and B
• Spaces F and G will be used as a meeting room bookable space

MeeGo Conference Warm-Up

The MeeGo Conference Warm-Up will include workshops catering to MeeGo application developers, and tutorials to help people get started developing for the platform. We also plan to have some fun extra-curricular activities involving building things.

The program is in early draft stage, but will include:

• MeeGo tutorials - Hands-on tutorials given by MeeGo community members and application developers
• Developer workshops - bringing together developers with a shared interest, workshops will give you an opportunity to tap the brains of the people who know best for your application or platform development
• Maker's Contest - make something as a team from basic raw materials

Hacker Lounge

Was a very popular activity for community members. Having it stocked with beer and snacks was perfect, and we'd love to do something similar for spring.

Ideas for fun activities

• The MeeGo_Conference_2010/Werewolf was popular, and we're scheming on some additional MeeGo_Conference_Spring_2011/Werewolf MeeGo Werewolf variations for 2010.
• During the fun activities of #MeeGoConf 2010, we spoke about the idea of having a full scale game during the conference. The game would involve as many participants as possible and be played from opening to closing of the conference. Based on the "Killer" game, we'll discuss the details on the MeeGo_Conference_Spring_2011/Killer page.
• Some ideas for the Maker's Contest are a parachute launcher (need to balance heaviness for the way up & lightness for the way down); building a catapult or trebuchet to throw some predefined object, building some kind of Rube Goldberg machine to accomplish an agreed task.