Jozi A Team

The event will take the format of keynotes (2?) then some unconference-like lightning talks. People should feel free to suggest/nominate people to give takls. (Don't feel shy about nominating your self ) There will also be an "exhibition" area where user groups and supporting companies can have a stand to talk to the public about what they do, encourage membership etc.

User groups are encourage to also organise their own activities for the day but should let us know if they need any resources such as rooms, electricity etc.

Please add your own wiki pages if you want to have more space to discuss something. You can also add pages for your own user groups to plan their activities.

Next Meeting

Next meeting Wed 15 Aug at 15:30 - online

Agenda (summary)

• Venue finalisation (internet access, catering, desks/chairs,tables)
• Keynote speaker follow up
• Sponsor follow up
• Marketing - web site
• User group report back - planned activities

Whats were talking about in the meeting.

Venue

Location to be either Novel office in Rivonia or WITs (For now the cost of anything else is prohibitive) Were going to going and do a combined event with Science Hack day which will be running on Saturday and Sunday

• Final decision on a location
  • Two location either Novel offices or Wits
    • Carolina to confirm about WITS and what's available
    • Johann Els (Suse) to confirm the Novel offices.
  • We need to finalise the location at this meeting

Venue requirements:

• 1-2 X lecture room, projector, mic

• room with desk & chairs to write LPI exams, should be away from the noise of the foyer area

• foyer area with tables
• food/coffee place - would be good if we could get sponsor for tea/coffee and food(if possible) *Johan Else from SuSE* may be able to help here.(Thanks)

Key Note

• Key Note
  • We have several suggestions for key notes people will need to contact there suggestion and get feed back if its possible
    • Tim to talk to SKA - Tim
    • Carl to continue talk with Red Hat - Carl
    • Maraka - ?
    • High performance computing - ?
    • Open Data - Schalk

Marketing

• Infrastructure set up
  • Since after this meeting we can start telling people when and where we need to send out emails so people can start adding it to their calendars. We'll need several things around this to occur
  • Even bright to be setup - Noto/Schalk
    • Website - Noto
    • We need some people to commit to talks and what they will do there 10 minute talk on
      • Start thinking about what you would like to talk about. It will help if we can add some of these to the emailthat we'll be sending out
    • Email that we can send to people notifying of the event
      • This should also contain some of the talks we'rethinking of giving also about science hack day

User Group Follow Up

Hopefully user groups have consulted their members and got an idea of what they want to do and achieve for the day.

• Start the initial talks with groups about what they would like to door talk about on the day
  • Mark - Linux certification/LPI exam lab - reduced exam fees for the day
  • House 4 Hack - Arduino training ? 3D Printers so people can getthings printed with pricing?

Other

• SME stream from SAOSS- Bheki. Mark following up with ict@innovation

Provisional schedule for the day

• 9:30 - Start
• 9:45-10:15 Main key note
• 10:15-10:30 Questions
• 10:30-10:50 Keynote 2 (if there is one)
• 10:50-11:05 Questions
• 11:05-11:25 Keynote 3 (if there is one)
• 11:25-11:45 Questions
• 11:45-12:30 Lightning talks at most 10 minutes (gives 4 talks may need to limit to 8 minutes with 2 minute setup and change over)
• 12:30-13:15 Lunch
• 13:15-15:00 Lightning talks at most 10 minutes (gives 10 talks)
• 15:00-Late Science hack day (may start earlier ? )

Sponsors/Organisations to follow up

• -Sponsor marketing sheet - Mark-
• Sponsor/Communuity follow up
  • Google - Johan (not SuSE)
  • -Oracle - Mark-
  • -Suse - Nicole/Mark-
  • Internet

    • SkyRove

    • OneDemand

Archived

Web Site

There is a desire to organise a web site for the event which can be used as a portal going forward. It was strongly felt that the site should leverage the service event bright so as to not re-invent the wheel, especially since we have limited time.

Activities

• LPI Exam Lab
• Linux/BDS install device (LUG?)
• Beer brewing?
• H4H hacking?

Steams

• Main Stream - as above

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