= SFD 2014 Kitchener-Waterloo: Organizing =

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=== Organizational meeting! ===
 * '''When:''' Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 3:00pm
 * '''Where:''' Queen Street Commons Cafe
 * '''Location:''' 43 Queen St. S., Kitchener ([[http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.4492&mlon=-80.4894#map=15/43.4492/-80.4894|Map]])
 * '''Agenda:'''
  * Getting our act together for promoting the event
  * Figuring out what movie to show (or not to show a movie)
  * Clearing up remaining outreach
}}}

== Goals ==

 * Greater outreach to people not "the usuals"
 * Greater relevance to people in 2014


== Topic Ideas ==

 * Cryptoparty : LUKS, Enigmail, TOR browser bundle, GPG, keybase.io
 * Security and privacy in 2014
 * Programming using FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Touch (Lloyd Carr)
 * Open Data and how to use it
 * The Maker movement
 * Open Source and Why Use It (Khalid)
 * Show "The Internet's Own Boy" movie about Aaron Swartz
 * Free culture disc again

=== Suggested Schedule ===

||'''Time'''||'''Presentations'''<<BR>>Queen Street Commons Cafe||'''Workshops'''<<BR>>Working Centre Wright Room (2nd floor)||'''Installfest'''<<BR>>Computer Recycling||
||10:00am||&nbsp;||&nbsp;||<|12>Installfest||
||10:30am||<|2>Making a Living with FLOSS<<BR>>Khalid Baheyeldin||<|3>OpenSCAD||
||11:00am||
||11:30am||<|2>Open Access Publishing <<BR>>Andrew !McAlorum||
||12:00noon||break||
||12:30pm||<|2>Photography (?)<<BR>>Stefan Chirila||<|3>!CryptoParty||
||1:00pm ||
||1:30pm ||<|2>Open Data||
||2:00pm ||break||
||2:30pm||<|2>Inkscape <<BR>>Kyle Murphy ||<|3>Programming||
||3:00pm ||
||3:30pm||
||4:00pm||<|4>||<|4>Movie: The Internet's Own Boy (1hr45m)||<|4>||
||4:30pm||
||5:00pm||
||5:30pm||

== Outreach ==

What are the "asks" for these organizations?

 * Presentations?
 * Sponsorships? (for what?)


Some organizations to consider approaching:

 * Communitech
 * Open Data Waterloo
 * KPL (is Makerbot FLOSSy enough?)
 * WPL
 * Cities: Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph
 * Computer Science Club
 * School boards
 * Chamber of Commerce
 * Local tech companies (Google? Others?)
 * Small business advisory board



== Publicity ==

 * The Record "Nightlife" section
 * The Community Cord
 * Mailing lists
 * Poster boards at KPL
 * Good Work News at TWC
 * CBC
 * CTV
 * Rogers TV
 * Conestoga College (they found out about us last year)
 * Facebook page -- Done! [[https://www.facebook.com/sfdkw|SFDKW]]
 * Twitter feed -- Done! [[https://twitter.com/sfdkw|@SFDKW]]
 * Fediverse -- Done! [[http://sn.jonkman.ca/sfdkw|@SFDKW@sn.jonkman.ca]]


== Things We Need ==

 * A good venue (TWC and SJK are available. Are there better locations? The Tannery?)
 * CDs/DVDs
 * Snacks (probably TWC will pitch in) 
 * ???
 * Poster
 * 1-page leaflet for distribution in coffee shops and small restaurants

== Want to help? ==
We also do some of our planning on mailing lists.
 * Kitchener-Waterloo SFD-Planning list:  Contact sfd@theworkingcentre.org to get subscribed
 * Global [[http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss|SFD-Discuss]] mailing list