[Eg-oversight-board] Evergreen 2013 conference update

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

Tara Robertson has provided the following update for our board meeting 
today:

Not much to report at the moment, it's summertime and a lot of us have 
been on vacation. Things will start to ramp up in October. There's a few 
things we'd appreciate help with.

     Call for proposals 
(http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/call-for-proposals/) is open until 
September 30th. We've only had a handful of proposals come in so far 
(realize it's early days still) but I'd encourage the Oversight Board to 
nudge people who would present interesting, relevant sessions. We'll ask 
for more help from the Program Advisory Committee ( http:// 
eg2013.evergreen-ils.org /schedule/) in September to get the call out 
and ensure we have a solid program.
     Sponsorship - we're starting with the two host organizations BC 
Library Coop and King County Library System. After we follow up with 
previous sponsors we'll be contacting the wider community to leverage 
their vendor relationships. We hope to have most sponsorship confirmed 
by November so we know what kind of budget we have for food and social 
events.
     Registration and hotel bookings - if you know you are coming and 
are able to--please start registering now. The deadlines with the hotel 
for room block bookings are fairly early and we won't really exhale 
until we've met those.
     Passports for non-Canadians - please encourage staff in your 
organizations who are planning on attending to apply for a passport if 
they don't already have one.

We tested our DIY streaming setup at a local ebook summit and it works 
fairly well. At minimum we are hoping to stream the keynotes, but budget 
allowing, we'll stream both sessions.

That's it. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns, Reach 
me here, or at my work email (trobertson at langara.bc.ca)

-- 
Galen Charlton
Director of Support and Implementation
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
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