Personal notes and reflections (scribbles!) on being the local guy-on-the-ground for FUDcon Toronto 2009. This is a memory-jogger, mostly.

FUDCon Schedule from the Local Perspective

T-5 months - check on space, hotel, FUDpub possibilities
T-4 months - negotiate hotel rate, FUDpub arrangements, reserve space, open registration
T-1 month - find lunch caterer, give approximate vegetarian counts to caterer and FUDpub venue
T-2 weeks - order shirts
T-1 week - reconfirm arrangements, give final vegetarian counts
T-2 days - print badges and signs
T-1 day - put up signs

Things to Do Differently Next Time

Brain dump...

Use a non-wiki registration system so additional information can be collected
- Ask who will be present on which days (useful for lunches, capacity planning)
- Collect detailed contact information - cell phone number, IRC nick, e-mail address
Get tons of power bars
Get more networking capacity at hotel and venue
Arrange all lunches in advance
Larger hack room at hotel
Agree on a common Flickr tag (not 'fudcon')
Pitch barcamp talks in advance (video? wiki?) with voting (counts don't need to be accurate, they need to be representative, for planning)