Organizers Log:

An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) on August 1st & Saturday August 2nd I have been organizing.

I am working a creating a website for FediCon.

https://fedicon.ca/

Right now it is very basic, and still a work in progress.

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Organizers Log:

An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) on August 1st & Saturday August 2nd I have been organizing.

I am talking to the owners of the room the conference will take place in.

I am dealing with some of the detail of getting the room ready for the conference.

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Organizers Log:

An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) on August 1st & Saturday August 2nd I have been organizing.

I have been trying to design a logo for FediCon.

(I am NOT a logo designer )

I tried using the FediOrigami version of the Fediverse logo, to be part of it.

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You can get the FediCon logo from here:
https://github.com/reiver/fedicon-logo

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Organizers Log:

An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) on August 1st & Saturday August 2nd I have been organizing.

I have paid the deposit to reserve the room chosen for the conference.

I also signed the contract for it.

The next thing I need to deal with is — catering, audio & visual requirements, room set up.

These will be additional costs.

(There are more things to do after those. But, that is what is next.)

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Organizers Log:

An update about the Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon) that I have been working on organizing.

As I mentioned before, we have a room chosen, and asked to use it on Friday August 1st & Saturday August 2nd.

I am waiting for them to send me the contract.

After I receive the contract, I will pay them a deposit to reserve the room.

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Organizers Log:

I am working on booking a room for this Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon).

I asked for Friday August 1st & Saturday August 2nd. Hopefully we get it.

(The weather in Vancouver is usually nicer then. Vancouver tends to have pleasant summer weather.)

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I assume they will either want me to put down a deposit, or want me to pay the full amount.

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Organizers Log:

I have some potential dates for this Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon).

I have been talking to one location about renting a room from them (for the conference). I asked them for 2 consecutive days we could rent a particular room.

This (in the attached screenshot) is what they said.

Given this, I am still leaning towards doing the conference in the month of August.

Maybe on a Friday and a Saturday.

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Organizers Log:

I received a reply about the room I am trying to rent for this Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon), that I mentioned here:

https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114003671300156925

I got back pricing information.

It seems they rent rooms by "session". And there are 3 "sessions" per days:

• 8 am - 12 pm (morning session)
• 1 pm - 5 pm (afternoon session)
• 6 am - 10 pm (evening session)

And —

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Organizers Log:

I continue to work on figuring out what it will cost to put on this Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon).

One question —

Should we give out Lanyards?

They are those things people are sometimes given at conferences that they put around their necks and usually some type of "badge" with their name on it, hangs from it

And if yes, should they be "branded"?

I know some people keep them as souvenirs

But they have a cost

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Organizers Log:

I am working on figuring out what it will cost to put on this Fediverse Conference in Canada (FediCon).

I have reached out to one location to figure out №1 is the room I am interested in renting for FediCon available, and №2 how much will it cost to rent it (for 2 consecutive days).

I am going to try to put the conference on a weekend (Saturday & Sunday). But that depends on availability and price differences.

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Organizers Log:

The name we are going with, for this Fediverse conference in Canada, is:

FediCon

(I have already been using that (FediCon) in the hash-tags. But, just thought I would say it explicitly in an "Organizers Log".)

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Organizers Log:

For this Fediverse conference in Canada —

One thing to figure out is — is the conference SINGLE-TRACK or MULTI-TRACK.

SINGLE-TRACK means that — we have a single (large) room, everyone at the conference is in that room, and only one presentation happens at a time.

MULTI-TRACK means that — we have multiple rooms, multiple presentations are happening at the same time, and people are split between these different rooms.

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Organizers Log:

Talking with the others involved with organizing this Fediverse conference in Canada —

We are now looking at the city of Vancouver as a location for this conference.

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