2018-07-17 Meeting notes: RCon3

2018-07-17 Meeting notes: RCon3

Date

Jul 17, 2018

Attendees

  • @Kelly Foster

  • @Lucius Meredith

  • @Emily Weston

  • @Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)

  • Ela Kagel

  • Peter Harris

Goals

Discuss issues related to RCon3 program and extending invitations to speakers and guests

Discussion items

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Resources

Event price and marketing

  • Current price is <1/3 of comparable conferences in the US

  • Peter - Berlin is precarious economic area. Strong free-lance and gig economy. This impacts interest in 

  • Would anyone pay to attend a conference for a technology they don't know? (Peter)

  • Agreement - the goal it to get people to the conference, above 

  • Ela - there are a variety of events at various price points. Challenge is to market in Berlin now

    • IDEA - get Ela and Peter's blockchain contacts

  • IDEA research local Berlin tech meet ups 

    • Ex Ethereum, Cosmos

    • Look for Tomas, Phil to attend

    • Offer registration discount code

    • Peter has staff who can help support

  • IDEA make promo codes more engaging

    • Ich bin ein Berliner

      • Concern that some may not have a local id. This may limit success (Ela)

    • Ich bin ein Coder

      • To get, must submit some Rholang smart contract

        • Be one teach, teach one

        • Greg to put out a volunteer call 

    • Ich bin ein Cooperator

      • Demo membership of a platform coop

      • IDEA badges for name tags

  • IDEA article on Medium about the cooperative, new way of organizing around new technology

    • Ask Ela to write her perspective on forming a tech perspective 

    • DECISION Ela and Peter to get ideas (thoughts) to Emily by end of week. Emily to finesse.

  • IDEA organize a Berlin RChain meet up on an evening of one of the private days

    • Peter volunteers to speak

    • Medha - Might be good to ‘limit space’ to the meet up
      scarcity principle ‘first 100 people to register’ or a limited offering that includes access to the meetup

Program

  • New partnership with audio company. Plan to demo at conference

    • 2 sessions

    • Branded earbuds for registrants

  • Blockchain 3.0 panel

    • start email with Greg, Lilia, and Kenny

Speaker 

  • Greg needs to see a list of speakers to make stipend suggestions

Action items

@Emily Weston pair Ela and Jared to discuss channels for marketing
@Emily Weston work with Ela and Peter to help them extend RCon3 invitations to their network (pre-meeting session, free registration)
@Emily Weston work with Jared to locate Berlin tech meet ups. When and where are they, and then see if our local mavens can attend.
@Kelly Foster give free registration to RNode testers
@Emily Weston work with Ela and Peter to write Medium post
@Cody Clawson (Unlicensed) see if there is space to do a meet up on the evening of the private days
@Kelly Foster share concert info with Cody. Cody to follow up with Greg by EOD 
@Emily Weston create a list of known speakers in the program workbook to share with Greg to get his feedback on stipend.
@Cody Clawson (Unlicensed) work with Jared on branded earbuds for attendees
@Emily Weston   spin up email with Lilia, Kenny, and Greg to get panelists for Blockchain 3.0