Thursday, March 1st, 2018: Caltech

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Logistics (resolved)

✅ Meetup event page
✅ Lead organizer: Marcy
✅ Location: Caltech, Morrisroe Building
✅ Parking: street
✅ Attendance limit: 30-50 people

Logistics (in progress)

▪️ see WTD organizer guide
⬜️ Jen: bring food
⬜️ Jen: take photos (including at least one of Sarah)
⬜️ Marcy: bring easels
⬜️ Marcy: prepare A/V setup (if needed)
⬜️ Marcy & Andrea: order pizza 🍕
⬜️ Marcy & Andrea: record talk
✅ Marcy & Andrea: update Meetup page (note: we don't encourage recruiters to attend)
✅ Marcy & Andrea: secure talk
✅ Andrea: prepare/repurpose slides
⬜️ Andrea: bring WTD stickers
⬜️ Andrea: ask SGV LUG to cross-post Meetup
⬜️ Andrea: ask SoCal Python to cross-post Meetup
⬜️ Andrea: post Meetup link to SoCal Python Slack
✅ Andrea: make announcement at SoCal Python (2/27)
✅ Andrea: follow-up with Machiko, confirm April meetup
✅ Andrea: make announcement at 2/8/18 SGV Linux Users Group meetup
✅ Andrea: make announcement at 2/28/18 SoCal Python meetup

Speaker logistics (in progress)

▪️ Format: 20-40 minutes (1-2 talks) with Q&A
▪️ Marcy: contact Aleksey, sys admin
▪️ Marcy: prepare a back-up talk (as contingency plan)
▪️ Andrea: prepare a back-up talk (Contributing to WTD website repo)
✅ Andrea: confirm Sarah Bostwick, EmberConf warm-up talk (due 2/16 - 2/22)

Announcements

▪️ WTD Portland conference
▪️ WTD LA April event, 4/5: to be hosted by Machiko Yasuda at Reaction Commerce
(Presentation: Integrating Algolia DocSearch)
✅ Andrea: confirm with Nik (PyBeach announcement) (due 2/28)
✅ Andrea: confirm with Lan (SCaLE announcement) (due 2/28)

People to invite

▪️ (Marcy's friends)
✅ Nik Kantar (SoCal Python, PyBeach)
✅ Lan Dang (SGV LUG)
✅ Christine Corbett Moran (Caltech, Summer App Space)
⬜️ Paul Ramirez (Caltech, Getting Involved in Open Source)
⬜️ Gregor Martynus, Hoodie Girls
✅ Justin Dorfman (StickerMule)
✅ Evelyn Masso (Write Speak Code)