Drumbeat/events/July 29 call
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Drumbeat North America Call Notes
Who's on the call
- Mera, San Diego
- Art, San Diego
- John Britton, New York
- Heidi Massey, Chicago
- Michael Maranda, Chicago
- Spencer, Montreal
- Dharmishta, Boston
- Miraj, Vancouver
Agenda
- Go around cities
- Questions
- Updates/Comments on recent thinking
Cities
Chicago
- Partnered with NetSquared NetTuesday
- Second Tuesday of July, regular NetTuesday Meeting
- Intro of Drumbeat project, connected with OneWebDay
- Lots of differnet levels of understanding in the room
- Interoperability between groups
- Strong support from NetTuesday community for Drumbeat
- Coalition of the Willing - http://vimeo.com/12772935
Boston
- Aug 24th 6-10PM
- 60 People
- Awesome Foundataion and Center for Future Civic Media at Venture Café
- Blank on nametags for words
- Spectrogram: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/events/facilitators/training
Agenda (less traditional, evening event): 6pm doors open 7:30 Spectrogram (was expected to start at 6:30 but we pushed it back) 8:30 Awesome Foundation Announcement 10pm End!
New York
- Aug 7 1/2 day event
- 3 days before, hosting an organizers meeting. each of 3 lead organizers recruiting some folks (10-12 people) who will help out on the day.
- outreach to co-working spaces and hackerspaces
- avoiding the tech crowd. techies are explaining, facilitating, not the key audience for turnout.
- food and beer!
San Diego
- Thurs Aug 5th planning meeting
Q&A
- How to fit DB events into busy local tech event calendars?
Lessons
- collaborating with complementary organizations/efforts can drive new audiences that may not show up for "Drumbeat" "Mozilla" or "open web"
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