Committee formed
Event planner hired
"Retro" held
Planning meeting scheduled
On the 20th, Mary Lynn and Nancy will meet with the Renaissance Hotel
people in the afternoon. Everyone will have dinner with some members of
the Agile community in Washington D.C. who have offered to help us with
the conference. The meeting will go through a long agenda (can post this
later) all day on the 21st and will conclude in time for all of us to
catch our flights that evening.
Website in progress
Submission and registration systems being considered
Conference feedback posted
Budget in progress
The committee is almost complete. (We still need to fill the Beginner
Track Chair and Assistant Chair roles.)
Agile Alliance Board approved the selection of Meeting Strategies
Worldwide. This organization has solid experience in large
international I.T. conferences that have both an industry and academic
component.
The AGILE 2006 phone .retro. was held on August 30th. Everyone in
attendance was able to air all their views-- we got many useful ideas for
future conferences. Jutta and I took notes and I will post these on the
agile2007 yahoo group list soon.
The first planning meeting is scheduled for September 20-21 at the
Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel. In attendance will be:
- Jutta Eckstein (Industry Chair)
- Frank Maurer (Academic Chair)
- Mary Lynn Manns (Conference Chair)
- David Hussman (Assistant Conference Chair)
- Rachel Davies (AA Board President and Agile 2007 committee member)
- Nancy Wilson (Meeting Strategies Worldwide)
- Phil Brock (Agile Alliance Operations Manager)
Phil Brock has agreed to do the conference website and we are lucky to
have him. It should go live soon. (There is a temporary site is at www.agile2007.org)
We have explored a few options for new submission and registration
systems. It looks like our meeting planner offers the best options.
Select members from the committee will do a demo of the system on
September 6th.
I am uploading Agile 2006 conference feedback (as I receive it) to the
"files" section of our yahoo group list:
groups.yahoo.com
This should help you in your planning of Agile 2007.
We are working on the conference budget. It must be approved by the Agile
Alliance Board.
Form review committee
If your committee needs a review committee, now is the time to recruit
some willing and able people. Submit these names to me and we will post
them on the website.
Investigate keynotes
Interesting people have schedules that fill up quickly, so we need to hire
our keynotes soon. If you have an idea for a keynote speaker, please make
initial contact with him/her to find out:
- if the person is interested in speaking (and is available August
13-18)
- possible presentation topics
- cost
If you get this info to me before September 20th, we can consider the
person you suggest when we discuss keynotes at the planning meeting.
Think about your full CFP
Short descriptions for your session types were due on Sept 1st. thank you.
I am working on consolidating them and they will be posted on the website
soon. I will ask for your full CFP (if you haven.t sent it already) after
we set the conference timeline dates at the September planning meeting.
Please start thinking about your full CFP because we will need these by
September 30th.