Planning Our First Public Tabling Booth @ Barcamp LA

More details to follow. Comment if you want to come, Barcamp LA is the bomb! There is an October anniversary cake party at Santa Barbara Hack Sabbath for those who can't attend Barcamp LA in November.

UPDATED AGAIN: Fawkes Night is 2 days after Barcamp so we will combine Fawkes celebrations into Barcamp instead. 

UPDATED: This was going to coincide with our anniversary but Barcamp will be Nov 3-4, somewhat later. That's not going to stop us from celebrating our party on the 14th first and then having a second merry unbirthday party at Barcamp a bit late.

But wait - there's more!

The Booth

This year we will be eating our own dogfood and practicing what we preach in the Mediapedia.

We will be staffing a tabling booth to talk to fellow Barcampers about EmpowerThyself.com and much preparation will go into making our first public outreach a great success. This page will serve as the planning document for the event.

Things we need for the event:

• Materials: We need all kinds of things to hand out to people.
  • T-shirts: Its time to finalize the logo and T-shirt designs and to get some smart black shirts professionally printed so that we have enough for all our members and more to give out as we make new friends.
  • Cards: We need cards to hand out. We could do a card that has room on the back for personal contact info as well.
  • Posters: We need big glorious Empowerment cityscape posters as well as some of the other designs we have made and could make.
  • MacBook Skins: We are going to make custom vynil sticker skins that laminate the back of the MacBook Pro with the empower humanity cityscape poster such that the Apple logo's light shines through the Empowered symbol instead.
• Cake: We need to make a special cake to give out slices at our first year unbirthday party there. Late but still a good excuse to celebrate.
• Activities: We should come up with some fun activities for people to participate in like games and contests for prizes like cool schwag.
• Presentations: We will also be delivering presentations in Barcamp sessions. Time blocks are normally 30 minutes and long presentations can go on for an hour or 1.5. If you want to deliver a presentation about anything of interest to you, it need not be about Empowerment. I will prepare a sequel to the first presentation I delivered at Barcamp San Diego and there are opportunities for people to contribute to that as well.
• Site Features Working Properly: We need to have a highly functional site for people to start using it right away with our hands-on help. The more development progress we can make before Barcamp, the better.
• Special Game Idea: A game using the site somehow to win a special prize during Barcamp would be a great way to get people using the site during the unconference right away.