[ONLINE] MautiCon Working Group Meeting (10:00 a.m. UK time)

Attendees

• Sven Döring

• Ruth Cheesley

• Ima-Abasi

Apologies

• Ekke Guembel

Notes

• Discussion on the venue we've been offered and how to manage multi-tracks

• Could we perhaps bring across the partition so we have 2/3 of the room for one track, and 1/3 of the room as a sceond room. Perhaps then for the awards session in the evening to bring back the partition wall.

• Questions to ask facilities:

• Can we separate out the tracks into two rooms

• Can we stream into the second room for the opening keynote?

• Could we remove the partition at around 5.30 so we can have one large room for the awards event

• Reviewed the budget - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RdfgwTyXZEeNNQHfn15g7f26gqIZD2UvRuVI8dcrX6c/edit?usp=sharing - which seems to be reasonable and allows us to keep the cost of the tickets down.

• Discussion on potential sponsors

• Ruth would like us to have a track which is focused on digital sovereignty, privacy and related topics

• Sven suggested we could have the second room in a split track - one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

• Ima-Abasi asked how long we expect sessions to be and which types of sessions

• Ruth suggested keeping how we've had it before - 45 minute session of 30 minutes and 15min Q&A

• Presentation or Panel

• We can seed topics that we're interested in within the Call for Speakers

• Digital sovereignty, data sovereignty

• Privacy

• Ethical use of AI in marketing automation

• Set up the Call for Speakers this week and get it shared early next week (Ima-Abasi to take this on)

• Use Stripe for the payments on the website - Ruth to set this up.

• Ruth to check out the Zoho Backstage setup and see how we onboard sponsor

• Zoho has given us an extension of 15 days

• Discussion on ticket prices

• 150GBP normal price

• 130GBP early bird

• Minus £1 to make it clickbaity :P 

• Ruth to check the domain CNAME functionality of Zoho Backstage and set up with - perhaps using mauticon.org

• Discussion on using mauticon.org and perhaps have archive.mauticon.org for the older events and then use the main www to redirect to the current year's events.

Actions

• Ruth to reach out to Seacontainers re. room partitions

• Ruth to clone previous event and add Ima-Abasi as a team member (Ima to share email address)

• Set up tickets on Zoho and connect with Stripe

• Pay for Zoho 

• Set up domain/subdomain redirection/CNAME