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Event planning
Be sure to check the Calendar and any related Groups' events before planning an event. Weekends are horrible for students, and campus during the day is horrible for non-students. A good compromise is UM North Campus after 6 (free parking), or Central Campus or downtown near the Diag (on a mid-week night). Check out the College of Engineering room schedule
and the SOAS facilities page
for availability...
Conferences
- a2geeks conference for 2009
- Entrepalooza
at UM - Futurtech
at UM
Unconferences
- BarCamp
, StartupCamp
- ex. ArbCamp 08, Open Everything
- Ignite!
/Pecha-Kucha
lightning talk nights
Eli Neiburger at AADL has also offered to help arrange events to be held at the downtown library - maybe good for this? ArbCamp
has been held at WCC before (rented for free, I believe) as well.
Hackathons
Networking
- Lunch 2.0
- tech office open houses - Startup2Startup
- educating and helping the next generation of internet startups
Other
- Video Games Live!

- ROFLcon / XORcon

- vintage tech swap meet (e.g. http://vintage.org/
, maybe also freegeek-style installathons to donate old machines to nonprofits?)
Comments (1)
Jan 15, 2009
Dug Song says:
Notes about the Michigan Theater: They're booked up through February, but could...Notes about the Michigan Theater:
They're booked up through February, but could offer March 1. Theyr'e also totally booked in April, with few holes in March and May.
They need to schedule events the first of the month preceding the month of the event - e.g. by Feb 1, in order to do a March event.
The main theater seats 1700, the screening room 200. Non-profits benefit from a reduced rate. Rates depend on day and time.
For a daytime event:
Main theater: Sat $2750, Fri/Sun $2000, Mon-Thurs $1800.
Screening room: $500 for most days, and they only do daytime events there
For both, there are other costs involved, not included - tech labor, which for a slide/DVD presentation would be $300-800, and a "restoration fee" of $1.50 per head, regardless of what we charge for tickets.
They were very excited about doing this event, and even more interested about the idea of doing an Ignite! night (which Ryan Burns and I have had some early discussions about).