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Revision as of 21:08, 11 April 2014
Makevention 2014
Communication
Advertising
- Flyer
- Exhibitor Application
- Public Web Site
- Online logo
- Print logo
- Business cards
- Visit Bloomington is not going to advertise in markets outside of Bloomington.
Letters of Support
- Library
- City
- BTP
- Wonderlab
Current Activities
- Venue
- Date
Venue
- Convention Center - cost $2,150
- Also use the parking lot across the B-Line and the parking lot across College
- Also use the B-Line
Date
- August 30th
- Convention Center is totally open and they have us pencilled in at this time
- Same weekend as the 4th Street Art Festival
- Same weekend as an ISU (from Terre Haute)/IU home game
- Might be cool to do something with the Terre Haute Hackerspace and Rose Hulmann (I have contacts at both)
Organizing Team
- Jenett Tillotson, Bloominglabs, general chair, jtillots ]at[ cogbots ]dot[ com
- Therese Miller, IU/PTI, sponsorships, millertm ]at[ iu ]dot[ com
- Steve Backs, Monroe County Public Library, stivab ]at[ gmail ]dot[ com
- Michael Hoerger, Monroe County Public Library , advertising and graphic design, michaelismichael ]at[ gmail ]dot[ com
- Marc Cheetah, Monroe County Public Library, sponsors and general stuff, marc.j.cheetah ]at[ gmail ]dot[ com
- Nathan Heald, Bloominglabs, registration and schwag, dosman ]at[ packetsniffers ]dot[ com
- Barbara Hallock, volunteer coordinator, bahalloc ]at[ iu ]dot[ edu
- Austin Toombs, Bloominglabs booth coordinator, austintoombs ]at[ googlemail ]dot[ com
- Dan Halsey, Bloominglabs, badge maker and exhibitor coordinator, dakhalsey ]at[ gmail ]dot[ com
Possible Exhibitors
- Center for Sustainable Living
- Bike Project
- Discardia
- LVL1, Hive13, Club Cyberia, Makerspace: Goshen
- Wonderlab
- Indiana Filmmakers Network
- Bloomington Print Collective
- Bloomington and IU Amateur Radio Clubs
- Nicole Jacquard/IU's fab lab
- Local FIRST robotics teams
- Trained Eye Arts
- Robot Drawing Collective
- My Sister's Closet
- EGBG's - a Bloomington glass blowing shop
- Knitting club
- Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
Possible Events
- Power Wheels Race
- Circuit Bending
- Get toys from Bloomington Reuse Center
- Frankenstein stuffed animals
- Thursday night music event at the Bluebird
- Open houses at local makers space in Bloomington on Friday night
- Bloominglabs
- Trained Eye Arts
- Bloomington Print Collective
- Ecovillage
- Saturday night Par-Tay at Bloominglabs
Schools
- MCCSC
- Hoosier Hills
- Project School
- Pinnacle School
Entertainment
- Shammers - nerdcore group based out of Bloomington
- Long-shot, but Robert DeLong would be awesome.
Possible Sponsors
- Pinnacle School
- Hoosier Energy
- Crane's STEM group
- PTI
- Cook
- Ivy Tech
- Entrepeneurship Institute - Steve Bryant
- Bender Lumber
- Paul Bender - 812-339-9730 x210
- Boston Scientific in Spencer
- Cummins
- Baxter
- Herald Times (maybe in-kind advertising)
- MCPL (in-kind graphic design)
- Stansifers
- Kleindorfers
- Neff Engineering, a local 80/20 distributor
- Lowes, Menards, Radio Shack
- Bloomington Technology Partnership
- Ron Walker
- Katy Birge
- SproutBox
- Mark Krenz/SUSO
- Layne Hydro
- Vic's company
Contacts
- Mike McAfee, Executive Director, Visit Bloomington, mike ]at[ visitbloomington ]dot[ com
- Laura Newton, Assistant Directory, Visit Bloomington, laura ]at[ visitbloomington ]dot[ com
- Talisha Coppock, Executive Director, Convention Center, tcoppock ]at[ bloomingtonconvention ]dot[ com
- Zoe Monts, Sales and Event Assistant, Convention Center, zoe ]at[ bloomingtonconvention ]dot[ com
- Lauren Dexter, Event Coordinator, Convention Center, lauren ]at[ bloomingtonconvention ]dot[ com
Insurance
- Cost?
Budget
- Venue
- Insurance
- Printing
- Flyers and posters to put up around Bloomington
- Yard signs
- Banners for the event
- Handouts/Program for the event
- Advertising
- HT ads when it gets closer to the event
- Ads in the Ryder
- Ads in the IDS
- Billboards around Bloomington
- T-shirts for volunteers
- 50 Makevention shirts to sell during event plus pre-sales orders and volunteer shirts / ordered 8-8
- Other Schwag?
Income
- Charge vendors more ($50?)
- Encourage $5 per person/$15 for families donations
Registration handout / badges & schwag
- 200 lanyards with badge clips / ordered 8-8
- Wood gear laser-cut badges for $10, 100 to be made
- 500 paper badges
