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I checked around this site for a previous description of the mission of this conference and couldn't find one. Wayne has described possible target audiences, to which I added r&f workers, but has someone articulated the goals of this meeting?
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[this would work better as a wiki, right? Can we do that on CorD?]

Dear----,

There has been a lot of interest expressed recently in holding a Communicate or Die conference on Labor and Technology, on the East Coast.

Possible goals for the conference might be:
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The audience could include:

• union officers, staff, organizers, and reps, who may not be all that technically proficient but who are interested in what the tools have to offer for their work;
• labor technical and administrative staff and activists looking to exchange ideas and share skills;
• rank-and-file workers (union and non-union), who are using the tools to organize worker to worker.

We want to make the conference and the planning/organizing process as inclusive as possible and so are reaching out to everyone who has registered as a user on Communicate or Die. We are particularly interested in making the conference agenda and planning useful and welcoming to women and people of color. You can find the discussion [here], or can email [steve] at [address]

We are not a pretty white, male crew. I hope I don't offend anyone, but it's more likley we're a bunch of ugly white males.

One of the things we need to know is what dates are available in January 07. I think that was the time suggested. I will call the campus center conference center where I have contacts and review both available dates and capacity. The main conference facility can be broken out into three "ballrooms" that can hold approx. 200 people theatre style, less in other seating arrangements i.e. tables. Their breakout space is limited but they have access to other types of spaces. Does a Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday mid-morning to early afternoon make sense? If Susan co-sponsors they give you a break on cost of the space.

Well, we got into to JwJ calendar and we're on the front page of the site (for now). I also submitted it to LabourStart, so it should have been on a bunch of other sites briefly...

I guess we're up to 8 committee members now? At some point, we should think about setting up a site specifically for the conference - maybe with the chat module installed so we can have some virtual meetings?

I think it's been good to get the discussion started on this site, as we've managed to lure a few new members in. But as the effort picks up steam, I think we may start to drown out other CoD discussions.