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Welcome to the SQLSaturday Wiki¶

Introduction¶

We're putting all of our existing documentation about SQLSaturday event management online in this wiki and will maintain it as the primary resource for event leaders. To start with we're going to limit edits to event leaders and key volunteers and we'll re-evaluate in a few months to see if we should open up editing to all of our members. It's going to be a little disorganized to start with, but it will take shape!

Content¶

If you are planning an event, look at the following pages based on your event role.

Everyone

• Vendors - No content
  

• What Is SQLSaturday?
• Getting started: Reserved Date, Event Request & Qualifying Call
• Attendance Goals
• Building the Schedule
• Charging for Lunch
• Evaluations - Speaker and Event
• Keynote
• Lessons Learned from Event Leaders
• Liability
• PASS HQ Contacts for SQLSaturday
• Planning for Inclement Weather & Disasters
• Privacy Policy for Events
• Wait List
• Managing Event Messages
• [New] SQLSaturday Sites - Change Log
  

• Budget Planning
• Building a Sponsor Plan
• Helping Sponsors Be Successful
• Sponsors
• Finances
• National Sponsors
• Raffle
  

• Building the Schedule
• Finding Speakers
• Mini Presentations
• Presentations During Lunch
• Shirts
• Speaker Gifts
• Speaker Ready Room
  

• Creating SQLSaturday Images
• Event Bags
• Event Guide
• Hotel
• Marketing
• PowerPoint Template for SQLSaturdays
• Swag
  

• Volunteers
• Prize Desk
• Registration/Check-in
• Managing Volunteers - No Content
  

• Creating Signs To Your Event
• End of Day Cleanup
• Venue
• Parking Considerations
  

• Catering
  
    
  Social Coordinator
  

• Networking
• Organizing the After Event Networking Party
• Speaker Dinner (And Sometimes Volunteers)
• Twitter
  

Content Guidelines¶

For those of you creating and editing content, we ask you to follow the guidelines below. If you find a situation that calls for an exception either drop us a note (webmaster at sqlsaturday.com) or post it on our todo page.

• Limit pages to about what you can read without scrolling
• Use H1/H2 tags and bullets to organize content (and others if you need them), but keep it simple - just share the knowledge
• Do a quick review of the all pages list before creating a new one
• Feel free to modify pages, whether to fix a typo or to make it easier to read or more informative.
• Got an idea for a topic, but not enough time or knowledge to write it? Add a note to our Todo List.