Official International Wrong Planet Conference / Festival

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How say, one of the three major Canadian cities?

{The cities being Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto.}

What do you think, Alex?

Is there any way we can come up with a good number estimate of participants? I feel like it will be easier to get sponsors and plan once we know a budget, but we need to know attendance to figure out a budget. Thoughts?

I think it would be beneficial to develop a clear list of objectives, then designate teams, each with a specific goal. Here's what I'm thinking so far...

- Compile a List of Potential Sponsors

- Compile a List of Potential Speakers and Featured Participants

- Compile a List of Activities

So far we have a dance, special interest groups, workshops (I'm particularly excited about autistic talent in the workplace), a talent show, etc...

- Write a Formal Invitation to Potential Sponsors

I will try and complete this myself tomorrow. As I've mentioned, I've already been in contact with multiple organizations. I would like to put together a concise and engaging summary of our mission to be presented to each of our potential sponsors.

- Contact Potential Sponsors

- Estimate Attendance

- Estimate Budget Details (this will take time)

- Formulate Individual Sponsorship Request Criteria

Each individual who would like to receive monetary support to travel and participate (both autistics and family) will submit a written or videotaped entry offering a creative explanation of their motivation for attending, what they hope to contribute, and how participation will impact their lives. Ideas?

Remember guys, there are tons of ways to raise money. Think of how people get sponsored for fundraising walks? Funds can be gathered from large organizations, or local ones, families, friends, neighbors, and so forth... How bad do you want it?

- Identify and Assign Key Positions

- Choose Location

- Set a Date

- Plan a Solid Marketting Strategy

- And MUCH more!

This kind of event will require massive energy and focused coordination.

Who wants to help out, and how? Let's try and cover some of these bases!

Count me in, then!

Maybe there should be a whole page on WP for this, where everyone can see info on the planning.
And a section in the forum.
Rather than just one thread, buried in "Getting to know each other"
This thread should also be stickied.

Also, we do need that really good, quirky, catchy name. Alex had some ideas. What are you guys thinking? We need something that suggests a celebration, an epic autistic gathering. It has to be fun, easy to remember, and inspiring. Also, it will have to look good on posters and websites.

Suggestions?

How about...

Autism and Aspergers Awareness Festival?

Wrong Planet United?

A Different Mind: Aspergers and Autism Convention?

I've got more suggestions...

I can help with building a list of potential contacts and organizations. I'm in Southern California so contacts would get more vague the further they get from me, but I can take a stab at it by just doing extensive internet searches. Should I focus more on contacts near the LA and LV areas or throughout United States?

Meeting of the Minds - The Ultimate Autism Awareness Event

Au-spirational Autistic Summit

International Au-spirational Autistic Summit

The Right Planet (would definitely grab people's interest/attention - because they'd want to know the story behind the title)

International Wrong Planet Autism Conference (if you want to be boring and conservative)


I actually think some sort of play on the name of Wrong Planet/Right Planet could be quite clever and very relevant. I guess it depends whether you want to lean more in the direction of entitling it as a WP conference, or go more general/broad and call it an Autistic conference.