Planning for apidays Paris

[swaldron58]

Having met with apidays we agreed to expand out involvement with apidays starting with the conference in Paris in December. There will be several action items created for this but let's start with collecting ideas around what we may do. In the call we discussed:
An education workshop. An instructor will use the education material OAI has created to take those who sign up through the basics of the specifications. What we learn on how to run an education workshop will be reused at future conferences as a regular offering. Separate discussion needed on if some sort of certification would be attempted in this first effort or just some notice of participation.
Some means of soliciting feedback from participants on their use of our specs and their ideas for improvements.
Do we work with apidays to have some data on who attended our sessions?
Do we at least offer newsletter signups on site or other actions that provide us a means to follow up later?
Do we offer participants a means to request ad hoc discussion topics?
Do we ask for financial support from sponsors? Just an example, a tool provider showing in a more hand on session how their product uses the spec. This idea has issues, just trying to promote some discussion.

[dret]

Just as a cross-reference: #47 (comment) proposes a slightly different model (not much, but it's a bit more specific and not 100% what @swaldron58 is proposing here). The idea is to have more person-centric workshops with well-known presenters and to combine the value propositions of the workshops being OAI-(endorsed|supported|approved|certified) and being led by people with well-known names.