Praja Blogathon - your review and support please!

Hi Everyone,

We have started the initial planning stages of the Praja Blogathon. The goal of the blogathan is to bring more people to Praja, and expand the content of the site and to bring more projects to the site.

We are aiming to have this event in July, current date is July 16th. The date isn't set it stone but we figured it is a good place to start. 

We need the community to help us brainstorm and bring more ideas to several particular topics. 

So this is what we need your help with.  I will be adding your thoughts to the wiki in an organized fashion to keep everything in one place:

Topics: Do we want a theme? Anything goes? High level guest bloggers? Events that we ask people to respond to? What does the Praja community specifically want out of this event? (more projects, solutions, etc)

Planning: How do we format this event? It will be primarly online but is there interest in an offline space? Should people register? Will there be liveblogging? When should the posts be due? How do we filter them? Should we involve other community focused sites like IJanaagraha or MyBangalore?

Outreach: Adversiting and getting the word out any ideas welcome. What specific communities do we want to include? (Developers? Journalists? etc)

Awards: Should there be awards for especially great posts? and What should those awards be? Do we get sponsors etc. 

So yes this a lot of things to keep in mind.  So in order to not get too disorganized I have set up tasks for each of the topics in the Blogathon Project: http://praja.in/en/user/4... (For some reason the tasks I created are not showing up under the project tasks tab)

Or just post ideas on the wiki or in the comments below.

I hope we can spend the next few weeks figuring out how we want this event to look like with clear goals for the community and then start the actually planning and getting support.

How does this sound?