Good writeup. On it!
I’m on 3,5,8 and will work on points 1,2 over the weekend (twitterstorm and program page).
Re: travel grants - last year we offered 400 eur grants to participants via open calls - a first come, first served based on help in building the event. To be able to estimate if we have that budget while we hope for other sponsorship outside Edgeryders LbG and our hosts at SmartBE (in-kind), we really need an estimate for how much the food will cost us: accounting for shopping in the days we cook, catering and other delivery. Can we have numbers before Wednesday community call? Last year in Matera we made it within 1000 eur the entire food, but that was an exceptionally well managed kitchen 
@ireinga I guess I’m counting on you for the numbers? We could do with a nice post on all food activities in-the-making, now that your team is growing