Do we have a rough idea when Arduino Day or Week will happen in 2023? I helped to organise Arduino Day events in 2017 and 2018 in Maryland, USA but have since moved to Virginia and want to start planning for 2023, including finding a venue and an existing group to team up with.
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+1 from me. I'm organizing Arduino related events in our Hackerspace https://bitraf.no. Please post here once decided?
I would also like to get started planning an event. Looking forward to hearing the date.
A suggestion I had was that somehow a free week/month/whatever of Arduino Cloud be offered to participants. If that were to happen, our workshop would make use of Arduino Cloud instead of Google Cloud Free Program/etc.
I've been organizing the local Arduino Day in town since 2016 and based on the previous dates I believe it would most likely be on april 1st this year. It could also start on march 25th, in case it would be the whole week.
Arduino Day on my birthday... AGAIN? 
Now that Arduino Day 2023 has been apparently announced as 3/25/2023, how quickly can we get promotional material or at least a link to a page officially announcing that it's happening? I have already reserved a large meeting room at a local library to do an event here in Richmond, Virginia, USA, and I need to start passing the word to get participants with exhibits. This week I'm checking in with the local maker group to drum up interest. Anything I can get beforehand will be very helpful.
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Hello everyone, i'm Anna from the marketing team here in Arduino and i just wanted to say we are very happy for your interest in participating. As of now, the call for speakers is opened so if you want to talk about a specific project or topic you can pitch your idea here: Arduino Day 2023 - Call for speakers
On another hand, we'll open the call for organizer on February 15th, so it's a matter of days. Stay tuned!
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Good afternoon. I am from Russia and I would like to hold this event at the Children's Creativity Center. Where can I get promotional materials? I need digital content.
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Anna, we still need the promotional materials such as downloadable logos and such to start advertising our events. All I have so far is the one that appears on the blog page. I did two of these events, back in 2017 and 2018 and I remember we had access to several useful items. We're five weeks away and I need to get started preparing for my event I've already scheduled at one of our local libraries. Thank you in advance.
Just head to day.arduino.cc and look for the button labeled "Join as an organizer"
Usually the media kit link is sent as soon as we are approved as organizers, might take a couple of days
Thank you, I put in my application as an organizer, but I still have some required fields to fill in. I think I am going to recreate my old Meetup.com group, although the name will be different from what it was because I've moved to a new area here in the state of Virginia. That may help me find more people to participate in the event here. When I get it set up, the group will probably be "RVA Arduino Users" or something similar; "RVA" is the common abbreviation for "Richmond, Virginia", the state capital.
Thanks for getting back in contact with me, I'm hoping to put on at least as good an event as we did in Rockville, Maryland back in 2017 and 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAmIZ5HyrRA
Thomas Rackers
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That video is awesome! My goal is to empower the local community to reach that kind of level, with many people displaying different projects.
Thanks, our MoCo Makers member who put that video together did a really good job. I just created my new Meetup.com group, RVA Arduinos and Pi Tinkers, and entered our event into the calendar. I've submitted an updated application on Arduino's site for Arduino Day, filling in the information that was to-be-determined the first time I submitted it.
Well, Arduino Day 2023 is past, and I have a request for future Arduino Day events:
Can we get a much longer advance notice of what the date will be each year? We learned this year's date around January 31, giving us less than two months to get locations scheduled and publicity out. The entire school system here did not allow us to spread the word of our event through them, even through their STEM/STEAM programs. And ALL the libraries already had their meeting spaces booked, EXCEPT for the one that had just reopened after major renovations. And even there, their events newsletter, as well as those at the other libraries, are only printed four times a year, and they would have needed to know about our event in December or earlier for it to have appeared in the newsletter for this year's March date. I also believe that the library we were in is one of the smallest in the entire county, and does not have a lot of patrons on any given day, so I would like enough time to schedule with a larger library closer to the center of town.
So at least in my part of the state of Virginia US, I need much more lead time to get a future location and to get the word out. Is this possible?
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I would consider trying to organize something here in small-town Ontario (I only saw this thread in early Feb. when someone posted to it, so way too late); but, we face the same restrictions - few venues to start with, and many of the most desirable would want, if not demand, a fall booking for a late-winter or spring booking. Available public spaces are fewer in number here post-COVID (for example, our school system shutdown non-education use, and one can not yet book a classroom for anything, unlike pre-COVID), and as a result are more in demand, so planning ahead is imperative.
I see zero reason why the date could not be set today, so... what about it? If there's a reason why this can't be scheduled today, please tell us when it will be, so we can watch for it. I realize there's no reason to start a publicity campaign today, but setting a date now seems intuitive.
Well said, I agree completely. 
I think I found a better venue for our Arduino Day 2024. Most of my own Arduino demo stuff is model railroad related, and just north of here is Ashland, Virginia, which considers itself a Train Town considering it has a double-track main line running right through town center in the middle of N and S Railroad Avenue (makes sense). And their library is right there on S Railroad Avenue just a block south of an Amtrak rail platform. So I'm going up there today to check out their facilities and to get an idea how much lead time they need to arrange to use their meeting room for next year's Arduino Day... or for Ashland's own annual Train Day which is coming up on 4/29 this year.
So this is more motivation to get from Arduino a date for next year's Arduino Day waaaaay earlier than we did this year.
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