[Pycon-openspaces] Open Spaces planning

[Hobson Lane]

Gotcha. Perhaps polling would still be a way to inform organizers about the
interests of their audience. It's also a good way to inform attendees about
open spaces and get their "buy-in" for the range of topics/activities
offered. Some of the open spaces seemed lightly attended in past years. I
know when I hosted an open space last year, I would have benefited from
such a survey. Only one person showed up to my open space on neural nets.
If I'd known the interest level was so low I might have adjusted my topic
and activity suggestion a bit.

--Hobson

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On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Thank you Hobson!
>
> I just wanted to clarify what our job as the Open Space committee is to
> make sure we’re all on the same page. Our main job is to facilitate the
> Open Spaces, which means we make it possible for people to organize their
> own little Open Spaces by providing rooms, a sign up board, ideas for Open
> Spaces, general infrastructure, and promotion. Our job is not to organize
> each little Open Space ourselves. The PyCon attendees will pick a topic,
> pick a room and a time onsite themselves. Onsite our main job will be to
> make sure to put up the sign up board everyday, monitor the board and make
> sure the Open Space topics are CoC appropriate, document the topics, and be
> there in case of questions.
>
> I hope this clarifies while voting on topics for example is not necessary
> as the people will sort of make that decision for themselves onsite :)
>
> Have a good week everyone and please feel free to add new cards, assign
> yourselves to cards, etc.
>
> Anna
>
> Am 15.01.2016 um 21:46 schrieb Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com>:
>
> Thank you. I may not have been logging on or searching for boards
> correctly. I see it now, and I added a couple cards. Feel free to edit or
> delete anything I put up.
>
> --Hobson
> On Jan 15, 2016 6:02 AM, "Anna Ossowski" <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hobson,
>>
>> I must have added the wrong Hobson Lane (user name hobsonlane) the first
>> time. That’s strange because I used your email address to find you. Anyway,
>> just readded you under the right user name :)
>>
>> Anna
>>
>> Am 15.01.2016 um 14:49 schrieb Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi Anna,
>>
>> I cant find the Open Space trello board under my user name "hobs".  Could
>> you re-add me?
>>
>> --Hobson
>> On Jan 14, 2016 10:20 AM, "Anna Ossowski" <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Hobson and Kinga,
>>>
>>> I hope you’re both well!
>>> It’s the new year and PyCon is happening in just a few months. While our
>>> main work won’t start until closer to the conference, I just wanted to
>>> check in with both of you so we can start planning.
>>>
>>> I just created a Trello board for us, which I added both of you to. If
>>> you didn’t get added for some reason, please let me know your Trello name
>>> and I’ll add you again. Trello is a great tool for planning and
>>> collaboration so I thought it would be useful for us.
>>>
>>> I created 5 boards so far „To Do“, „In Progress“, „Done“, To Contact“,
>>> and „Ideas“. Please feel free to create new boards, add cards, or move
>>> cards around. I would also like to encourage you to assign yourself to
>>> tasks that you would like to tackle. I think the board names are pretty
>>> self-explanatory :) When you start working on a task, please just move it
>>> to the „In Progress“ board and when it’s done please move it to the „Done“
>>> board.
>>>
>>> My guess is that we should start working on things in March at the
>>> latest to have enough time to get everything done before PyCon starts at
>>> the end of May but there are things we can start preparing now so feel free
>>> to tackle tasks whenever you have time. The only thing we should wait with
>>> until closer to PyCon is contacting people. If we contact them too early
>>> people might forget about it.
>>>
>>> If you have any questions or need anything, please feel free to contact
>>> me anytime :)
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Anna
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>>
>>
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