[Pycon-openspaces] Event tweet idea

[Hobson Lane]

I agree Anna. Composing thoughtful, timely tweets and replies would
certainly be a big effort. That's way too much.

But what about just checking the board once every 2 hours and buffering (in
tweetdeck) a generic reminder tweet before each openspace? That would be a
big help to attendees and open space hosts. All that's required of us is
that one of us check the board every 2 hours and make sure the next two
hours are reflected in the tweets on tweetdeck. If we rotated board duty
we'd only have to check it once in the morning and once in the afternoon
each. If a card goes up on the board within a couple hours or so before a
new open space is scheduled, I don't think the host or attendees should
expect a reminder tweet to go out.

Your two-board idea is an interesting one, but a two-hour "sliding window"
might do much more to help smooth things out.

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I put a little more thought into the idea we discussed yesterday about
> tweeting about the Open Spaces to remind people of when which Open Space is
> happening, and wanted to share my thoughts with you.
> I love the idea of having a @pycon_events Twitter account and tweeting out
> reminders about the Open Spaces shortly before they start. I believe this
> could lead to higher attendance of the Open Spaces since checking the board
> a few times a day can be a hassle for attendees, especially since PyCon is
> a pretty busy event.
> What I do feel a worried and stressed about though is the amount of tweets
> I/we would have to create, schedule, get out and maybe respond to several
> times a day. I do social media as part of my my job and other projects like
> PyLadies Remote and it can be extremely stressful if you want to do it
> well. I personally am a little worried about not being able to keep up with
> it well for the Open Spaces especially since there would be some time
> pressure.
>
> I was therefore pondering the idea of having two boards up for sign up:
> Let’s say on the first day people can sign up for the first and second day,
> on the second day people can sign up for the second and third day and so
> on. Some conferences also have people sign up online for the first day
> (which I personally don’t think is such a great idea but we could certainly
> discuss it) but if we had two boards up for two days everyday this would
> make it easier for people to plan and integrate the Open Spaces into their
> personal PyCon schedule, plus  it might also make it a little easier for us
> because we could plan ahead.
>
> The Twitter idea is surely a great one but we’re only a small team of
> volunteers and I think we don’t want to run around and be stressed about
> getting the right tweets out at the right time all day but also enjoy PyCon
> so I’m not sure if this is feasible for us :) I would therefore suggest to
> try out having two sign up boards this year and see how it goes. We can
> always improve things for the future.
>
> I would love to hear your thoughts!
> Anna
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