[Pycon-openspaces] Open Spaces Update

[Ewa Jodlowska]

I have asked Arbi (our designer) to think of something creative. Hopefully
he can come up with something that tells the open spaces story well.

BTW - I looked over the blog. LGTM.

Best regards,

Ewa
Director of Operations
Python Software Foundation
Cell: 415-319-5237

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Note that, on the printed schedule, the Open Spaces should not be
> displayed as though they begin and end when the talks to their left begin
> and end, because talks start and end at odd times but Open Spaces always (I
> think?) begin and end right on the hour. This might make them a bit
> challenging for the printed program folks to display, since the layout is
> very much dictated by when talks begin and end.
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ewa!
>>
>> That is totally fine about no Open Spaces at the sprints :)
>>
>> We were thinking about something like this
>>
>>
>> Basically just a very small blank column titled “Open Spaces”, just big
>> enough to make a little “X” with a pen. The idea behind this is to remind
>> people that there are Open Spaces going on besides the regular talks and to
>> give them the opportunity to mark the time slots they are planning on
>> attending Open Spaces in.
>>
>> If there was additional space in the program, maybe we could also add 2
>> small sentences explaining what Open Spaces are and where you can sign
>> up/find the schedule.
>>
>> Please let me know if this makes sense.
>>
>> Thank you so much!
>> Anna
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> You are appreciated.
>> You are enough.
>> You matter.
>> You are not alone.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2017, at 5:05 PM, Ewa Jodlowska <ewa at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anna,
>>
>> Thank you for putting together such a comprehensive update email. I have
>> cropped out the points I am not addressing, but feel free to ask me
>> anything I miss :)
>> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> * We talked about offering Open Spaces during the sprints and Ewa said
>>> there would be rooms available to do this. Do we still want to do this? Is
>>> there anything else we would need to do in order to make this happen?
>>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, we do not have the same space as we did in 2016 for
>> Sprints. This year the Sprints will be on the lower level and in the rooms
>> where our tutorials/open space rooms will be prior to the Sprints (section
>> A & B). See map:
>>
>>
>> <Screen Shot 2017-03-06 at 4.52.53 PM.png>
>>
>> We have less space than we did in 2016 so we cannot commit any spaces to
>> Open Spaces at this time. However, from my experience, Sprints attendees
>> always find a way to have ad hoc get togethers.
>>
>>>
>>> * We agreed that it would be a good idea to publish a blog post about
>>> the Open Spaces again this year. I pulled up last year’s blog post
>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZvEyX-xH6VccLpL5TK_EcWt5me0Y6tlMP4QOwLfbLVM/edit#heading=h.a5etkmit3rbc>
>>> updated it, and left some comments. If you all could take a look and
>>> comment/edit, etc., that would be fabulous.
>>> Trey, you mentioned that it would be good to have the blog post added to
>>> the Python newsletter. Do you have any ideas on how we can accomplish this?
>>>
>>>
>>> Ewa and Brandon,
>>>
>>> * We talked about adding a section about the Open Spaces and possible a
>>> blank column indicating each Open Spaces time slot to the printed schedule.
>>> Do you know yet if this will be possible?
>>>
>>
>> Our designer is working on the schedule this month. Since it is small, we
>> have to see if it will have space for adding the open spaces. Can you give
>> me more detail on what you expected for this?
>>
>>
>>
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>
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