[Pycon-openspaces] Kicking Off the Open Spaces Planning!!!

[Hobson Lane]

Thank you Trey! Apologies for the late response. Really excited to hear
your thinking. Those 3 bullets are spot on! Seems very similar to ideas
Anna and I have been batting around since I joined her open spaces team.

If you or Zak want to take a stab at drafting material to support one or
all of those 3 bullet points, I'd be happy to help

1. flesh them out
2. incorporate PyCon staff feedback
3. seek approval for publication by PyCon staff
4. get them incorporated into the website and other announcements (maybe
even Zak's twitter bot dialog)

I think they'd really advance the quality of the 2018 Open Spaces
experience, especially if the Twitter bot can be evolved to incorporate
them into its "brain".

Regarding Anna's "High's and Low's" list from last year, some things I
observed last year:

* Low: The chatbot was pretty basic and needs work to be made really useful
* High: The chatbot was used by more than 50% of the openspace event
planners and seemed to get the word out a bit
* Low: Some of the open spaces (inluding the one I led) could have
benefited from some of Trey's guideance/ideas in his bullet points
* High: Tweeting a pic of the board seemed like it helped some people plan
their day
* High: The board posting went smoothly once we had a board up
* High?: Did we accomplish that 2-board approach we planned?

If we can support open spaces organizers with some or all of Trey's
ideas/docs this year I'd be super happy.

--Hobson


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 7:30 PM, Trey Hunner <trey at truthful.technology>
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Thanks for kicking off the planning Anna and thanks for continuing the
> conversation Zak and starting the issue tracking and announcements Hobson.
>
> Maybe we should start another thread for this, but I was brainstorming
> some open spaces ideas recently and wanted to dump them here.
>
> I met someone deeply involved in the agile world through a mutual friend
> recently and we talked quite a bit about communication at tech conferences.
>
> We discussed some strategies agile conferences use to get people meeting
> each other (determining topics to discuss in a group by using a
> Trello-style to-discuss, discussing, discussed system) and we talked about
> our views of open spaces. He noted that talks often draw people away from
> open spaces if they're hosted at the same time and we debated the merits of
> having dedicated open space days/times vs shared talk and open space times.
>
> Some things that I've been thinking about:
>
>    - Sharing a fairly curated ideas list for open spaces that have been
>    popular/successful in the past and open spaces we'd like to see folks put
>    up in the future
>    - Brainstorming and sharing alternative open space formats with
>    potential open space planners (e.g. quiet room, yoga, sticker exchange, or
>    an open space where people hold 2 minute conversations with a person and
>    then rotate musical chair style)
>    - Making a "how to run a successful open space" cheat sheet with
>    things like recommendations for giving a voice to attendees, taking shared
>    notes, and exchanging contact information with each other and considering
>    continuing the discussion online in a structured way
>
> Many of the things I've been thinking about involve more active
> recommendations/nudging from us to encourage a particular feel/vibe from
> the open spaces. Thoughts on this?
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Anna Ossowski <
> annabell.ossowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I hope you’re all well!
>>
>> I thought it would be a good idea to officially kick off the planning of
>> the PyCon US 2018 Open Spaces before the holidays hit everyone. May may
>> still seem a long time away but it’s never too early to start planning :)
>>
>> In the past I have used a Trello board (please let me know if you don’t
>> have access) to keep track of ideas and tasks but I am open to using
>> something different. I do think that using some sort of project management
>> tool, whether that’s something like Trello or GitHub, makes sense and makes
>> things a little easier.
>>
>> Maybe we can start by discussing what went well last year, what didn’t go
>> as planned, and any ideas we would like to implement for 2018.
>>
>> Looking forward to working with all of you again!
>> Anna
>>
>> ——
>> You are appreciated.
>> You are enough.
>> You matter.
>> You are not alone.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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