[Inpycon] Open spaces & Lightning Talks

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Stickies should work for that. We can follow the same kind of model with
stickies as we do with trello?


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraju <me at kracekumar.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am bit scary about Internet failure/login required etc. Also we should
> think of plan B which will work offline.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Arvi Krishnaswamy <
>> arvi at alumni.iastate.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > I need to think this through a bit. Perhaps something simple like a
>> shared Google calendar, which can be collaboratively updated, and with
>> tweets that go out on #pycon when there are new appointments setup?
>> > And yes, either monitors or a projector plus screen (which can rotate
>> through different feeds - Twitter feed, camera feeds, schedule, photos
>> would be great)
>>
>> ​If we could get something like this done, nothing like it. ​One problem
>> I see with using a shared google calendar is, if 3 people want to give a
>> talk at location "A" then who decides who gets to give that talk? We're
>> really going for an *open* approach here. Ideally it would be great for
>> everyone who wants to talk to get an audience.
>>
>> How about using something like trello for this? We could have lists for
>> every open space spot, and anyone who likes to give a talk simply puts a
>> card in there with the required details (topic, a small description). The
>> interested people could reply on the card itself and could get something
>> arranged.
>>
>> Come to think of it, it really isn't necessary to have designated places
>> for these sessions, we really only need a way to *connect* the interested
>> speaker to the people who want to listen to him/her.
>>
>> >
>> > Arvi
>> >
>> > On Aug 14, 2014 11:25 PM, "Bibhas" <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thursday 14 August 2014 10:47 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I personally found it really hard. I'd love it if the open space was
>> closer to the other conference rooms, and if there was an electronic medium
>> of some sort to see what slots are blocked out. I love the barcamp
>> approach, but not sure it works as well with a thousand folks running
>> around.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> We can probably manage couple of monitors etc. But how'd you like that
>> to work? A webpage open on them all the time showing the open space
>> schedule and that can be updated whenever you want?
>>
>> ​What do y'all think?​
>>
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