[Inpycon] Open spaces & Lightning Talks

[Shrayas rajagopal]

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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Vijay, Bibhas,
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> What do we do about the blog post? We need to publish this soon.
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> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy <
>> arvi at alumni.iastate.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > I think there were a few things that I thought the calendar would help
>> with.
>> > - not sure how many people are on trello, a larger % are on google
>> calendar already
>> > - time flies by pretty quick at conferences and I thought it'd be handy
>> for me to subscribe to a calendar and get notifications
>>
>> Fair enough.
>>
>> > - not sure trello solves who speaks when, it in fact requires more
>> arbitrage between two notes in one list which may be planning the same
>> slot? (I may not have understood your suggestion)
>>
>> ​Well, what I meant was, instead of thinking of these as "sessions" why
>> not think of them as getting the audience for someone who wants to talk.
>> i.e. if i want to talk about something, i'll announce that i'm interested
>> in talking about "X" and on that card, people who want to listen to me can
>> find out where to meet me and then find a decent place to have that
>> discussion. Nimhans is a HUGE place to have adhoc discussions. Of course
>> then it means that the Rooms don't get used up all that much.  ​
>>
>> >
>> > I do like that the Trello option provides for better collaboration and
>> discussion under each note. This is definitely valuable and I can't think
>> of a way to do this with just a calendar.
>>
>> How about having something like an IFTTT recipe to connect trello ​with
>> GCal and get something going? Haven't thought this through though.
>>
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Arvi
>> >
>> > On Aug 21, 2014 11:22 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
>> >> >
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