[Inpycon] Open spaces & Lightning Talks

[me kracekumar]

Hi

 Last year I managed open sessions for one day. It was quite well received.
We had good decisions but we didn't publicise well. Following are my
thoughts to improve open sessions

1. Publicise in web site, schedule and mailing list.
2. Announce in social media and send open session notes to all participants
and rejected talk proposers.
3. Make announcement about open sessions during breaks and have sign board
for open session.

Last year we decided to have two tracks. This year it is not clear about
number of tracks, it will depend on selected talks. If it is dual track I
think we will get that last room else we may end up in first floor.
Talks for open session & flash talks should be decided on that day only. If
we decide early in mailing list, people who are not in mailing list don't
get enough chance.

Conducting Hackathon or Bug smash during event days leads to lot of
logistics work and needs lot of volunteer. Having sprints,  hackathon et
all should be on different day from main conference.

I am all up for helping new people to getting started with open source,
have diverse talks given there are enough volunteers and logistics are
planned ahead.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:48 PM, RAJ Rohit Jalem <rajrohit at iitj.ac.in>
wrote:

> Shrayas,
>
> Yes, we can surely help people get started at Open source and bug
> squashing, with help from other Mozilla contributors and other experienced
> people.
>
> These kind of getting-started sessions would be really helpful for people
> who have some programming experience, and want to gear up for the open
> source experience.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Raj,
>>
>> Will surely contact you if anything comes up from my side.
>>
>> Do you have any points on how to make open spaces more interesting?
>>
>> I see that you're a Mozillian.. Can we do something with that? Have some
>> kind of an activity where people can contribute to Mozilla during the
>> conference? Thoughts?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:17 PM, RAJ Rohit Jalem <rajrohit at iitj.ac.in>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Shrayas,
>>>
>>> I would love to volunteer.  But, as I stay at Jodhpur, I think I can't
>>> be of any physical help.
>>>
>>> So, please let me know, if I could be of any help.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Anand,
>>>>
>>>> I Agree. I think that people should be self motivated. Let us have a
>>>> discussion, based on that I would be able to commit.
>>>>
>>>> /Shrayas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Shrayas,
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be awesome to make open spaces more attractive. But problem
>>>>> is we are always short of people to take lead and make things happen. Would
>>>>> you like to volunteer to make openspaces more exciting this time?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anand
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was watching talks from 2014 Pycon and there is a lightning talk[1]
>>>>>> where Greg of the aosabook fame talks about how they want people to come
>>>>>> together in an open space and work on something. I feel that we should make
>>>>>> way from great discussions like those.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Last year, I do remember that we had open spaces but they were tucked
>>>>>> away in some corner of the place and it didn't attract too much attention
>>>>>> (correct me if I am wrong)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What I feel is this time, we should bring more (way more) focus to
>>>>>> Open spaces and Lighting Talks. It is a great way for people to connect, do
>>>>>> things together and learn SO much more.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do y'all feel ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Shrayas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLvERZQSok&list=PLLj6w0Thbv02lEXIDVO46kotA_tv_8_us#t=1311
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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