From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Sun Apr  3 02:49:55 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:49:55 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website
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Hello Brandon,

I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers, and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30 minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.

Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think that offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good idea. Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no quiet room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open Spaces room for that purpose.

Thank you!
Anna




> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
> 
> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
> 
> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are not a good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people retreat to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas in the venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round tables out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to Portland things.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
> 
> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website next week.
> 
> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit into the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m not sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a good idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room for 3 days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but I don?t have anything against it.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Anna
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <k.kieczkowska at gmail.com <mailto:k.kieczkowska at gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter. You can find it in this document:
>> 
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing>
>> 
>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to contribute. I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms, and the space for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want something like that?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Kinga
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces at python.org>
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces>
> 
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> 
> 
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> 
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From pycon.brandon at gmail.com  Sun Apr  3 12:50:00 2016
From: pycon.brandon at gmail.com (Brandon Rhodes)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 12:50:00 -0400
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website
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Let?s ask Ewa! :)

Ewa, has PyCon in the past ever had a quiet room? Though Anna does not
think that a quiet room would quite fit the mission of the Open Spaces
rooms, she raises the point that hotels are quite far away this year for
many attendees, and that she has seen quiet rooms be very much appreciated
at other conferences.

My impression, though, is that during the three main conference days we are
fully occupying every single room that the Conference Center has ceded to
us, and that we have none left to allocate. Is that correct ? that if 2016
is to have a quiet room at all, that allocating an Open Space room is our
only way there?

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello Brandon,
>
> I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a
> conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it
> is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used
> for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers,
> and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step
> away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe
> about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that
> PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and
> would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30
> minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the
> same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.
>
> Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think that
> offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good idea.
> Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no quiet
> room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open Spaces
> room for that purpose.
>
> Thank you!
> Anna
>
>
>
>
> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
>
> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
>
> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are not a
> good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people retreat
> to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas in the
> venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round tables
> out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to Portland
> things.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
>>
>> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website
>> next week.
>>
>> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit into
>> the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m not
>> sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a good
>> idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room for 3
>> days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most
>> likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if
>> an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but
>> I don?t have anything against it.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <k.kieczkowska at gmail.com
>> >:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we
>> already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter.
>> You can find it in this document:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to contribute.
>> I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms, and the space
>> for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want something like
>> that?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kinga
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Brandon Rhodes
> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>
>
>


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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Mon Apr  4 06:34:44 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 12:34:44 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website
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Thank you, Brandon! :)

Just to add a little more information: We had a quiet room at DjangoCon US last year which also functioned as the speaker lounge and it was very much appreciated not only by speakers but also by others who just needed some quiet time for a few minutes. At DjangoCon US the convention center was directly connected to the conference hotel and about 50% of people still seemed to prefer using the quiet room instead of retreating back to their hotel room. At DjangoCon Europe, which I just returned from yesterday, they also had a quiet room which doubled as the speaker room. Besides speakers I saw mothers nursing their babies in there, people who just needed a short break, and people who needed to concentrate in order to get some work done.

The big difference between a public area for people to sit down and relax and a quiet room is simply that a quiet room allows you to close the door behind you and that people who enter the room know it?s an area where people want to be left in quiet for however long they decide to stay in there whereas in a public sitting area people come by and want to chat so it doesn?t have the same effect.

I just checked the distance between the conference center and me and Kinga?s hotel, which seems to be a 7 minute walk so for us it would be no big deal to walk over to our room, spend some quiet time there, and come back to the hotel, we could probably do this within an hour. Other hotels however might be further away and I know quite a few people who are staying at AirBnBs so for them to get back to their accommodations would take significantly longer. 

For me at each conference there comes a time where I hit my ?people limit? and need to retreat to a quiet space as soon as possible and I know a lot of people who feel the same way so I do believe that a designated quiet room at PyCon would be an excellent idea and very much appreciated by a lot of attendees.

If there are not other rooms, would be it be possible to turn one of the Open Spaces rooms into a quiet room? I know this is not an ideal solution but having a quiet room would be important to me so it might be worth going that route.

Thank you, Brandon and Ewa!

Warm regards,
Anna

> Am 03.04.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
> 
> Let?s ask Ewa! :)
> 
> Ewa, has PyCon in the past ever had a quiet room? Though Anna does not think that a quiet room would quite fit the mission of the Open Spaces rooms, she raises the point that hotels are quite far away this year for many attendees, and that she has seen quiet rooms be very much appreciated at other conferences.
> 
> My impression, though, is that during the three main conference days we are fully occupying every single room that the Conference Center has ceded to us, and that we have none left to allocate. Is that correct ? that if 2016 is to have a quiet room at all, that allocating an Open Space room is our only way there?
> 
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
> Hello Brandon,
> 
> I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers, and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30 minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.
> 
> Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think that offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good idea. Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no quiet room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open Spaces room for that purpose.
> 
> Thank you!
> Anna
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
>> 
>> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are not a good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people retreat to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas in the venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round tables out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to Portland things.
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
>> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
>> 
>> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website next week.
>> 
>> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit into the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m not sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a good idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room for 3 days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but I don?t have anything against it.
>> 
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <k.kieczkowska at gmail.com <mailto:k.kieczkowska at gmail.com>>:
>>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter. You can find it in this document:
>>> 
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing>
>>> 
>>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to contribute. I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms, and the space for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want something like that?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kinga
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces at python.org>
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces>
>> 
>> 
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>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Brandon Rhodes
>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
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From hobsonlane at gmail.com  Mon Apr  4 07:14:57 2016
From: hobsonlane at gmail.com (Hobson Lane)
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:14:57 +0000
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+1 for quiet spaces. Like white space in graphic design, it's invisible and
often indispensable. For myself, I've often found quiet among the unused
Open Space rooms, tutorial rooms, or even semi-private corners of the booth
spaces. But I can understand how having a dedicated location for quiet
could be vital for many people. Just the knowledge that it's there can be
reassuring to speakers with stage fright or new conference attendees that
feel overwhelmed.

Might it work to reserve a Quiet Open Space room with reservation cards,
and then, during the conference, consider taking down a few reservation
cards if the other rooms are getting close to 100% utilized? Especially if
the quiet space isn't getting comparable usage. Basically the Open Space
coordinators could adapt to the usage trends in real time. And since Quiet
has at least 2 advocates on the OS committee, I think they'd not get
squeezed off the schedule.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:40 AM Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Thank you, Brandon! :)
>
> Just to add a little more information: We had a quiet room at DjangoCon US
> last year which also functioned as the speaker lounge and it was very much
> appreciated not only by speakers but also by others who just needed some
> quiet time for a few minutes. At DjangoCon US the convention center was
> directly connected to the conference hotel and about 50% of people still
> seemed to prefer using the quiet room instead of retreating back to their
> hotel room. At DjangoCon Europe, which I just returned from yesterday, they
> also had a quiet room which doubled as the speaker room. Besides speakers I
> saw mothers nursing their babies in there, people who just needed a short
> break, and people who needed to concentrate in order to get some work done.
>
> The big difference between a public area for people to sit down and relax
> and a quiet room is simply that a quiet room allows you to close the door
> behind you and that people who enter the room know it?s an area where
> people want to be left in quiet for however long they decide to stay in
> there whereas in a public sitting area people come by and want to chat so
> it doesn?t have the same effect.
>
> I just checked the distance between the conference center and me and
> Kinga?s hotel, which seems to be a 7 minute walk so for us it would be no
> big deal to walk over to our room, spend some quiet time there, and come
> back to the hotel, we could probably do this within an hour. Other hotels
> however might be further away and I know quite a few people who are staying
> at AirBnBs so for them to get back to their accommodations would take
> significantly longer.
>
> For me at each conference there comes a time where I hit my ?people limit?
> and need to retreat to a quiet space as soon as possible and I know a lot
> of people who feel the same way so I do believe that a designated quiet
> room at PyCon would be an excellent idea and very much appreciated by a lot
> of attendees.
>
> If there are not other rooms, would be it be possible to turn one of the
> Open Spaces rooms into a quiet room? I know this is not an ideal solution
> but having a quiet room would be important to me so it might be worth going
> that route.
>
> Thank you, Brandon and Ewa!
>
> Warm regards,
> Anna
>
> Am 03.04.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
>
> Let?s ask Ewa! :)
>
> Ewa, has PyCon in the past ever had a quiet room? Though Anna does not
> think that a quiet room would quite fit the mission of the Open Spaces
> rooms, she raises the point that hotels are quite far away this year for
> many attendees, and that she has seen quiet rooms be very much appreciated
> at other conferences.
>
> My impression, though, is that during the three main conference days we
> are fully occupying every single room that the Conference Center has ceded
> to us, and that we have none left to allocate. Is that correct ? that if
> 2016 is to have a quiet room at all, that allocating an Open Space room is
> our only way there?
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello Brandon,
>>
>> I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a
>> conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it
>> is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used
>> for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers,
>> and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step
>> away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe
>> about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that
>> PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and
>> would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30
>> minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the
>> same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.
>>
>> Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think that
>> offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good idea.
>> Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no quiet
>> room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open Spaces
>> room for that purpose.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Anna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
>>
>> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are not
>> a good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people retreat
>> to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas in the
>> venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round tables
>> out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to Portland
>> things.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
>>>
>>> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website
>>> next week.
>>>
>>> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit into
>>> the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m not
>>> sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a good
>>> idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room for 3
>>> days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most
>>> likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if
>>> an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but
>>> I don?t have anything against it.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Anna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <
>>> k.kieczkowska at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we
>>> already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter.
>>> You can find it in this document:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to
>>> contribute. I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms,
>>> and the space for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want
>>> something like that?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kinga
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Mon Apr  4 07:28:57 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 13:28:57 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website
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The idea with the reservation cards for a Quiet Open Space and adjusting them as rooms fill up is excellent. Thank you, Hobson!

Warm regards,
Anna



> Am 04.04.2016 um 13:14 schrieb Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com>:
> 
> +1 for quiet spaces. Like white space in graphic design, it's invisible and often indispensable. For myself, I've often found quiet among the unused Open Space rooms, tutorial rooms, or even semi-private corners of the booth spaces. But I can understand how having a dedicated location for quiet could be vital for many people. Just the knowledge that it's there can be reassuring to speakers with stage fright or new conference attendees that feel overwhelmed.
> 
> Might it work to reserve a Quiet Open Space room with reservation cards, and then, during the conference, consider taking down a few reservation cards if the other rooms are getting close to 100% utilized? Especially if the quiet space isn't getting comparable usage. Basically the Open Space coordinators could adapt to the usage trends in real time. And since Quiet has at least 2 advocates on the OS committee, I think they'd not get squeezed off the schedule.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:40 AM Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
> Thank you, Brandon! :)
> 
> Just to add a little more information: We had a quiet room at DjangoCon US last year which also functioned as the speaker lounge and it was very much appreciated not only by speakers but also by others who just needed some quiet time for a few minutes. At DjangoCon US the convention center was directly connected to the conference hotel and about 50% of people still seemed to prefer using the quiet room instead of retreating back to their hotel room. At DjangoCon Europe, which I just returned from yesterday, they also had a quiet room which doubled as the speaker room. Besides speakers I saw mothers nursing their babies in there, people who just needed a short break, and people who needed to concentrate in order to get some work done.
> 
> The big difference between a public area for people to sit down and relax and a quiet room is simply that a quiet room allows you to close the door behind you and that people who enter the room know it?s an area where people want to be left in quiet for however long they decide to stay in there whereas in a public sitting area people come by and want to chat so it doesn?t have the same effect.
> 
> I just checked the distance between the conference center and me and Kinga?s hotel, which seems to be a 7 minute walk so for us it would be no big deal to walk over to our room, spend some quiet time there, and come back to the hotel, we could probably do this within an hour. Other hotels however might be further away and I know quite a few people who are staying at AirBnBs so for them to get back to their accommodations would take significantly longer. 
> 
> For me at each conference there comes a time where I hit my ?people limit? and need to retreat to a quiet space as soon as possible and I know a lot of people who feel the same way so I do believe that a designated quiet room at PyCon would be an excellent idea and very much appreciated by a lot of attendees.
> 
> If there are not other rooms, would be it be possible to turn one of the Open Spaces rooms into a quiet room? I know this is not an ideal solution but having a quiet room would be important to me so it might be worth going that route.
> 
> Thank you, Brandon and Ewa!
> 
> Warm regards,
> Anna
> 
>> Am 03.04.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> Let?s ask Ewa! :)
>> 
>> Ewa, has PyCon in the past ever had a quiet room? Though Anna does not think that a quiet room would quite fit the mission of the Open Spaces rooms, she raises the point that hotels are quite far away this year for many attendees, and that she has seen quiet rooms be very much appreciated at other conferences.
>> 
>> My impression, though, is that during the three main conference days we are fully occupying every single room that the Conference Center has ceded to us, and that we have none left to allocate. Is that correct ? that if 2016 is to have a quiet room at all, that allocating an Open Space room is our only way there?
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
>> Hello Brandon,
>> 
>> I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers, and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30 minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.
>> 
>> Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think that offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good idea. Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no quiet room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open Spaces room for that purpose.
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> Anna
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>>:
>>> 
>>> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
>>> 
>>> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are not a good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people retreat to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas in the venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round tables out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to Portland things.
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
>>> 
>>> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website next week.
>>> 
>>> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit into the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m not sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a good idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room for 3 days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but I don?t have anything against it.
>>> 
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Anna
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <k.kieczkowska at gmail.com <mailto:k.kieczkowska at gmail.com>>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter. You can find it in this document:
>>>> 
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing>
>>>> 
>>>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to contribute. I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms, and the space for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want something like that?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Kinga
>>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Brandon Rhodes
>>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>
>> 
>> 
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From ewa at python.org  Mon Apr  4 11:26:55 2016
From: ewa at python.org (Ewa Jodlowska)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 10:26:55 -0500
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website
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Hobson's idea is a great one and I do like that type of "live" monitoring.
TBH, in the last few years a lot of the open space has gone unused :(

When I booked Portland's contract, we added in a 6th breakout room because
in Santa Clara we were doing 6 tracks instead of the now-norm of 5 tracks.

I do have a huge room that I have left off from use - it was free for us
and the convention center cannot do much with it because we are occupying
almost the entire building. If you like, we can setup some rounds in there
- maybe 10 rounds of 8 chairs - and reserve it for quiet space. It is only
available May 30 - June 1. On the large schedule by registration - I would
just add "Quiet room is Portland Ballroom xxx" instead of allowing people
to place cards down at various times.

Let me know how you would like to proceed.

Best regards,

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

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> The idea with the reservation cards for a Quiet Open Space and adjusting
> them as rooms fill up is excellent. Thank you, Hobson!
>
> Warm regards,
> Anna
>
>
>
> Am 04.04.2016 um 13:14 schrieb Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com>:
>
> +1 for quiet spaces. Like white space in graphic design, it's invisible
> and often indispensable. For myself, I've often found quiet among the
> unused Open Space rooms, tutorial rooms, or even semi-private corners of
> the booth spaces. But I can understand how having a dedicated location for
> quiet could be vital for many people. Just the knowledge that it's there
> can be reassuring to speakers with stage fright or new conference attendees
> that feel overwhelmed.
>
> Might it work to reserve a Quiet Open Space room with reservation cards,
> and then, during the conference, consider taking down a few reservation
> cards if the other rooms are getting close to 100% utilized? Especially if
> the quiet space isn't getting comparable usage. Basically the Open Space
> coordinators could adapt to the usage trends in real time. And since Quiet
> has at least 2 advocates on the OS committee, I think they'd not get
> squeezed off the schedule.
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:40 AM Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Brandon! :)
>>
>> Just to add a little more information: We had a quiet room at DjangoCon
>> US last year which also functioned as the speaker lounge and it was very
>> much appreciated not only by speakers but also by others who just needed
>> some quiet time for a few minutes. At DjangoCon US the convention center
>> was directly connected to the conference hotel and about 50% of people
>> still seemed to prefer using the quiet room instead of retreating back to
>> their hotel room. At DjangoCon Europe, which I just returned from
>> yesterday, they also had a quiet room which doubled as the speaker room.
>> Besides speakers I saw mothers nursing their babies in there, people who
>> just needed a short break, and people who needed to concentrate in order to
>> get some work done.
>>
>> The big difference between a public area for people to sit down and relax
>> and a quiet room is simply that a quiet room allows you to close the door
>> behind you and that people who enter the room know it?s an area where
>> people want to be left in quiet for however long they decide to stay in
>> there whereas in a public sitting area people come by and want to chat so
>> it doesn?t have the same effect.
>>
>> I just checked the distance between the conference center and me and
>> Kinga?s hotel, which seems to be a 7 minute walk so for us it would be no
>> big deal to walk over to our room, spend some quiet time there, and come
>> back to the hotel, we could probably do this within an hour. Other hotels
>> however might be further away and I know quite a few people who are staying
>> at AirBnBs so for them to get back to their accommodations would take
>> significantly longer.
>>
>> For me at each conference there comes a time where I hit my ?people
>> limit? and need to retreat to a quiet space as soon as possible and I know
>> a lot of people who feel the same way so I do believe that a designated
>> quiet room at PyCon would be an excellent idea and very much appreciated by
>> a lot of attendees.
>>
>> If there are not other rooms, would be it be possible to turn one of the
>> Open Spaces rooms into a quiet room? I know this is not an ideal solution
>> but having a quiet room would be important to me so it might be worth going
>> that route.
>>
>> Thank you, Brandon and Ewa!
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>>
>> Am 03.04.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Let?s ask Ewa! :)
>>
>> Ewa, has PyCon in the past ever had a quiet room? Though Anna does not
>> think that a quiet room would quite fit the mission of the Open Spaces
>> rooms, she raises the point that hotels are quite far away this year for
>> many attendees, and that she has seen quiet rooms be very much appreciated
>> at other conferences.
>>
>> My impression, though, is that during the three main conference days we
>> are fully occupying every single room that the Conference Center has ceded
>> to us, and that we have none left to allocate. Is that correct ? that if
>> 2016 is to have a quiet room at all, that allocating an Open Space room is
>> our only way there?
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Brandon,
>>>
>>> I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a
>>> conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it
>>> is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used
>>> for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers,
>>> and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step
>>> away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe
>>> about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that
>>> PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and
>>> would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30
>>> minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the
>>> same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.
>>>
>>> Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think that
>>> offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good idea.
>>> Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no quiet
>>> room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open Spaces
>>> room for that purpose.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>> Anna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
>>>
>>> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are not
>>> a good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people retreat
>>> to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas in the
>>> venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round tables
>>> out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to Portland
>>> things.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
>>>>
>>>> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website
>>>> next week.
>>>>
>>>> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit
>>>> into the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m
>>>> not sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a
>>>> good idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room
>>>> for 3 days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most
>>>> likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if
>>>> an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but
>>>> I don?t have anything against it.
>>>>
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>> Anna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <
>>>> k.kieczkowska at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we
>>>> already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter.
>>>> You can find it in this document:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>
>>>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to
>>>> contribute. I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms,
>>>> and the space for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want
>>>> something like that?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Kinga
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brandon Rhodes
>>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brandon Rhodes
>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>
>
>
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From pycon.brandon at gmail.com  Mon Apr  4 11:36:50 2016
From: pycon.brandon at gmail.com (Brandon Rhodes)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:36:50 -0400
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website
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And, the big question: which of us is going to spring for the sign? :)

http://www.mysecuritysign.com/quiet-zone-sign/sku-k-9947

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Ewa Jodlowska <ewa at python.org> wrote:

> Hobson's idea is a great one and I do like that type of "live" monitoring.
> TBH, in the last few years a lot of the open space has gone unused :(
>
> When I booked Portland's contract, we added in a 6th breakout room because
> in Santa Clara we were doing 6 tracks instead of the now-norm of 5 tracks.
>
> I do have a huge room that I have left off from use - it was free for us
> and the convention center cannot do much with it because we are occupying
> almost the entire building. If you like, we can setup some rounds in there
> - maybe 10 rounds of 8 chairs - and reserve it for quiet space. It is only
> available May 30 - June 1. On the large schedule by registration - I would
> just add "Quiet room is Portland Ballroom xxx" instead of allowing people
> to place cards down at various times.
>
> Let me know how you would like to proceed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ewa
> Director of Operations
> Python Software Foundation
> Cell: 415-319-5237
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> The idea with the reservation cards for a Quiet Open Space and adjusting
>> them as rooms fill up is excellent. Thank you, Hobson!
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 04.04.2016 um 13:14 schrieb Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com>:
>>
>> +1 for quiet spaces. Like white space in graphic design, it's invisible
>> and often indispensable. For myself, I've often found quiet among the
>> unused Open Space rooms, tutorial rooms, or even semi-private corners of
>> the booth spaces. But I can understand how having a dedicated location for
>> quiet could be vital for many people. Just the knowledge that it's there
>> can be reassuring to speakers with stage fright or new conference attendees
>> that feel overwhelmed.
>>
>> Might it work to reserve a Quiet Open Space room with reservation cards,
>> and then, during the conference, consider taking down a few reservation
>> cards if the other rooms are getting close to 100% utilized? Especially if
>> the quiet space isn't getting comparable usage. Basically the Open Space
>> coordinators could adapt to the usage trends in real time. And since Quiet
>> has at least 2 advocates on the OS committee, I think they'd not get
>> squeezed off the schedule.
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:40 AM Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you, Brandon! :)
>>>
>>> Just to add a little more information: We had a quiet room at DjangoCon
>>> US last year which also functioned as the speaker lounge and it was very
>>> much appreciated not only by speakers but also by others who just needed
>>> some quiet time for a few minutes. At DjangoCon US the convention center
>>> was directly connected to the conference hotel and about 50% of people
>>> still seemed to prefer using the quiet room instead of retreating back to
>>> their hotel room. At DjangoCon Europe, which I just returned from
>>> yesterday, they also had a quiet room which doubled as the speaker room.
>>> Besides speakers I saw mothers nursing their babies in there, people who
>>> just needed a short break, and people who needed to concentrate in order to
>>> get some work done.
>>>
>>> The big difference between a public area for people to sit down and
>>> relax and a quiet room is simply that a quiet room allows you to close the
>>> door behind you and that people who enter the room know it?s an area where
>>> people want to be left in quiet for however long they decide to stay in
>>> there whereas in a public sitting area people come by and want to chat so
>>> it doesn?t have the same effect.
>>>
>>> I just checked the distance between the conference center and me and
>>> Kinga?s hotel, which seems to be a 7 minute walk so for us it would be no
>>> big deal to walk over to our room, spend some quiet time there, and come
>>> back to the hotel, we could probably do this within an hour. Other hotels
>>> however might be further away and I know quite a few people who are staying
>>> at AirBnBs so for them to get back to their accommodations would take
>>> significantly longer.
>>>
>>> For me at each conference there comes a time where I hit my ?people
>>> limit? and need to retreat to a quiet space as soon as possible and I know
>>> a lot of people who feel the same way so I do believe that a designated
>>> quiet room at PyCon would be an excellent idea and very much appreciated by
>>> a lot of attendees.
>>>
>>> If there are not other rooms, would be it be possible to turn one of the
>>> Open Spaces rooms into a quiet room? I know this is not an ideal solution
>>> but having a quiet room would be important to me so it might be worth going
>>> that route.
>>>
>>> Thank you, Brandon and Ewa!
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Anna
>>>
>>> Am 03.04.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Let?s ask Ewa! :)
>>>
>>> Ewa, has PyCon in the past ever had a quiet room? Though Anna does not
>>> think that a quiet room would quite fit the mission of the Open Spaces
>>> rooms, she raises the point that hotels are quite far away this year for
>>> many attendees, and that she has seen quiet rooms be very much appreciated
>>> at other conferences.
>>>
>>> My impression, though, is that during the three main conference days we
>>> are fully occupying every single room that the Conference Center has ceded
>>> to us, and that we have none left to allocate. Is that correct ? that if
>>> 2016 is to have a quiet room at all, that allocating an Open Space room is
>>> our only way there?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Brandon,
>>>>
>>>> I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a
>>>> conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it
>>>> is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used
>>>> for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers,
>>>> and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step
>>>> away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe
>>>> about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that
>>>> PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and
>>>> would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30
>>>> minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the
>>>> same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think
>>>> that offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good
>>>> idea. Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no
>>>> quiet room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open
>>>> Spaces room for that purpose.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> Anna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>>>> >:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
>>>>
>>>> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are
>>>> not a good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people
>>>> retreat to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas
>>>> in the venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round
>>>> tables out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to
>>>> Portland things.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
>>>>>
>>>>> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website
>>>>> next week.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit
>>>>> into the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m
>>>>> not sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a
>>>>> good idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room
>>>>> for 3 days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most
>>>>> likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if
>>>>> an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but
>>>>> I don?t have anything against it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>> Anna
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <
>>>>> k.kieczkowska at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we
>>>>> already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter.
>>>>> You can find it in this document:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>
>>>>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to
>>>>> contribute. I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms,
>>>>> and the space for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want
>>>>> something like that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Kinga
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Brandon Rhodes
>>>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>>>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brandon Rhodes
>>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
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>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>>
>>
>>
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>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>
>>
>
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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Mon Apr  4 14:48:34 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 20:48:34 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website
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That is a great solution, Ewa! And I like the sign idea, Brandon ;)

Anna




> Am 04.04.2016 um 17:36 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
> 
> And, the big question: which of us is going to spring for the sign? :)
> 
> http://www.mysecuritysign.com/quiet-zone-sign/sku-k-9947 <http://www.mysecuritysign.com/quiet-zone-sign/sku-k-9947>
> 
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Ewa Jodlowska <ewa at python.org <mailto:ewa at python.org>> wrote:
> Hobson's idea is a great one and I do like that type of "live" monitoring. TBH, in the last few years a lot of the open space has gone unused :( 
> 
> When I booked Portland's contract, we added in a 6th breakout room because in Santa Clara we were doing 6 tracks instead of the now-norm of 5 tracks.
>   
> I do have a huge room that I have left off from use - it was free for us and the convention center cannot do much with it because we are occupying almost the entire building. If you like, we can setup some rounds in there - maybe 10 rounds of 8 chairs - and reserve it for quiet space. It is only available May 30 - June 1. On the large schedule by registration - I would just add "Quiet room is Portland Ballroom xxx" instead of allowing people to place cards down at various times.
> 
> Let me know how you would like to proceed.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ewa
> Director of Operations
> Python Software Foundation
> Cell: 415-319-5237 <tel:415-319-5237>
> 
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
> The idea with the reservation cards for a Quiet Open Space and adjusting them as rooms fill up is excellent. Thank you, Hobson!
> 
> Warm regards,
> Anna
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 04.04.2016 um 13:14 schrieb Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com <mailto:hobsonlane at gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> +1 for quiet spaces. Like white space in graphic design, it's invisible and often indispensable. For myself, I've often found quiet among the unused Open Space rooms, tutorial rooms, or even semi-private corners of the booth spaces. But I can understand how having a dedicated location for quiet could be vital for many people. Just the knowledge that it's there can be reassuring to speakers with stage fright or new conference attendees that feel overwhelmed.
>> 
>> Might it work to reserve a Quiet Open Space room with reservation cards, and then, during the conference, consider taking down a few reservation cards if the other rooms are getting close to 100% utilized? Especially if the quiet space isn't getting comparable usage. Basically the Open Space coordinators could adapt to the usage trends in real time. And since Quiet has at least 2 advocates on the OS committee, I think they'd not get squeezed off the schedule.
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, 3:40 AM Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
>> Thank you, Brandon! :)
>> 
>> Just to add a little more information: We had a quiet room at DjangoCon US last year which also functioned as the speaker lounge and it was very much appreciated not only by speakers but also by others who just needed some quiet time for a few minutes. At DjangoCon US the convention center was directly connected to the conference hotel and about 50% of people still seemed to prefer using the quiet room instead of retreating back to their hotel room. At DjangoCon Europe, which I just returned from yesterday, they also had a quiet room which doubled as the speaker room. Besides speakers I saw mothers nursing their babies in there, people who just needed a short break, and people who needed to concentrate in order to get some work done.
>> 
>> The big difference between a public area for people to sit down and relax and a quiet room is simply that a quiet room allows you to close the door behind you and that people who enter the room know it?s an area where people want to be left in quiet for however long they decide to stay in there whereas in a public sitting area people come by and want to chat so it doesn?t have the same effect.
>> 
>> I just checked the distance between the conference center and me and Kinga?s hotel, which seems to be a 7 minute walk so for us it would be no big deal to walk over to our room, spend some quiet time there, and come back to the hotel, we could probably do this within an hour. Other hotels however might be further away and I know quite a few people who are staying at AirBnBs so for them to get back to their accommodations would take significantly longer. 
>> 
>> For me at each conference there comes a time where I hit my ?people limit? and need to retreat to a quiet space as soon as possible and I know a lot of people who feel the same way so I do believe that a designated quiet room at PyCon would be an excellent idea and very much appreciated by a lot of attendees.
>> 
>> If there are not other rooms, would be it be possible to turn one of the Open Spaces rooms into a quiet room? I know this is not an ideal solution but having a quiet room would be important to me so it might be worth going that route.
>> 
>> Thank you, Brandon and Ewa!
>> 
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>> 
>>> Am 03.04.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>>:
>>> 
>>> Let?s ask Ewa! :)
>>> 
>>> Ewa, has PyCon in the past ever had a quiet room? Though Anna does not think that a quiet room would quite fit the mission of the Open Spaces rooms, she raises the point that hotels are quite far away this year for many attendees, and that she has seen quiet rooms be very much appreciated at other conferences.
>>> 
>>> My impression, though, is that during the three main conference days we are fully occupying every single room that the Conference Center has ceded to us, and that we have none left to allocate. Is that correct ? that if 2016 is to have a quiet room at all, that allocating an Open Space room is our only way there?
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>> Hello Brandon,
>>> 
>>> I am surprised that there will be no quiet room at PyCon. When a conference had a quiet room I always really appreciated it and I think it is important. There was a quiet room at DjangoCon Europe and it was used for people just needing to take a break to get work done, nursing mothers, and people like me who get overwhelmed sometimes and just needed to step away for half an hour. I talked to a few people here at DjangoCon Europe about the need of a quiet room and they were all really surprised too that PyCon is not planning on having one as they all think it?s important and would be appreciated. Retreating back to your hotel when you just need 30 minutes in quiet is often inconvenient and public seating areas are not the same as a dedicated quiet room with a door that you can shut.
>>> 
>>> Is there any way a quiet room could be arranged? If not, I do think that offering one of the Open Spaces rooms as a quiet room would be a good idea. Some people here at DjangoCon Europe mentioned that if there was no quiet room at PyCon they would be willing to go ahead and block an Open Spaces room for that purpose.
>>> 
>>> Thank you!
>>> Anna
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 31.03.2016 um 14:57 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>>:
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, thank you, Kinga!
>>>> 
>>>> I agree, Anna, that childcare, Portland tours, and a quiet space are not a good fit and could be usefully removed from the list. Most people retreat to their hotels for quiet; there will additionally be seating areas in the venue where people can sit with laptops; and one of the big round tables out in the public area could be used for coordinating visits to Portland things.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 4:17 AM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
>>>> Thank you Kinga for compiling this list!
>>>> 
>>>> If no one has to add anything to it we can add it to the PyCon website next week.
>>>> 
>>>> I think child care and quiet rooms are important but they don?t fit into the scope of the open spaces. There will be child care at PyCon. I?m not sure if there will be something like a quiet room but it would be a good idea to have one. i?m just not sure that blocking an open spaces room for 3 days to use it as a quiet room is the best idea. There will also most likely be something like an ?explore Portland? program so I?m not sure if an open space like that would be necessary or make a whole lot of sense but I don?t have anything against it.
>>>> 
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>> Anna
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Ki?czkowska <k.kieczkowska at gmail.com <mailto:k.kieczkowska at gmail.com>>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I compiled a list of ideas for open spaces topics, based on what we already had, what was done last year, and what people suggested on Twitter. You can find it in this document:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9Nk0/edit?usp=sharing>
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you have any suggestions / more ideas, please feel free to contribute. I'd also love your feedback on the childcare and quiet rooms, and the space for people to organise tours of Portland - would we want something like that?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Kinga
>>>>> 
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces at python.org>
>>>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces>
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Brandon Rhodes
>>>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>>>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
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>>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Mon Apr 25 15:38:42 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:38:42 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
Message-ID: <6F57F4B4-348E-4104-BC0F-24E545A23AFF@gmx.de>

Hey everyone!

PyCon is now only a little more than a month away, it?s crazy how time flies :)
We have a few more things to do before PyCon and I just wanted to check in with everyone to see how things were going.

Brandon, I wrote this blog post https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit and a couple of tweets https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit. When do you think would be a good time for the blog post to go up? Would you mind publishing the blog post and the tweets for us or is there a way for us to get access to the PyCon blog and Twitter accounts?

Hobson, how are you doing regarding contacting people/groups and encouraging them to facilitate an open space? I think it would be great if we could get those emails out by mid-May. I will start traveling May 12th and I would feel much better starting my travels for OSCON and PyCon if I knew all of our open space prep is done :) 
Please let Kinga and I know if you need help with anything. Kinga did a great job compiling a list of topic suggestions, which I added to the PyCon website https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/.

Kinga and Hobson, I think it would be great if we met on Sunday, May 29th (maybe in the late afternoon, right before the opening reception) to have a little ?briefing? in person to discuss the upcoming days of open spaces and anything else that may be relevant. The date is totally flexible. Saturday afternoon/evening may work as well and I promise it won?t take long. Kinga is flying in Saturday morning and I will fly in Saturday afternoon. I just wanted to bring this up so both of you can mark your calendars :) 

We will have to put the open spaces boards up at 7am every morning. Kinga and I discussed taking turns so each one of us would only have to be there so early once instead of all 3 days. We also discussed putting one person in charge for each day, meaning one person would monitor the board for day one, a second person would take day two, etc. What are your thoughts on this?

Warm regards,
Anna


---------------------------------
You are appreciated.
You are enough.
You matter.
You are not alone.




From pycon.brandon at gmail.com  Mon Apr 25 17:29:32 2016
From: pycon.brandon at gmail.com (Brandon Rhodes)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 17:29:32 -0400
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
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Thanks for writing up the blog post, Anna! I have just added you as an
author for the blog ? would you mind pasting the text into Blogger, and
then I can publish it later this week?

The only paragraph I have a question about is the one about emailing to
reserve a space. The blog post would read more positively and smoothly, as
it talks about what we *are* doing with open spaces, if it did not stop to
say something that we are *not* doing with them. I suspect that we can just
leave that paragraph out? That way, the post would focus on what open
spaces are, what they do, and how to sign up, without any distractions
about how things used to be.

(But: have you been getting lots of emails asking to sign up an open space
ahead of time? How many? It would be worth leaving the paragraph in if you
are getting lots of emails and the blog post could maybe cut down on the
number that you have to answer in the future!)

Thanks again for writing it up!

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hey everyone!
>
> PyCon is now only a little more than a month away, it?s crazy how time
> flies :)
> We have a few more things to do before PyCon and I just wanted to check in
> with everyone to see how things were going.
>
> Brandon, I wrote this blog post
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit
> and a couple of tweets
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit.
> When do you think would be a good time for the blog post to go up? Would
> you mind publishing the blog post and the tweets for us or is there a way
> for us to get access to the PyCon blog and Twitter accounts?
>
> Hobson, how are you doing regarding contacting people/groups and
> encouraging them to facilitate an open space? I think it would be great if
> we could get those emails out by mid-May. I will start traveling May 12th
> and I would feel much better starting my travels for OSCON and PyCon if I
> knew all of our open space prep is done :)
> Please let Kinga and I know if you need help with anything. Kinga did a
> great job compiling a list of topic suggestions, which I added to the PyCon
> website https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/.
>
> Kinga and Hobson, I think it would be great if we met on Sunday, May 29th
> (maybe in the late afternoon, right before the opening reception) to have a
> little ?briefing? in person to discuss the upcoming days of open spaces and
> anything else that may be relevant. The date is totally flexible. Saturday
> afternoon/evening may work as well and I promise it won?t take long. Kinga
> is flying in Saturday morning and I will fly in Saturday afternoon. I just
> wanted to bring this up so both of you can mark your calendars :)
>
> We will have to put the open spaces boards up at 7am every morning. Kinga
> and I discussed taking turns so each one of us would only have to be there
> so early once instead of all 3 days. We also discussed putting one person
> in charge for each day, meaning one person would monitor the board for day
> one, a second person would take day two, etc. What are your thoughts on
> this?
>
> Warm regards,
> Anna
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> You are appreciated.
> You are enough.
> You matter.
> You are not alone.
>
>
>
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From hobsonlane at gmail.com  Mon Apr 25 18:23:37 2016
From: hobsonlane at gmail.com (Hobson Lane)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:23:37 -0700
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
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Hi Anna,

I haven't compiled the e-mail list yet, but will make sure you have a draft
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kDxgsM9taZc-Ii9b5HZI5dVhUsEAB3I2WNrsTjDgC-w/edit?usp=sharing>
by next Sunday (May 1) and a thorough list the following Sunday (May 8). My
understanding is that I should start with a clean slate and list contact
info for all PyCon attendees that I think would be interested in hosting an
Open Space. Do I have access to the list of registration e-mails or should
I just mine/crawl twitter (and my own memory) for orgs that mention Python
a lot and track down their e-mail addresses manually?

--Hobson
(503) 974-6274
gh <https://github.com/hobson/> twtr <https://twitter.com/hobsonlane> li
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/hobsonlane> g+
<http://plus.google.com/+HobsonLane/> so
<http://stackoverflow.com/users/623735/hobs>

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for writing up the blog post, Anna! I have just added you as an
> author for the blog ? would you mind pasting the text into Blogger, and
> then I can publish it later this week?
>
> The only paragraph I have a question about is the one about emailing to
> reserve a space. The blog post would read more positively and smoothly, as
> it talks about what we *are* doing with open spaces, if it did not stop
> to say something that we are *not* doing with them. I suspect that we can
> just leave that paragraph out? That way, the post would focus on what open
> spaces are, what they do, and how to sign up, without any distractions
> about how things used to be.
>
> (But: have you been getting lots of emails asking to sign up an open space
> ahead of time? How many? It would be worth leaving the paragraph in if you
> are getting lots of emails and the blog post could maybe cut down on the
> number that you have to answer in the future!)
>
> Thanks again for writing it up!
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone!
>>
>> PyCon is now only a little more than a month away, it?s crazy how time
>> flies :)
>> We have a few more things to do before PyCon and I just wanted to check
>> in with everyone to see how things were going.
>>
>> Brandon, I wrote this blog post
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit
>> and a couple of tweets
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit.
>> When do you think would be a good time for the blog post to go up? Would
>> you mind publishing the blog post and the tweets for us or is there a way
>> for us to get access to the PyCon blog and Twitter accounts?
>>
>> Hobson, how are you doing regarding contacting people/groups and
>> encouraging them to facilitate an open space? I think it would be great if
>> we could get those emails out by mid-May. I will start traveling May 12th
>> and I would feel much better starting my travels for OSCON and PyCon if I
>> knew all of our open space prep is done :)
>> Please let Kinga and I know if you need help with anything. Kinga did a
>> great job compiling a list of topic suggestions, which I added to the PyCon
>> website https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/.
>>
>> Kinga and Hobson, I think it would be great if we met on Sunday, May 29th
>> (maybe in the late afternoon, right before the opening reception) to have a
>> little ?briefing? in person to discuss the upcoming days of open spaces and
>> anything else that may be relevant. The date is totally flexible. Saturday
>> afternoon/evening may work as well and I promise it won?t take long. Kinga
>> is flying in Saturday morning and I will fly in Saturday afternoon. I just
>> wanted to bring this up so both of you can mark your calendars :)
>>
>> We will have to put the open spaces boards up at 7am every morning. Kinga
>> and I discussed taking turns so each one of us would only have to be there
>> so early once instead of all 3 days. We also discussed putting one person
>> in charge for each day, meaning one person would monitor the board for day
>> one, a second person would take day two, etc. What are your thoughts on
>> this?
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> You are appreciated.
>> You are enough.
>> You matter.
>> You are not alone.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Brandon Rhodes
> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>
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From ewa at python.org  Mon Apr 25 23:07:16 2016
From: ewa at python.org (Ewa Jodlowska)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 22:07:16 -0500
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
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Hi all,

We cannot supply a list of registrants.

Thanks
Ewa

On Monday, April 25, 2016, Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anna,
>
> I haven't compiled the e-mail list yet, but will make sure you have a
> draft
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kDxgsM9taZc-Ii9b5HZI5dVhUsEAB3I2WNrsTjDgC-w/edit?usp=sharing>
> by next Sunday (May 1) and a thorough list the following Sunday (May 8). My
> understanding is that I should start with a clean slate and list contact
> info for all PyCon attendees that I think would be interested in hosting an
> Open Space. Do I have access to the list of registration e-mails or should
> I just mine/crawl twitter (and my own memory) for orgs that mention Python
> a lot and track down their e-mail addresses manually?
>
> --Hobson
> (503) 974-6274
> gh <https://github.com/hobson/> twtr <https://twitter.com/hobsonlane> li
> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hobsonlane> g+
> <http://plus.google.com/+HobsonLane/> so
> <http://stackoverflow.com/users/623735/hobs>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','pycon.brandon at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for writing up the blog post, Anna! I have just added you as an
>> author for the blog ? would you mind pasting the text into Blogger, and
>> then I can publish it later this week?
>>
>> The only paragraph I have a question about is the one about emailing to
>> reserve a space. The blog post would read more positively and smoothly, as
>> it talks about what we *are* doing with open spaces, if it did not stop
>> to say something that we are *not* doing with them. I suspect that we
>> can just leave that paragraph out? That way, the post would focus on what
>> open spaces are, what they do, and how to sign up, without any distractions
>> about how things used to be.
>>
>> (But: have you been getting lots of emails asking to sign up an open
>> space ahead of time? How many? It would be worth leaving the paragraph in
>> if you are getting lots of emails and the blog post could maybe cut down on
>> the number that you have to answer in the future!)
>>
>> Thanks again for writing it up!
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ossanna16 at gmx.de');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey everyone!
>>>
>>> PyCon is now only a little more than a month away, it?s crazy how time
>>> flies :)
>>> We have a few more things to do before PyCon and I just wanted to check
>>> in with everyone to see how things were going.
>>>
>>> Brandon, I wrote this blog post
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit
>>> and a couple of tweets
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit.
>>> When do you think would be a good time for the blog post to go up? Would
>>> you mind publishing the blog post and the tweets for us or is there a way
>>> for us to get access to the PyCon blog and Twitter accounts?
>>>
>>> Hobson, how are you doing regarding contacting people/groups and
>>> encouraging them to facilitate an open space? I think it would be great if
>>> we could get those emails out by mid-May. I will start traveling May 12th
>>> and I would feel much better starting my travels for OSCON and PyCon if I
>>> knew all of our open space prep is done :)
>>> Please let Kinga and I know if you need help with anything. Kinga did a
>>> great job compiling a list of topic suggestions, which I added to the PyCon
>>> website https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/.
>>>
>>> Kinga and Hobson, I think it would be great if we met on Sunday, May
>>> 29th (maybe in the late afternoon, right before the opening reception) to
>>> have a little ?briefing? in person to discuss the upcoming days of open
>>> spaces and anything else that may be relevant. The date is totally
>>> flexible. Saturday afternoon/evening may work as well and I promise it
>>> won?t take long. Kinga is flying in Saturday morning and I will fly in
>>> Saturday afternoon. I just wanted to bring this up so both of you can mark
>>> your calendars :)
>>>
>>> We will have to put the open spaces boards up at 7am every morning.
>>> Kinga and I discussed taking turns so each one of us would only have to be
>>> there so early once instead of all 3 days. We also discussed putting one
>>> person in charge for each day, meaning one person would monitor the board
>>> for day one, a second person would take day two, etc. What are your
>>> thoughts on this?
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Anna
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------
>>> You are appreciated.
>>> You are enough.
>>> You matter.
>>> You are not alone.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Pycon-openspaces at python.org');>
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brandon Rhodes
>> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
>> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','pycon.brandon at gmail.com');>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Pycon-openspaces at python.org');>
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>
>>
>

-- 
Best regards,

Ewa
Director of Operations
Python Software Foundation
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From ewa at python.org  Tue Apr 26 08:41:25 2016
From: ewa at python.org (Ewa Jodlowska)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:41:25 -0500
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Hobson Lane <hobsonlane at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Ewa,
>
> Apologies if you've already addressed this question. That makes sense.
>

No apologies needed - for privacy reasons we cannot give out the list of
registration emails and historically we have avoided sending emails to our
attendees beyond one right before the conference. In that email though, we
will be sure to mention open spaces. If you want to draft up a short
paragraph for me to use, please do.


> Maybe you could consider having someone (or some python script) with
> access to the list filter out open space emails (or TLDs) that are not in
> the attendee email list. That way we could avoid the embarrassment of
> inviting folks to host open spaces who are unable to attend PyCon. Of
> course there's not much danger/harm in that until my list gets very long.
>

Sorry, but I do not understand what you are asking. I think you are asking
for us to search through pycon-reg at python.org emails for those that have
asked about open spaces. Is that correct? Sorry for missing the point.
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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Tue Apr 26 21:35:03 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 03:35:03 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
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Message-ID: <5179D876-7BED-4AC4-A495-623CDCC8DD18@gmx.de>

Hey Brandon!

Thank you for giving me access to the PyCon blog and for your suggestions regarding the blog post. I agree with you and I removed the paragraph about reserving a slot in advance. You are right that it sounded negative and we have not received any emails regarding the topic at all so it?s probably not necessary to mention this :)

I saved the blog post in Blogger. Please let me know if there?s anything else I can do.

Thank you so much for your help!
Anna

---------------------------------
You are appreciated.
You are enough.
You matter.
You are not alone.



> Am 25.04.2016 um 23:29 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
> 
> Thanks for writing up the blog post, Anna! I have just added you as an author for the blog ? would you mind pasting the text into Blogger, and then I can publish it later this week?
> 
> The only paragraph I have a question about is the one about emailing to reserve a space. The blog post would read more positively and smoothly, as it talks about what we are doing with open spaces, if it did not stop to say something that we are not doing with them. I suspect that we can just leave that paragraph out? That way, the post would focus on what open spaces are, what they do, and how to sign up, without any distractions about how things used to be.
> 
> (But: have you been getting lots of emails asking to sign up an open space ahead of time? How many? It would be worth leaving the paragraph in if you are getting lots of emails and the blog post could maybe cut down on the number that you have to answer in the future!)
> 
> Thanks again for writing it up!
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
> Hey everyone!
> 
> PyCon is now only a little more than a month away, it?s crazy how time flies :)
> We have a few more things to do before PyCon and I just wanted to check in with everyone to see how things were going.
> 
> Brandon, I wrote this blog post https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit> and a couple of tweets https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit>. When do you think would be a good time for the blog post to go up? Would you mind publishing the blog post and the tweets for us or is there a way for us to get access to the PyCon blog and Twitter accounts?
> 
> Hobson, how are you doing regarding contacting people/groups and encouraging them to facilitate an open space? I think it would be great if we could get those emails out by mid-May. I will start traveling May 12th and I would feel much better starting my travels for OSCON and PyCon if I knew all of our open space prep is done :)
> Please let Kinga and I know if you need help with anything. Kinga did a great job compiling a list of topic suggestions, which I added to the PyCon website https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/ <https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/>.
> 
> Kinga and Hobson, I think it would be great if we met on Sunday, May 29th (maybe in the late afternoon, right before the opening reception) to have a little ?briefing? in person to discuss the upcoming days of open spaces and anything else that may be relevant. The date is totally flexible. Saturday afternoon/evening may work as well and I promise it won?t take long. Kinga is flying in Saturday morning and I will fly in Saturday afternoon. I just wanted to bring this up so both of you can mark your calendars :)
> 
> We will have to put the open spaces boards up at 7am every morning. Kinga and I discussed taking turns so each one of us would only have to be there so early once instead of all 3 days. We also discussed putting one person in charge for each day, meaning one person would monitor the board for day one, a second person would take day two, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
> 
> Warm regards,
> Anna
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------
> You are appreciated.
> You are enough.
> You matter.
> You are not alone.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
> Pycon-openspaces at python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces at python.org>
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Brandon Rhodes
> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
> pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>
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From pycon.brandon at gmail.com  Wed Apr 27 07:41:17 2016
From: pycon.brandon at gmail.com (Brandon Rhodes)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:41:17 -0400
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
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Thank you, Anna, that's exactly what I needed! Thanks to the fact that you
pasted in the text, you will get credit when I hit "Post". I'll ping you
when the blog post is up ? probably today, but also possibly tomorrow!

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hey Brandon!
>
> Thank you for giving me access to the PyCon blog and for your suggestions
> regarding the blog post. I agree with you and I removed the paragraph about
> reserving a slot in advance. You are right that it sounded negative and we
> have not received any emails regarding the topic at all so it?s probably
> not necessary to mention this :)
>
> I saved the blog post in Blogger. Please let me know if there?s anything
> else I can do.
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
> Anna
>
> ---------------------------------
> You are appreciated.
> You are enough.
> You matter.
> You are not alone.
>
>
>
> Am 25.04.2016 um 23:29 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
>
> Thanks for writing up the blog post, Anna! I have just added you as an
> author for the blog ? would you mind pasting the text into Blogger, and
> then I can publish it later this week?
>
> The only paragraph I have a question about is the one about emailing to
> reserve a space. The blog post would read more positively and smoothly, as
> it talks about what we *are* doing with open spaces, if it did not stop
> to say something that we are *not* doing with them. I suspect that we can
> just leave that paragraph out? That way, the post would focus on what open
> spaces are, what they do, and how to sign up, without any distractions
> about how things used to be.
>
> (But: have you been getting lots of emails asking to sign up an open space
> ahead of time? How many? It would be worth leaving the paragraph in if you
> are getting lots of emails and the blog post could maybe cut down on the
> number that you have to answer in the future!)
>
> Thanks again for writing it up!
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone!
>>
>> PyCon is now only a little more than a month away, it?s crazy how time
>> flies :)
>> We have a few more things to do before PyCon and I just wanted to check
>> in with everyone to see how things were going.
>>
>> Brandon, I wrote this blog post
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit
>> and a couple of tweets
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit.
>> When do you think would be a good time for the blog post to go up? Would
>> you mind publishing the blog post and the tweets for us or is there a way
>> for us to get access to the PyCon blog and Twitter accounts?
>>
>> Hobson, how are you doing regarding contacting people/groups and
>> encouraging them to facilitate an open space? I think it would be great if
>> we could get those emails out by mid-May. I will start traveling May 12th
>> and I would feel much better starting my travels for OSCON and PyCon if I
>> knew all of our open space prep is done :)
>> Please let Kinga and I know if you need help with anything. Kinga did a
>> great job compiling a list of topic suggestions, which I added to the PyCon
>> website https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/.
>>
>> Kinga and Hobson, I think it would be great if we met on Sunday, May 29th
>> (maybe in the late afternoon, right before the opening reception) to have a
>> little ?briefing? in person to discuss the upcoming days of open spaces and
>> anything else that may be relevant. The date is totally flexible. Saturday
>> afternoon/evening may work as well and I promise it won?t take long. Kinga
>> is flying in Saturday morning and I will fly in Saturday afternoon. I just
>> wanted to bring this up so both of you can mark your calendars :)
>>
>> We will have to put the open spaces boards up at 7am every morning. Kinga
>> and I discussed taking turns so each one of us would only have to be there
>> so early once instead of all 3 days. We also discussed putting one person
>> in charge for each day, meaning one person would monitor the board for day
>> one, a second person would take day two, etc. What are your thoughts on
>> this?
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> You are appreciated.
>> You are enough.
>> You matter.
>> You are not alone.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
>> Pycon-openspaces at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pycon-openspaces
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Brandon Rhodes
> PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
> pycon.brandon at gmail.com
>
>
>


-- 
Brandon Rhodes
PyCon 2016 Conference Chair
pycon.brandon at gmail.com
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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Wed Apr 27 14:43:05 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 20:43:05 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Next up
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Thank you so much! :)

Anna

---------------------------------
You are appreciated.
You are enough.
You matter.
You are not alone.



> Am 27.04.2016 um 13:41 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com>:
> 
> Thank you, Anna, that's exactly what I needed! Thanks to the fact that you pasted in the text, you will get credit when I hit "Post". I'll ping you when the blog post is up ? probably today, but also possibly tomorrow!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
> Hey Brandon!
> 
> Thank you for giving me access to the PyCon blog and for your suggestions regarding the blog post. I agree with you and I removed the paragraph about reserving a slot in advance. You are right that it sounded negative and we have not received any emails regarding the topic at all so it?s probably not necessary to mention this :)
> 
> I saved the blog post in Blogger. Please let me know if there?s anything else I can do.
> 
> Thank you so much for your help!
> Anna
> 
> ---------------------------------
> You are appreciated.
> You are enough.
> You matter.
> You are not alone.
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 25.04.2016 um 23:29 schrieb Brandon Rhodes <pycon.brandon at gmail.com <mailto:pycon.brandon at gmail.com>>:
>> 
>> Thanks for writing up the blog post, Anna! I have just added you as an author for the blog ? would you mind pasting the text into Blogger, and then I can publish it later this week?
>> 
>> The only paragraph I have a question about is the one about emailing to reserve a space. The blog post would read more positively and smoothly, as it talks about what we are doing with open spaces, if it did not stop to say something that we are not doing with them. I suspect that we can just leave that paragraph out? That way, the post would focus on what open spaces are, what they do, and how to sign up, without any distractions about how things used to be.
>> 
>> (But: have you been getting lots of emails asking to sign up an open space ahead of time? How many? It would be worth leaving the paragraph in if you are getting lots of emails and the blog post could maybe cut down on the number that you have to answer in the future!)
>> 
>> Thanks again for writing it up!
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
>> Hey everyone!
>> 
>> PyCon is now only a little more than a month away, it?s crazy how time flies :)
>> We have a few more things to do before PyCon and I just wanted to check in with everyone to see how things were going.
>> 
>> Brandon, I wrote this blog post https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1262fTqWUTyGGfybVsoSFQj3fo2pyMxUV-GZ_dQkED4E/edit> and a couple of tweets https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/17DcNG-AJD0hsODHfMQBn3GdNCIsPvVNFigkYz7X0jOs/edit>. When do you think would be a good time for the blog post to go up? Would you mind publishing the blog post and the tweets for us or is there a way for us to get access to the PyCon blog and Twitter accounts?
>> 
>> Hobson, how are you doing regarding contacting people/groups and encouraging them to facilitate an open space? I think it would be great if we could get those emails out by mid-May. I will start traveling May 12th and I would feel much better starting my travels for OSCON and PyCon if I knew all of our open space prep is done :)
>> Please let Kinga and I know if you need help with anything. Kinga did a great job compiling a list of topic suggestions, which I added to the PyCon website https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/ <https://us.pycon.org/2016/events/open-spaces/>.
>> 
>> Kinga and Hobson, I think it would be great if we met on Sunday, May 29th (maybe in the late afternoon, right before the opening reception) to have a little ?briefing? in person to discuss the upcoming days of open spaces and anything else that may be relevant. The date is totally flexible. Saturday afternoon/evening may work as well and I promise it won?t take long. Kinga is flying in Saturday morning and I will fly in Saturday afternoon. I just wanted to bring this up so both of you can mark your calendars :)
>> 
>> We will have to put the open spaces boards up at 7am every morning. Kinga and I discussed taking turns so each one of us would only have to be there so early once instead of all 3 days. We also discussed putting one person in charge for each day, meaning one person would monitor the board for day one, a second person would take day two, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
>> 
>> Warm regards,
>> Anna
>> 
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From ewa at python.org  Thu Apr 28 17:58:17 2016
From: ewa at python.org (Ewa Jodlowska)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:58:17 -0500
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Proposing Open Spaces topics
In-Reply-To: <CA+058K3AZ0zeXxmAkQL+bwyorJ3Ej3ELOKnLRAJUQKjE3qz-kw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+058K3AZ0zeXxmAkQL+bwyorJ3Ej3ELOKnLRAJUQKjE3qz-kw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Brooke -

Thank you for sending these topics along!

I am cc'ing in the Open Spaces team to share with them your email and
topics. They are hard at work making sure we have lots of interest in the
Open Spaces this year.

Once one of your team members arrive onsite, they are welcome to add these
topics to the board. The board will be located by the registration desk
outside of exhibit hall A/B.

Best regards,

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

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Brooke Candelaria <bcandelaria at continuum.io
> wrote:

> Hi Ewa,
>
> We have some ideas for Open Spaces we would like to propose (partly based
> on what we saw was popular last year):
>
> - Parallel Computing
> - High Performance Python
> - Package Management
>
> Is it possible to get these up on the board when it goes up? What do you
> suggest? Thanks very much!
>
> Best,
> Brooke
>
>
>
> --
>
> Brooke Candelaria
> Senior Events Manager
>
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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Fri Apr 29 18:46:35 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:46:35 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Twitter question
Message-ID: <4B915FB6-845D-4B89-A947-8ECB7F8D79E4@gmx.de>

Hey Ewa and Brandon,

I just tweeted out the link to the Open Spaces blog post (thanks again Brandon for editing and posting it ;)) and someone asked on Twitter if we will have large screens and projectors available for the Open Spaces.

Thank you for your help!
Anna

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You are enough.
You matter.
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From ewa at python.org  Sat Apr 30 09:49:10 2016
From: ewa at python.org (Ewa Jodlowska)
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 08:49:10 -0500
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Twitter question
In-Reply-To: <4B915FB6-845D-4B89-A947-8ECB7F8D79E4@gmx.de>
References: <4B915FB6-845D-4B89-A947-8ECB7F8D79E4@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <CADx+GQPjRdaH1hO7B9fzjRMQatzRR-dPrYfgpykMTvU3XW_nzA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Anna,

We will not have AV in the Open Spaces. We provide space, some power, and
wifi. Power it self is very expensive :(

If someone really needs it, I can direct them to our AV team and they can
order their own. But for that price someone can just buy a portable
projector since it will be for small scale viewing.

I found this article with 2015's rating:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368481,00.asp

Best regards,

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

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hey Ewa and Brandon,
>
> I just tweeted out the link to the Open Spaces blog post (thanks again
> Brandon for editing and posting it ;)) and someone asked on Twitter if we
> will have large screens and projectors available for the Open Spaces.
>
> Thank you for your help!
> Anna
>
> ---------------------------------
> You are appreciated.
> You are enough.
> You matter.
> You are not alone.
>
>
>
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From ossanna16 at gmx.de  Sat Apr 30 19:31:48 2016
From: ossanna16 at gmx.de (Anna Ossowski)
Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 01:31:48 +0200
Subject: [Pycon-openspaces] Twitter question
In-Reply-To: <CADx+GQPjRdaH1hO7B9fzjRMQatzRR-dPrYfgpykMTvU3XW_nzA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4B915FB6-845D-4B89-A947-8ECB7F8D79E4@gmx.de>
 <CADx+GQPjRdaH1hO7B9fzjRMQatzRR-dPrYfgpykMTvU3XW_nzA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9075A6F8-0F86-49ED-8B4D-4B6EFF48B681@gmx.de>

Thank you for the quick response, Ewa :)

Have a good weekend!
Anna

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You are appreciated.
You are enough.
You matter.
You are not alone.



> Am 30.04.2016 um 15:49 schrieb Ewa Jodlowska <ewa at python.org>:
> 
> Hi Anna,
> 
> We will not have AV in the Open Spaces. We provide space, some power, and wifi. Power it self is very expensive :(
> 
> If someone really needs it, I can direct them to our AV team and they can order their own. But for that price someone can just buy a portable projector since it will be for small scale viewing. 
> 
> I found this article with 2015's rating: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368481,00.asp <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368481,00.asp>
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ewa
> Director of Operations
> Python Software Foundation
> Cell: 415-319-5237
> 
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Anna Ossowski <ossanna16 at gmx.de <mailto:ossanna16 at gmx.de>> wrote:
> Hey Ewa and Brandon,
> 
> I just tweeted out the link to the Open Spaces blog post (thanks again Brandon for editing and posting it ;)) and someone asked on Twitter if we will have large screens and projectors available for the Open Spaces.
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> Anna
> 
> ---------------------------------
> You are appreciated.
> You are enough.
> You matter.
> You are not alone.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Pycon-openspaces mailing list
> Pycon-openspaces at python.org <mailto:Pycon-openspaces at python.org>
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