[Pycon-openspaces] Next up

[Brandon Rhodes]

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
>
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> 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
>>
>>
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>> You matter.
>> You are not alone.
>>
>>
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