Mailman 3 March 2016 - Pycon-openspaces

List of topics for the website
by Kinga Kięczkowska April 4, 2016

April 4, 2016

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-reO… 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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Open Spaces Update
by Anna Ossowski March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

Good morning Kinga, Hobson, and Brandon! I hope all of you are well! PyCon is approaching fast and will be here before we know it. We still have time to get things done and sorted out but I’d rather for us to get started early than to run out of time closer to the conference. I went ahead and wrote a blog post, some tweets, and a draft for an email we could use for reaching out to groups about hosting an open space. You can find the links to all documents in Trello. Please feel free to make suggestions for adjustments or additions. The two big tasks which are still on our to-do list are creating a list of potential open space topics and reaching out to different groups. Kinga is going to tackle the list of topics. Hobson, do you think you could take on the task of creating a list of groups we should reach out to and maybe start reaching out to them closer to PyCon? Brandon, we had discussed reaching out to everyone whose talk or tutorial didn’t get accepted and to encourage them to host an open space on that topic instead. Do you think this is a good idea or not? It would surely involve a lot of emails so I was wondering if you had a better idea :) Brandon, I would also like to edit the open spaces page on the PyCon website. How do I do that? Kinga, Hobson, and Brandon, if I forgot any tasks or you have anything else in mind which needs to be tackled, please add it to the Trello board so we know we need to plan in some time for it. Thank you and have a great day! Anna

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Open Spaces sign up cards
by Anna Ossowski March 15, 2016

March 15, 2016

Good morning Ewa! I was wondering if it would be possible to have different colored cards for open space sign up this year. Since we will be putting up two boards at time, one for the current day and one for the next day, it might be less confusing for hosts and attendees if we had two colors available for the sign up cards. Please let me know what you think of this idea and whether this is possible or not. Thank you! :) Anna

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An improvement to the overview diagram
by Brandon Rhodes March 12, 2016

March 12, 2016

Good morning, Open Spacers! A quick note on how Open Spaces are illustrated on the web site: You might already have seen my first attempt at a schedule overview diagram on the web site. It tries to put in one place a miniature picture of what is happening at PyCon each day, so that people can see which events run concurrently. Ewa pointed out to me that it was not clear why the Open Spaces are covered with little squares. I explained that it was my attempt to show that sometimes open space rooms are occupied and sometimes not, but her question made me realize that probably no one but me would get why they were illustrated that way! I came up with another way to illustrate them, in a way that might connect better with how the Open Spaces themselves are organized: with a pinboard. So I used the magic of SVG to, in just a few minutes, switch the overview to looking like this: A real graphic designer could probably make it look even better, but I hope that this is far clearer than the weird 1970's-esque partial grid of boxes that was my first attempt. Hopefully this will better connect, in people's minds, with what Open Spaces organization looks like when they get to the conference! -- Brandon Rhodes PyCon 2016 Conference Chair pycon.brandon(a)gmail.com

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