Hi Trey,

Thank you for your ideas!

I believe the actual Open Space rooms will only be available during the 3 days of talks. We could however think about encouraging informal Open Spaces (which I think happens anyway) during the tutorials and sprints.

We have tried curating a list of topics before and it was semi-successful in my opinion. I like the idea of giving people some ideas, on the other hand I don’t want people to think that we are “dictating” certain topics or maybe disturb their creativity (“maybe my idea isn’t good enough”) by providing suggestions. 

I think the quiet room should stay a quiet space. I wouldn’t want to disturb people who are taking a break from the conference, by offering an Open Space in this room, even if it would be yoga or meditation. I like the idea of a sticker exchange. OSCON does speed networking, which is what you described with the musical chairs idea. I do however worry a bit that if we add too much structure, this will take away from the Open Spaces as they are supposed to be open and kind of informal as the name suggests.

FYI - I have a separate room (outside of the Open Space Rooms) dedicated to a quiet room. Please do not use one of the open space rooms for this. The "rules" for this room will be based on what I saw at EuroPython: