Re: [Pycon-openspaces] List of topics for the website

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 :

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 mailto:ossanna16@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

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Am 30.03.2016 um 11:04 schrieb Kinga Kięczkowska mailto:k.kieczkowska@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-reO9... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C38lRU7zlZ2pgnGcP0w6bRGU8kD8JspA6fE-reO9...

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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