Awesome! I will speak to you next Tuesday :)

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

On Feb 14, 2019, at 3:43 PM, Kaelen L. Medeiros kaelenmedeiros@gmail.com wrote:

Anna,

Absolutely! I keep my schedule here: https://datacampkaelen.youcanbook.me/ https://datacampkaelen.youcanbook.me/ if that's helpful for you to book a time, or we can coordinate another way.

Best, Kaelen

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:33 AM Anna Ossowski <annabell.ossowski@gmail.com mailto:annabell.ossowski@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Kaelen,

Thank you for responding :) Would you be available to do a short call next week?

Warm regards, Anna

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

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On Feb 14, 2019, at 4:33 AM, Kaelen L. Medeiros <kaelenmedeiros@gmail.com mailto:kaelenmedeiros@gmail.com> wrote:

Anna,

I appreciate you writing back. My answers:

• I definitely could be planning on it. My company is a sponsor or has a booth at the conference this year, which is why I'm going this year, and I truly believe I could make it for the next few years.
• I haven't been before, but I'm very excited to experience it for the first time.
• I read about it on the website but haven't been to a conference that had exactly that before. I've organized hospitality rooms around certain LGBTQ identities at a conference I've organized before, but never anything as wide open as Open Spaces. I think it sounds great!

Thank you again for responding, and I hope you're well!

Best, Kaelen

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 8:17 AM Anna Ossowski <annabell.ossowski@gmail.com mailto:annabell.ossowski@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Kaelen,

Thank you for your note!

I have a few questions:

• Are you planning on attending PyCon US 2019, 2020, and 2021?
• Have you been to PyCon US before?
• Are you familiar with the Open Spaces concept?

Looking forward to learning more about you :) Anna

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

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On Feb 11, 2019, at 3:43 AM, Kaelen Medeiros <kaelenmedeiros@gmail.com mailto:kaelenmedeiros@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi!

My name is Kaelen Medeiros and I recently registered for PyCon 2019! I’m so excited to be attending, and fortuitously I also saw the tweet about the Open Spaces co-coordinator position.

I’ve helped organize two different conferences in the past, one in tech, including the ChickTech Chicago-led ACT-W conference in 2017. While I’m very involved in R and the R community, as a multi-lingual data science, I’d like to give back to the Python community as well. The PyCon Open Spaces role seemed like a good fit for me. I helped organize a conference in 2011 while in undergrad where I was the hospitality chair, and essentially organized spaces around different LGBTQ identities that is analogous enough to the Open Spaces concept at PyCon that I felt compelled to reach out. I currently answer emails for the R-Ladies Community Slack, and I have enough website updating skills I’m sure I could be useful there as well.

I’d love to be considered as a co-organizer, and can be reached at this email with any questions.

Best, Kaelen

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