[Inpycon] Open spaces & Lightning Talks

[Kracekumar Ramaraju]

Hi

I am bit scary about Internet failure/login required etc. Also we should
think of plan B which will work offline.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Arvi Krishnaswamy <
> arvi at alumni.iastate.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I need to think this through a bit. Perhaps something simple like a
> shared Google calendar, which can be collaboratively updated, and with
> tweets that go out on #pycon when there are new appointments setup?
> > And yes, either monitors or a projector plus screen (which can rotate
> through different feeds - Twitter feed, camera feeds, schedule, photos
> would be great)
>
> ​If we could get something like this done, nothing like it. ​One problem I
> see with using a shared google calendar is, if 3 people want to give a talk
> at location "A" then who decides who gets to give that talk? We're really
> going for an *open* approach here. Ideally it would be great for everyone
> who wants to talk to get an audience.
>
> How about using something like trello for this? We could have lists for
> every open space spot, and anyone who likes to give a talk simply puts a
> card in there with the required details (topic, a small description). The
> interested people could reply on the card itself and could get something
> arranged.
>
> Come to think of it, it really isn't necessary to have designated places
> for these sessions, we really only need a way to *connect* the interested
> speaker to the people who want to listen to him/her.
>
> >
> > Arvi
> >
> > On Aug 14, 2014 11:25 PM, "Bibhas" <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thursday 14 August 2014 10:47 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I personally found it really hard. I'd love it if the open space was
> closer to the other conference rooms, and if there was an electronic medium
> of some sort to see what slots are blocked out. I love the barcamp
> approach, but not sure it works as well with a thousand folks running
> around.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> We can probably manage couple of monitors etc. But how'd you like that
> to work? A webpage open on them all the time showing the open space
> schedule and that can be updated whenever you want?
>
> ​What do y'all think?​
>
>
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