[Inpycon] Open spaces & Lightning Talks

[Shrayas rajagopal]

Vijay, Bibhas,

What do we do about the blog post? We need to publish this soon.



On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Arvi Krishnaswamy <
> arvi at alumni.iastate.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I think there were a few things that I thought the calendar would help
> with.
> > - not sure how many people are on trello, a larger % are on google
> calendar already
> > - time flies by pretty quick at conferences and I thought it'd be handy
> for me to subscribe to a calendar and get notifications
>
> Fair enough.
>
> > - not sure trello solves who speaks when, it in fact requires more
> arbitrage between two notes in one list which may be planning the same
> slot? (I may not have understood your suggestion)
>
> ​Well, what I meant was, instead of thinking of these as "sessions" why
> not think of them as getting the audience for someone who wants to talk.
> i.e. if i want to talk about something, i'll announce that i'm interested
> in talking about "X" and on that card, people who want to listen to me can
> find out where to meet me and then find a decent place to have that
> discussion. Nimhans is a HUGE place to have adhoc discussions. Of course
> then it means that the Rooms don't get used up all that much.  ​
>
> >
> > I do like that the Trello option provides for better collaboration and
> discussion under each note. This is definitely valuable and I can't think
> of a way to do this with just a calendar.
>
> How about having something like an IFTTT recipe to connect trello ​with
> GCal and get something going? Haven't thought this through though.
>
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Arvi
> >
> > On Aug 21, 2014 11:22 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
> >> >
>
>
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