International Candy Swap: Flock 2018 edition
by Justin W. Flory
Hi Flock 2018 attendees!
For the third year, I'd like to announce the International Candy Swap at
Flock 2018; if you are interested in participating, please email me
(jwf(a)fedoraproject.org) with your name, your FAS account, what country
you will bring candies from, and any food allergies you have.
For the past two Flocks, we have a tradition of bringing and exchanging
candies from around the world with other Fedora community members. Learn
something about your fellow community members and indulge in some yummy
sweets at the same time! One evening of the conference, we will gather
for about an hour, while everyone lays out what they brought and explain
what we brought before trying them.
In the past, we've had German chocolates, American salt water taffy,
French fruit candies, Czech/European coconut Fidorkas, homemade Indian
sweets, Swedish sour candies, and Australian chocolate koala bears. I
can't wait to see what we will gather this year!
A list of participants and countries will be maintained here, leading up
to Flock:
https://infinote.fedoraproject.org/cgit/infinote/tree/candy-swaps/flock-2...
If you want to participate, start looking for any unique candies you can
pack with you on your journey now. :-) Please email me at
jwf(a)fedoraproject.org with your name, FAS username, what country you
will bring sweets from, and any food allergies.
Looking forward to seeing you in Dresden!
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
5 years, 4 months
Re: Flock Speaker prep workshop - Retrospective
by Brian Exelbierd
On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, at 3:45 PM, Lenka Bocincova wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I would like to share some feedback with you about the pre-flock session,
> I've done today.
>
> There was only 1 speaker, Michal Novotny, who made it to the session. I
> contacted 45 of them, 4 of them showed the interest, but one day before,
> most of them canceled it.
>
> BUT, I still think it was worth to try it again next year because I was
> able to provide useful feedback to Michal and he was happy to try it!
>
> This year it was experimental, as I have done this practice for the first
> time as an online session and with the external audience. And it was a good
> lesson, I can say :)
>
> What I've learned from this session and we can improve to the future:
>
> - it is good to do it one week before the Flock (lesson learned from the
> previous year)
> - list of speakers - it should be exportable to EXCEL, not only on the
> website (as Bex has some problem with that I think) and ready at least 2-3
> weeks before the flock
> - it was not really clear for some speakers if their talk is confirmed
> or not (one week before Flock) so they were not sure if they should
> practice talk.
There were some scheduling delays this year. I am saving these items to a list for 2019 considerations.
> - it would be great if speakers know about this session from official
> organizers if it is possible - I am not sure how you confirm speakers talk,
> but if you are sending the email, it would be great to mention that they
> will have this option. If they are interested, they could sign in to the
> list. It would be really helpful and I would know who to contact. Just an
> idea :)
+1
> - use as much communication channels as I can to promote the session -
> especially, the external one (I am an internal comms focused girl, sorry
> about that I have to improve😂), because nobody reads the emails. And I was
> not aware of the Flock communication channels (Telegram for example).
+1
regards,
bex
>
> That's it, I hope it is ok and a bit helpful. Good luck with Flock, hope
> you have a good time there!
>
> Lenka
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 10:32 PM Bhagyashree Uday <bhagyashree.iitg(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot Lenka for organizing this! I will be in an exam that time but
> > I have posted this to flock telegram group so people will know!
> >
> > Let me know how it goes.
> >
> > Best,
> > Bee
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Lenka Bocincova <lbocinco(a)redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello guys,
> >> I just want to let you know that we are going to have a small video call
> >> session tomorrow (Friday) to practice the talks with 2-3 speakers, who was
> >> interested to practice it. Each speaker will have 10 minutes for
> >> presentation and after time for feedback.
> >>
> >> This is a kind of experiment, as I've never done it virtually before, so
> >> we will see if it is useful for them :)
> >>
> >> Please, feel free to join us. We will start* at 2 pm (CEST) *and the
> >> link for a video call is here: https://bluejeans.com/4763632073
> >>
> >> See you
> >> Lenka
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:46 AM Lenka Bocincova <lbocinco(a)redhat.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey Bee,
> >>> so far, I found only one person interested in pre-flock practice here in
> >>> Brno.
> >>>
> >>> I sent also email to remote people on Monday, but I haven't had any
> >>> response from them yet.
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking to organize BlueJeans session for speakers from other
> >>> countries and it is a good idea to also record it. Thanks for this tip.
> >>>
> >>> If you find another way, how to share it with Flock speakers, I will be
> >>> grateful.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks and have a nice day
> >>> Lenka
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 1:47 PM Bhagyashree Uday <
> >>> bhagyashree.iitg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Lenka,
> >>>>
> >>>> I really appreciate your work in organising speaker prep workshops!
> >>>> I just had a small suggestion -
> >>>>
> >>>> Have you considered video recording the session and/or live streaming
> >>>> it? It would help a lot to join virtually as speakers are distributed all
> >>>> over the globe. Also, if they are unable to join the virtual session, they
> >>>> can watch the recording.
> >>>>
> >>>> Let me know if you are open to this idea and if you need any help with
> >>>> outreach and suggestions by Justin.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best
> >>>> Bee
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, 02:48 Justin W. Flory, <jflory7(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 07/04/2018 03:15 AM, Lenka Bocincova wrote:
> >>>>> > @Justin W. Flory where are you from, please?
> >>>>> > :) If you are still interested to organize this pre-flock session in
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> > different location, we could give presenters more options to choose.
> >>>>> > Please let me know, so I can start reaching the speakers soon. Thanks
> >>>>> >
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi Lenka,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think the pre-Flock speaker feedback session is a great idea, but I
> >>>>> don't anticipate having the time before Flock to help lead and work on
> >>>>> this effort.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> To help with visibility, I suggest sharing participation details on
> >>>>> this
> >>>>> mailing list and in the #fedora-flock IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Additionally, I suggest writing a short call for participation on the
> >>>>> Fedora Community Blog as a great way to boost visibility for the
> >>>>> speaker
> >>>>> sessions (and also find more people willing to volunteer and help with
> >>>>> this too).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-community-blog-article/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hope this is useful!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>> Justin W. Flory
> >>>>> jflory7(a)gmail.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> flock-planning mailing list -- flock-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to
> >>>>> flock-planning-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> >>>>> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html
> >>>>> List Guidelines:
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> >>>>> List Archives:
> >>>>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/flock-planning@lists.fedora...
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> LENKA BOČINCOVÁ
> >>>
> >>> MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST 1,
> >>>
> >>> PNT COMMUNICATIONS
> >>> <https://mojo.redhat.com/groups/products-and-technologies-communications>
> >>>
> >>> Red Hat Brno <https://www.redhat.com/>
> >>>
> >>> lbocinco(a)redhat.com IM: lbocinco
> >>> <https://red.ht/sig>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> LENKA BOČINCOVÁ
> >>
> >> MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST 1,
> >>
> >> PNT COMMUNICATIONS
> >> <https://mojo.redhat.com/groups/products-and-technologies-communications>
> >>
> >> Red Hat Brno <https://www.redhat.com/>
> >>
> >> lbocinco(a)redhat.com IM: lbocinco
> >> <https://red.ht/sig>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> LENKA BOČINCOVÁ
>
> MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST 1,
>
> PNT COMMUNICATIONS
> <https://mojo.redhat.com/groups/products-and-technologies-communications>
>
> Red Hat Brno <https://www.redhat.com/>
>
> lbocinco(a)redhat.com IM: lbocinco
> <https://red.ht/sig>
5 years, 4 months
Fwd: Instructions : Google Summer of Code and Outreachy Project
Showcase talk at FLOCK 2018.
by Bhagyashree Uday
Forwarding this message to mailing lists as it got held earlier due to high
number of receipents.
If you want to participate in the talk as a speaker, it is still not too
late. You need to be
- Involved in Google Summer of Code or Outreachy as a student, mentor
or org admin
- Attend FLOCK 2018
Bee
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bhagyashree Uday <bhagyashree.iitg(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 12:43 AM
Subject: Instructions : Google Summer of Code and Outreachy Project
Showcase talk at FLOCK 2018.
To: algogator(a)fedoraproject.org, Sumantro Mukherjee <sumukher(a)redhat.com>,
Radoslav Pitoňák <rado.pitonak(a)gmail.com>, lorbus(a)fedoraproject.org,
dusty(a)dustymabe.com, coremodule(a)fedoraproject.org, Laura Abbott <
labbott(a)redhat.com>, Brian Exelbierd <bexelbie(a)redhat.com>, "Justin W.
Flory" <jflory7(a)fedoraproject.org>, amitosh(a)fedoraproject.org,
hello.abhishek(a)outlook.com
Cc: bee2502(a)fedoraproject.org, Jona Azizaj <jonatoni(a)fedoraproject.org>,
"Planning discussion for Flock (Fedora Contributor Conference)" <
flock-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, outreachy(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
summer-coding(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
summer-coding-mentors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Hello everyone,
I am glad you are interested in participating as a speaker in the Google
Summer of Code and Outreachy Project Showcase talk at FLOCK 2018. I am
extremely sorry for the late email. I have been very busy the past few
weeks due to my semester ending exams.
If you want to participate in the talk as a speaker, it is still not too
late. You need to be
- Involved in Google Summer of Code or Outreachy as a student, mentor
or org admin
- Attend FLOCK 2018
Currently, the *agenda of the talk *is going to be something like this:
1. GSoC, Outreachy and fedora's involvement in these programs ( 5 mins)
2. Qualities of a good GSoC/Outreachy project idea and process to propose a
project idea. (5 mins)
3. If possible, a little introduction from Fedora co-ordinators for the
program (2-3 mins)
4. Showcase of GSoC and Outreachy projects from current and previous rounds
(Max 5 mins per project)
* GSoC students/Outreachy interns will give a short presentation overview
of their project
5. Mentors talking about their experience and tips for future mentors (Max
5 mins per mentor)
6. Q-A session
*If you are a Google Summer of Code student or Outreachy intern,*
I am glad you want to showcase your project. It is a nice platform to get
feedback on your work and network.
* We would love to see a demo of your project
* If this is not possible, please prepare a short slide deck about your
project (not more than 7 slides). Please send it to me (
bee2502(a)fedoraproject.org) or Jona Azizaj (jonatoni(a)fedoraproject.org)
latest by *Tuesday 7 August 2359 CET*.
* Apart from the project, it would be great if you can talk a bit about
your broader experience with fedora community, how this internship has
helped you and possibly, tips and suggestions for future mentors.
* Please limit your talk to 5 mins max.
* If you have any suggestions or need anything to help you showcase your
project better, let me (bee2502(a)fedoraproject.org) or Jona Azizaj (
jonatoni(a)fedoraproject.org) know latest by *Tuesday 7 August 2359 CET.*
*If you are a Google Summer of Code or Outreachy mentor,*
I am glad you are interested in talking about your experience with Google
Summer of Code and Outreachy programs. This will be helpful for community
members who will be proposing a project in forthcoming rounds.
* Here are some suggested ideas which we would love to hear about :
- Qualities of a good project idea proposal (scope, difficulty
level and how well defined should it be etc.)
- Useful tips for mentors during application period ( Qualities to
look for while selecting students, how to create easy beginner tasks for
initial contribution etc. )
- Useful tips for mentors during internship ( How many hours does
mentoring take, problems you faced, tips on communicating with student etc)
You are welcome to talk on topics beyond this as long as they are related
to your mentorship experience in Google Summer of Code and Outreachy
programs.
* Slides are welcome, but not necessary. Let us know if you are using
slides via email - me (bee2502(a)fedoraproject.org) or Jona Azizaj (
jonatoni(a)fedoraproject.org) latest by *Tuesday 7 August 2359 CET*. If you
are using slides, it would be great if you could send us your slides by
then too.
* Please limit your talk to 5 mins max.
*If you are a Google Summer of Code or Outreachy Org admin,*
We would love to hear a small introduction from you about the program and
provide some tips to future mentors and students. If you can participate,
let me (bee2502(a)fedoraproject.org) or Jona Azizaj (
jonatoni(a)fedoraproject.org) know latest by *Tuesday 7 August 2359 CET*.
*General Instructions:*
** We would also like to know your telegram id or phone number i.e. some
real time contact information for communicating problems with slides or
demo, if there are any. You can message it to me(bee2502(a)fedoraproject.org
<bee2502(a)fedoraproject.org>) or Jona Azizaj (jonatoni(a)fedoraproject.org
<jonatoni(a)fedoraproject.org> via a private email or via telegram @bee2502.
* Please be there at talk venue atleast 5 mins before talk starts. *
Let me know if you have any further questions or if something is unclear.
Feedback on the agenda is welcome.
See you at flock!
Best,
Bee
5 years, 4 months
Re: Speaker prep workshops again this year?
by Bhagyashree Uday
Thanks a lot Lenka for organizing this! I will be in an exam that time but
I have posted this to flock telegram group so people will know!
Let me know how it goes.
Best,
Bee
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Lenka Bocincova <lbocinco(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
> I just want to let you know that we are going to have a small video call
> session tomorrow (Friday) to practice the talks with 2-3 speakers, who was
> interested to practice it. Each speaker will have 10 minutes for
> presentation and after time for feedback.
>
> This is a kind of experiment, as I've never done it virtually before, so
> we will see if it is useful for them :)
>
> Please, feel free to join us. We will start* at 2 pm (CEST) *and the link
> for a video call is here: https://bluejeans.com/4763632073
>
> See you
> Lenka
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:46 AM Lenka Bocincova <lbocinco(a)redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Bee,
>> so far, I found only one person interested in pre-flock practice here in
>> Brno.
>>
>> I sent also email to remote people on Monday, but I haven't had any
>> response from them yet.
>>
>> I was thinking to organize BlueJeans session for speakers from other
>> countries and it is a good idea to also record it. Thanks for this tip.
>>
>> If you find another way, how to share it with Flock speakers, I will be
>> grateful.
>>
>> Thanks and have a nice day
>> Lenka
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 1:47 PM Bhagyashree Uday <
>> bhagyashree.iitg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lenka,
>>>
>>> I really appreciate your work in organising speaker prep workshops!
>>> I just had a small suggestion -
>>>
>>> Have you considered video recording the session and/or live streaming
>>> it? It would help a lot to join virtually as speakers are distributed all
>>> over the globe. Also, if they are unable to join the virtual session, they
>>> can watch the recording.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you are open to this idea and if you need any help with
>>> outreach and suggestions by Justin.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> Bee
>>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, 02:48 Justin W. Flory, <jflory7(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/04/2018 03:15 AM, Lenka Bocincova wrote:
>>>> > @Justin W. Flory where are you from, please?
>>>> > :) If you are still interested to organize this pre-flock session in a
>>>> > different location, we could give presenters more options to choose.
>>>> > Please let me know, so I can start reaching the speakers soon. Thanks
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Hi Lenka,
>>>>
>>>> I think the pre-Flock speaker feedback session is a great idea, but I
>>>> don't anticipate having the time before Flock to help lead and work on
>>>> this effort.
>>>>
>>>> To help with visibility, I suggest sharing participation details on this
>>>> mailing list and in the #fedora-flock IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
>>>>
>>>> Additionally, I suggest writing a short call for participation on the
>>>> Fedora Community Blog as a great way to boost visibility for the speaker
>>>> sessions (and also find more people willing to volunteer and help with
>>>> this too).
>>>>
>>>> https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-
>>>> community-blog-article/
>>>>
>>>> Hope this is useful!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Justin W. Flory
>>>> jflory7(a)gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> flock-planning mailing list -- flock-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to flock-planning-leave@lists.
>>>> fedoraproject.org
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>>>> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
>>>> List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/flock-
>>>> planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CN3MWTER7KNHH5XYJU5YLZFZYU3LK4
>>>> YS/
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> LENKA BOČINCOVÁ
>>
>> MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST 1,
>>
>> PNT COMMUNICATIONS
>> <https://mojo.redhat.com/groups/products-and-technologies-communications>
>>
>> Red Hat Brno <https://www.redhat.com/>
>>
>> lbocinco(a)redhat.com IM: lbocinco
>> <https://red.ht/sig>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> LENKA BOČINCOVÁ
>
> MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST 1,
>
> PNT COMMUNICATIONS
> <https://mojo.redhat.com/groups/products-and-technologies-communications>
>
> Red Hat Brno <https://www.redhat.com/>
>
> lbocinco(a)redhat.com IM: lbocinco
> <https://red.ht/sig>
>
5 years, 4 months
Re: Yoga at FLOCK Dresden?
by Brian (bex) Exelbierd
These sessions are now on the schedule.
regards,
bex
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:07 AM, Suzanne Yeghiayan <syeghiay(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 08/01/2018 06:30 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:23:57PM +0200, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:34 PM Suzanne Yeghiayan <syeghiay(a)redhat.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I am attending my first FLOCK and happen to also teach yoga both at
> work
> >>> and at my gym. I am wondering if there is interest in an early morning
> >>> class at FLOCK. Say 6:30-7:30AM? Let me know.
> > This is an awesome offer! Will this happen every day?
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Till
>
> That is my plan. I'm working out the details with the organizers. Stay
> tuned.
>
> --
> Suzanne Yeghiayan
> Red Hat Inc
> 314 Littleton Road
> Westford, MA US
> Office: 978-392-2459
>
>
--
Brian (bex) Exelbierd | bexelbie(a)redhat.com | bex(a)pobox.com
Fedora Community Action & Impact Coordinator
@bexelbie | http://www.winglemeyer.org
5 years, 4 months