3:18 p.m.
Hi everybody,
I read through the set of blogs posted about last year's Flock to try to
distill all the ideas / suggestions folks had written about for this
year.
(https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/list-of-flock-blogs-and-more/)
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Lots of notes on logistics and organization. Highlights:
- Challenge of scheduling Fedora Engineeringteam talks as to not conflict
- 10 sessions canceled; usually only 2-3. Need to figure out why /
manage itto try to avoid so many.
- Remove schedule from booklet, have wall schedule
- Telegram vs. IRC confusion, too many places to monitor."I would
advocate for coming up with an online discussion plan well in advance of
the conference next year and sticking to it."
- Wifi not sufficient to stream all sessions. Recorded sessions and post
after (except for diversity panel which streamed.) Should make a policy
on this probably. (Q: what if we streamed audio-only? Would this save
bandwidth?)
http://jwboyer.livejournal.com/53056.html
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Takeaway here is to make the transit options really clear. I'm thinking
of making some maps of how to get the airport bus, having a photo fo the
pickup point and also the drop off point in Hyannis.
http://www.colliernotes.com/2016/08/fedora-flock-2016-day-1.html
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Nice pictures of some collateral, notes about the wallschedule and maybe
we better not put a schedule in the booklet and instead do the wall
schedule as a regular thing:
http://www.ryanlerch.org/blog/flock-2016-krakow/
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Panels should be more than an hour (not sure about this tho, that seems
excessive to me)
Moderation needs to be stricter in panels so it's not dominated by a few
of the panelists
https://whatamithinks.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/480/
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Miscommunication situation to avoid with speakers:
"I was a bit relaxed after that and didn’t worry much when there was no
further contact by FLOCK organizers for hotel and travel bookings. But
by early July, I was panicking a lot ! Turns out, I had registered for
FLOCK using a different email id (non f.p.o one) and submitted the talk
using my f.p.o email id and hence was dropped from the list of sponsored
attendees. Anyway, thanks to FLOCK organizers and especially, Joe
Brockmier it all worked out in the end since I was already in Berlin for
my research work and didn’t need a new visa ! So come August 2, I was
all set and ready to fly to FLOCK.."
https://networksfordata.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/flock-diaries-krakow-2016/
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- flock proxy setup - if we can do this again would be nice, should get
the word out about it well in advance and have it in messaging including
the booklet
- rideshare page - will be good to have this setup for getting folks
from Hyannis station to the hotel
- volunteer organization - we can use volunteers for time reminders for
speakers as well as IRC transcription and video recording
https://www.scrye.com/wordpress/nirik/2013/08/06/flock-notes-of-interest/
Cheers,
~m