<div dir="auto">Jeff,<div dir="auto">The goal here is to attract people at OSGeo townhall to disseminate open source as part of the open science.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The event host 15000 participants and the conference is full of events and people came and go... I think we should offer something to let people spend time with us.. otherwise we have small reach out..</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Having talks in the Japanese stile is good to get fun when people are already engaged... But I don't think will work at EGU / AGU...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maxi</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il 08 dic 2017 14:04, "Jeff McKenna" <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> ha scritto:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for pushing this again Peter. I actually just went back each year in the wiki, back to 2014 reading the LessonsLearned.<br>
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I can appreciate the idea to have a lunch/splinter event, but I agree that we would lose the 'extras' that we can include for attendees in the evening.<br>
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Question/Comment: the FOSS4G-Japan events use the evening session for lightning talks, everyone is more relaxed, some 'refreshments' are provided with light snacks, and attendees stand around the presenter up close, and listen to the lightning talk - some important points that they use for this, which generate a more 'open' feeling:<br>
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- no stage or podium. the lightning speaker is given a mic and stands level beside the attendees, near the free 'refreshments'. I am actually very against the stage and the podium, as it portrays a "I am talking down to you, I am here to lecture you" imagine which actually bores me.<br>
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- few slides. Attendees have just watched an entire 8 hours of slides, would anyone want to watch even more slides? Impossible.<br>
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- no seating, everyone stands. This makes everyone more 'social', I have seen this in so many events. The worst we can do is force attendees to sit at a table of 5, which limits discussion to those 5.<br>
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- colorful topics or more interesting topics. Yes it can be done.<br>
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This is my advice, from attending so many of these extra sessions outside the program, at so many events around the world. Can we apply some of this to our EGU session?<br>
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You do mention 'dinner' which usually refers to a feeling quite opposite of what I mention above. But is any of that feedback useful in this townhall case? hmmmmmmmmmmm<br>
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On 2017-12-08 7:09 AM, "Peter Löwe" wrote:<br>
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Dear list,<br>
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the calls for EGU submissions are open until January 10 2018 (<a href="https://www.egu2018.eu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.egu2018.eu/</a>).<br>
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I would like t o draw you attention especially on this session:<br>
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ESSI3.1:Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Geoinformatics and Geosciences<br>
Details: <a href="http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26511" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://meetingorganizer.copern<wbr>icus.org/EGU2018/session/26511</a><br>
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Further, I would like to ask for feedback whether the committee shall organize another Townhall event at EGU (evening event) or shall instead go for a lunch-(splinter)event.<br>
OSGeo Townhalls have been hosted since 2014 (report on last townhall <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2017" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EG<wbr>U_Townhall_2017</a>).<br>
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Townhalls have the disadvantage to compete for attendees, as several Townhall events happen in parallel in the same timeslot.<br>
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The same applies potentially to splinter meetings hosted during lunch, but during that time of day most of the conference attendees are on the move anyway.<br>
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IMHO the biggest difference between a splinter event for lunch and a Townhall would be availability of libations (evenings: "free science", "free software", "(free) beer") instead of hot beverages (coffee/tea).<br>
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For an OSGeo-themed evening event we could also schedule a dinner-event (including libations) to meet with local OSGeo activists, as it was done in the past years.<br>
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Please comment.<br>
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best,<br>
Peter<br>
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