[Aust-NZ] Conversation restart conference, unconference, workshop or code sprint

[Robbie MacKay]

I'd be happy to help out with unconference organisation or regular code
sprints.

Robbie

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Any takers?
>
> It sounds like the members of this list are familiar with the trails and
> tribulations of organising a conference. To organise a local conference we
> would need to sort out a venue; arrange speakers and so on. It is often
> smart to do one of these in association with another event. Is there
> anything on the calendar that would be a good fit?
>
> Organising an unconference is a little bit easier; if only in that there
> is no program to plan out a head of time. Simply set aside rooms run those
> in attendance through the process of picking subject(s) and grabbing a
> place to talk. These can go well (or badly) depending on the enthusiasm of
> those present.
>
> Running a workshop or training session gets a bit difficult as it is a
> hard topic to staff using volunteers. FOSS4G gets buy by heavily
> subsidising the materials (to the tune of one conference ticket).
> Nevertheless such a function has been requested (both at the Brisbane and
> Canberra meet ups).
>
> There was a great "workshop" track at FOSS4G this year entirely devoted to
> what open source is, how to make use of it, and so on - aimed at providing
> some comfort for attendees prior to the full conference. Perhaps organising
> one of these would be worthwhile?
>
> A code sprint is perhaps the oddest one to organise; as it involves out
> reach to interested projects or teams; but often has the largest benefit to
> the source code and sense of community. However this does not always need
> to be the core programming projects. It may be worth while to run a sprint
> to work on promotional materials for Australian government and industry? Or
> perhaps focus on educational materials etc...
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
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