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

[Nathan Woodrow]

I'll be happy with anything, just when and if I can is the tricky
question...

- Nathan

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Robbie MacKay <rm at robbiemackay.com> wrote:

> 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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