[FOSS4G-Oceania] Community Day - tentpole and long tail events

[David Dean]

Andrew,

I feel like not wanting to propose projects unless people are interested in
these projects is putting the cart before the horse. We need to provide a
list of projects that are seeking contributors a few (even just one) months
before the community day, and allow participants to nominate projects they
are interested in. We can't do that too early though (seeking participants,
that is), as we may get a lot of drop-outs as people don't always put a lot
of consideration into registering for free events.

*But*, first we need a list of projects that are seeking contributors. How
do we collect that?

We are at the collecting ideas for project stage, not about collecting
participants. That will come much closer to the event, but we need a list
of ideas first. That is what the form I have created is for.

- David

On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 11:26 Andrew Harvey <andrew at alantgeo.com.au> wrote:

> > I think the alternative would be to focus on three-ish tentpole events
> (Missing Maps, OSGeo codesprint, QGIS?), and have other people interested
> in running events email us directly to limit the number of projects offered.
>
> I think we should ask for and welcome community day submissions. Whether
> that's an online for or email us I don't think it matters, never know what
> good ideas might come forward.
>
> The main problem I see is it's really going to depend on who's attending
> the community day and what their interests are.
>
> So if there are a few people interested in doing QGIS development it makes
> sense to run a focused QGIS development event.
>
> If there are people interested in working on an OSM import, then we can
> run that.
>
> Some ideas I had are:
>
>    - OpenAddresses
>    - Automating source updates
>       - Analysis to compare coverage with OSM
>       - Detecting differences between the GNAF and other sources
>       - OpenStreetMap
>    - Preparing or doing an import
>       - Analysis to compare OSM with other open data
>       - A focused mapping task
>
>
> But again, only makes sense to run these if there are people coming
> interested in this.
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, at 8:22 PM, David Dean wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I didn't get a change to be around for the end of discussion of the
> community day, but I understand there is some concern that calling for
> proposals similar to what we have at
> https://foss4g-oceania.org/attend/community-day/community-day-proposal (which,
> while live, is not linked from anywhere) may lead to a chaotic community
> day with too many projects for people to choose from.
>
> I think the alternative would be to focus on three-ish tentpole events
> (Missing Maps, OSGeo codesprint, QGIS?), and have other people interested
> in running events email us directly to limit the number of projects offered.
>
> There were also suggestions of wikis and mailing lists, but from my
> experience with organising OSM events is that most non-technical people
> don't want to deal with that sort of things, and would prefer to use
> webforms and eventbrite-like registration.
>
> I personally would like to make the form active for people to propose
> projects in the lead up to the conference, and then something like
> eventbrite (or a registration form on our website) where community
> contributors can indicate the projects they are going to work on. We could
> handle a few non-shows and a few people turning up without registering, but
> we would obviously prefer if they did.
>
> Discuss! In particular, it would help be if you can explain why we
> *shouldn't* be making the project proposal form live, and what we should do
> alternatively, if not.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> - David
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