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

[Martin Tomko]

Hi all,
I think ( my own impression, never been to FOSS4G before) that a workshop is more structured, and requires more commitment, than a community day. A workshop may be targeted at noives or people needing handguiding, and a community day brings together people to cultivate contributions to a software/data project – am I right?

In that sense, I believe there is nothing to fear about asking for community day ideas now, and encourage the discussion in the discuss list. Maybe we should state that we will select/support community days that can show “vibrancy” in the mailing list ( so not just someone coming out of the blue). I do not think there should be a very formal vetting process, the only thing that it needs is to demonstrate that there is a committed MC/Organiser that will be here in person, an idea about the scope ( relatively informal), and that the idea has attracted interest in the mailing list.

We could put a call out to all OSGEO and LocationTech and other projects we know of, and then just monitor whether they come back to the mailing list or Twitter and attract interest. Low barrier of entry.

That can be the role of the committee. And we need someone from the community to make a commitment to come to the event and MC the thing.

My 2c
M.

From: FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 17 July 2018 at 12:26 pm
To: David Dean <ddean at ieee.org>
Cc: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Community Day - tentpole and long tail events

I guess let me put it this way. For our workshops, we've decided there will be up to 10 workshops, they'll be 3.5 hours in duration, we'll do a community vote on them, and we'll select them by 17 Aug. So, when we put out the call for workshops, we were able to let people know how their submission would fit into the event, and what we would do next.

I don't necessarily think we need to go to this degree for the Community Day, but it feels like there would be some benefit to deciding (to some degree) what the structure is that submissions would fit into.

However, I'm starting to feel like I'm out on a limb here. I don't want to obstruct in any way. Again, if I'm the only person that wants to see more planning in advance of a call for submissions, then I will step out of the way!
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