[FOSS4G-Oceania] Fwd: Potential Georabble during event week

[John Bryant]

A few thoughts...

I don't think holding BOF sessions sufficiently addresses the problem of
changing the icebreaker. I speak from my own experience as a FOSS4G-curious
newbie, where the icebreaker was a chance to meet fellow attendees before
the beginning of the conf, so I felt less alien over the course of the
event. It seems to me that BoF sessions are more designed to enable
specific groups of people to coalesce around a specific topic, and not
necessarily accessible to all attendees.

I'm strongly in favour of trying to engage with OZRI attendees, if
possible, and raise their awareness of open source software & the
community. However, I'm not totally convinced that holding a Georabble on
the night of the OZRI event will attract large numbers of these people, who
will be at the Convention Centre across town, and will already have been
hanging out at a social event with free drinks (theoretically until 6 pm,
but potentially later). Also, it's not clear to me how a Georabble event
would achieve this awareness raising, unless it was open source themed
(possible - we should try for this).

Perhaps the opportunity to reach OZRI attendees could be realised by having
GR on Thursday night, generating a bit of buzz around the idea of a 'GIS
Week in Melbourne', and making sure we run some comms that will get their
attention, eg. by hash tagging #ozri on some of our outgoing messages
around that time.

I'm inclined to think that we should carry on with the current plans
(icebreaker Tuesday, dinner Wednesday), and slot the GR in on Thursday
evening or Friday afternoon.

So, for me:

-1 to GeoRabble on Tue 22
-1 to GeoRabble on Wed 23
+1 to GeoRabble on Thu 24 or Fri 25

(incidentally, it occurs to me that I don't know the difference between +0,
0, and -0 - can someone explain how this voting system is actually supposed
to work?)
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