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

[Alex Leith]

Hi All

I'm leaning towards the emerging consensus that we look at a GeoRabble on
the Thursday.

I don't think we should change the dinner, and tickets go on sale now so we
need to lock that in...

+1 Thursday


On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 at 08:44 John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Alex Leith
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