[FOSS4G-UK] Lessons Learned document

[Dan Ormsby]

Hi Nick,

Yeah, your wording sounds great!

Dan

On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 at 13:55, Nick Bearman <
nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks very much. You are quite correct.
>
> However I feel we shouldn't completely rule out the option of some online
> element - in the feedback I saw although we didn't have many people online,
> they were very keen and even people who attended in person were keen on
> some online element.
>
> It's a tricky balance, and I am trying to keep everyone happy all of the
> time! Ha ha! Also we are not necessarily committing to anything for next
> year now, but I want to show we are keeping the door open.
>
> How about this slight re-phrasing:
>
> "We had a good discussion at our debrief meeting and are planning to
> reduce the streaming options next year and most likely use a commercial
> supplier if we do any live streaming. We feel an online element is
> important but the current arrangements are too complex to justify the time
> and effort involved. We are open to suggestions for next year and will
> revisit this then."
>
> Let me know what you think. Hopefully I can post this up later today /
> next few days.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
> On 05/10/2023 3:53 pm, Dan Ormsby wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Looks good.  Only comment I have is on:
>
> *"We had a good discussion at our debrief meeting and are planning to
> reduce the streaming options next year and most likely use a commercial
> supplier. It is still important to have an online element for those who are
> unable to attend a specific venue and we are exploring options to include
> this."*
>
> I thought that the view was erring more towards the fact that sorting out
> all of the streaming is a very significant amount of effort and added
> complexity for the organisers at all venues and in reality it was probably
> only for the benefit of a fairly small handful of people attending online?
>  Pains outweighing the gains!
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2023 at 15:47, Nick Bearman via FOSS4G-UK <
> foss4g-uk at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have tided up the lessons learnt document and I think it is ready to
>> be added to the website
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pig67io3FcQ3qjLC4fjSydjKPo6B5yh4QSMhmKeWRZ0/edit?usp=sharing.
>>
>> Please have a look and let me know if anything needs changing. I haven't
>> included all the technical setup info again, just liked to last years
>> and summarised what we changed.
>>
>> I plan to put this up online sometime tomorrow.
>>
>> I will also update the website and remove references to registration,
>> etc., again most likely tomorrow.
>>
>> I will flag when it goes live, so someone can check what I've done for
>> typos!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nick.
>>
>> On 21/09/2023 3:10 pm, Nick Bearman via FOSS4G-UK wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I have started putting together a Lessons Learned document together at
>> >
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pig67io3FcQ3qjLC4fjSydjKPo6B5yh4QSMhmKeWRZ0/edit.
>>
>> > The aim is to share this one publicly on the website as per last year.
>> > I will try and work a bit more on it today and early next week. Please
>> > do add / edit if you can. I will circulate again when there is a copy
>> > ready for review before it's posted. Currently I have just mostly
>> > copied over last years.
>> >
>> > As mentioned on WhatsApp, I have also extended the deadline for the
>> > feedback form to Mon 25th, 0900.
>> >
>> > Hope everyone has a good weekend!
>> >
>> > Best wishes,
>> > Nick.
>> >
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>
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>
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> Nick Bearman
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>
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>
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