Some other conferences (GopherCon) have a community day which is basically a day without agenda, this leave people free to work or discuss on what they wish with who they wish. The more relaxed atmosphere also allow people to do a bit networking and get some interest in part of the community that they don't necessarily have time for.
This is also the same kind of principle for unconference
Hi Clément! Before we launched Flock, we actually ran FUDCon as a barcamp/unconference from 2007 to 2013. This wasn't really working very well: we weren't getting the right people into the conversations that needed to be there, people weren't as prepared to present as would have been good (and in many cases, people weren't prepared to listen, either). So, going back to a more planned approach was one of the main changes from FUDCon to Flock and I think has been part of the success. I'm certainly open to experimenting with the format, but I'm not really convinced that this is the best approach without some further structure or guidance.
Thanks for the giving me some historical context :)
My thoughts were that maybe having a more open agenda the last day of flock would allow people to discuss and reflect on the previous days talks and sessions and maybe even start hacking on some of the ideas that have grown during that time. That's said it is maybe a little bit to idealistic vision of it and maybe in the real world it would not really work.
But I thought that it was worth sharing :smile:
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