#229 What about Tracks?
Closed: Resolved 3 years ago by riecatnor. Opened 3 years ago by jflory7.

I'm opening this issue as a way to track discussion from the 2020-05-06 Mindshare meeting about organizing tracks or categories of content for the 2020 virtual Fedora conference:

[14:20:17] <riecatnor> I think one of the tracks should be something like mini hackfests -- and these can happen with the people who need to be there, and they can schedule it and do it on their own. The idea behind that is we collect some data about what they accomplished and compile it together to tell a story about what we achieved during the week

Do other folks have ideas or suggestions on tracks for Flock 2020?


II am proposing the following four tracks: ask the experts, community, games, and hackfests. I would be open to adjusting, or adding or subtracting. I think the max we should do is 5, minimum 3.

Ask the experts track- presenter & moderator take questions from a live audience with topics such as:
- silverblue
- centos
- iot
- your idea here!

Community track - sessions led by specific teams or people such as:
- "We are Fedora" video for 2020
- "How do you Fedora" blog post series for the week of Nest
- Fedora Women's social hour
- your idea here!

Games track - sessions led by specific teams or people such as:
- Minetest - asynchronous collaboration and play
- Games SIG - who they are and what they do
- Animal Crossing Meetup
- your idea here!

Hackfest track - sessions led by specific teams or people such as:
- Badges hackfest
- Documentation sprints
- Working or planning sessions for teams
- Your idea here!

Please provide feedback :) Thanks!

@riecatnor:
I am proposing the following four tracks: ask the experts, community, games, and hackfests.

I like each of these four.

@riecatnor:
Ask the experts track- presenter & moderator take questions from a live audience with topics such as:

A follow-up item could be a post to both devel-announce@ and CommBlog to encourage folks to apply with a common process or template for topics they could be a virtual expert for.

@riecatnor:
Community track - sessions led by specific teams or people such as:

Might be good to encourage distributed, local organizing by encouraging different groups of people to host the same content in different groups of time zones. Advocates, Ambassadors, and regional community leads are good folks to directly connect with on this.

@riecatnor:
Games track - sessions led by specific teams or people such as:
- Games SIG - who they are and what they do

I think the Games SIG is a good potential source of ideas to lead on this. It probably needs to be clear in advance what short-term infrastructure Fedora could provide (or facilitate the provision of) for the week of Flock, before approaching Games SIG.

@riecatnor:
Hackfest track - sessions led by specific teams or people such as:

I like the track idea. But maybe something more like "Office Hours" is better that encourages prioritized asynchronous collaboration?

I think getting shared together time for geographically-distributed teams will be hard. It is a challenge that is part of the cards this year. So, something like "Office Hours" might be more accommodating to encourage folks working on a particular "thing". It might just mean watching a specific chat, mailing list, or other comms place more than usual for a day, maybe two.

As compared to, everyone trying to get into one chat room across the globe for one, maybe two, hours. Someone is always on the short-end of that stick. :sweat_smile: I am way more juiced for innovation and new ideas after I have had a morning coffee, not when I am counting hours until I can sleep again. :wink:

Ask the experts track- presenter & moderator take questions from a live audience with topics such as:

Awesome Idea

Community track - sessions led by specific teams or people such as:
- "We are Fedora" video for 2020

Doing a E-Video on it sounds awesome, Excited :D

  • "How do you Fedora" blog post series for the week of Nest

I had an Idea how about changing the title to Why do you Fedora as that will focus more on the community part of the Fedora & why we all love it :)

  • Fedora Women's social hour
    +1 to it

@jflory7
Ask the experts track- presenter & moderator take questions from a live audience with topics such as:

A follow-up item could be a post to both devel-announce@ and CommBlog to encourage folks to apply with a common process or template for topics they could be a virtual expert for.

How about setting up a Etherpad where the Moderators can copy paste questions from the Chat and answer them for a Wide audience and ensuring it will not get lost ?

@Jflory7
Might be good to encourage distributed, local organizing by encouraging different groups of people to host the same content in different groups of time zones. Advocates, Ambassadors, and regional community leads are good folks to directly connect with on this.

+1, How about collaborating with countries having similar timezones, for e.g : India & Pakistan (Time gap is of 30 Mins) can help make some new awesome friends from a neighbouring country. :)

@jflory7
I think the Games SIG is a good potential source of ideas to lead on this. It probably needs to be clear in advance what short-term infrastructure Fedora could provide (or facilitate the provision of) for the week of Flock, before approaching Games SIG.

Agreed, Having a heads up from the Infra team about what we can accommodate for the Flock will help Games SiG to decide what games/servers can be setup for it.

@jflory7
I like the track idea. But maybe something more like "Office Hours" is better that encourages prioritized asynchronous collaboration?

I think i like the idea of Having Office Hours for Team on a Separate Chat like we do with #fedora-meeting-1 to ensure that the main chat to not get messy with different teams trying to communicate at the same time,

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- Issue close_status updated to: Resolved
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

3 years ago

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