flock-planning August 2016

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Flock 2016 Speaker Badges
by Brian Exelbierd 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

Who is taking ownership of this? I keep seeing requests come up in various channels. I see that only 6 or so have actually been awarded. I am not sure who can even award this badge, if it was me, I'd try to get on it :) Peter, can you provide a list of speakers from the database? Thanks, bex

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Few post-Flock thoughts
by Rafal Luzynski 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Hi, I'd like to share few of my post-Flock thoughts mostly focusing on what we did wrong. Please take it as my personal feedback in order to improve organization of the future conferences. First of all, I must admit that most of the things went OK so these nitpicks are really minor and small. 0. If you offer your phone number as an emergency number for the conference attendees make sure the phone is always charged and you always carry it with you. According to Murphy's law, whenever you leave your phone at your place or let it be discharged one person gets lost or needs your help for whatever reason. :-) 1. We should have issued a "ticket" system for the buses to the Browar Lubicz party. We ordered two cruises of one bus for two reasons: first, 250 people were not supposed to fit into one bus, second, the minimum order of a bus is large enough to make 2 or maybe even 3 cruises. It turned out that the second cruise took only 7 passengers while the first one was full. One bus should take about 160 passengers. Unfortunately, there is no system which stops more passengers to enter the bus. According to what we nicknamed Student's theorem during my university years, every bus can take one more student. :-) I guess we managed to fit 240 people into the bus. Alternative explanation is that there were only 170 people at the party. There was no such problem on other events because we had intercity quality buses with sitting places only, there was a simple rule: no more seats = no more passengers. Somehow this problem also did not arise at the ship party: we had to split into 2 groups, one was eating and another was cruising and then we had to swap and as far as I noticed we did split into 2 roughly equal groups smoothly. 2. IMHO we should not also worry about splitting all attendees into 2 separate groups during the ship cruise. Originally we were trying to make sure we are all at the same place and it led us to the problem that there was no large enough ship in Krakow to take 250 people for a cruise. The aim was to ensure we all integrate. But we actually were split and I don't find it was a problem. You can't integrate with 250 people at the same time. You can integrate with 10 or 20 or slightly more but even 100 is impossible. 3. The last official conference event was the wallpaper hunt, attended by 8 people only. We took a long walk to the tram balloon loop and now I think it was an unnecessary waste of time. It would be better to spend one more PLN and take a bus from the hotel to the tram stop. Also it would be better if one person collected the money and bought tickets for everyone instead of making a queue and letting everyone to buy tickets for oneself. The system I proposed would be good if we were a group of 10-20 people and bought one group ticket. OTOH I hope the attendees enjoyed the tram ride. Best regards, Rafal

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Fwd: [Marketing] Flock summary article for the Magazine
by Justin W. Flory 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

Hi, On the Marketing list, Natalie Ardasevova is working on creating the "big" report of Flock 2016 on the Fedora Magazine. I wanted to highlight her email here on this list since she was asking for guidance on key points to highlight and what amount of content would be good to cover. I figured it might be good for some of the folks in Flock organization / planning to have some input on this since it will be a prominent article summarizing Flock for the entire community. If you could, please direct replies to the Marketing list in this thread: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/marketing@lists.fedoraproject… Email is quoted below as well for your convenience. Thanks all! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Marketing] Flock summary article for the Magazine Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 12:55:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Ardasevova <nardasev(a)redhat.com> Reply-To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> To: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Hi guys, I promised you I would write a Flock summary article about Flock for the Magazine. I should do it soon, and wanted to ask if you have any points which you'd like to see there? The suggestions you gave me for the pre-event article helped me a lot. It would help now as well so I know what to focus on. Should I highlight the keynotes? Conference life? It is not as much a personal view like a blog post, but a more general information... so I need your help :) I assume it would also include links to the videos and transcriptions? Thank you, Natalie Ardasevova nardasev(a)redhat.com Marketing Communications Specialist -- Fedora Marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/marketing@lists.fedoraproject.o…

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Flock bid process: Wiki gardening
by Justin W. Flory 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hello all, I just wanted to share that I went through the "Flock bid process" page and attempted to bring it up to date for Flock 2017 and anyone interested in putting together proposals for next year. I tried making the page a little more date-agnostic, but would appreciate if someone with more information would also take a look. Thanks! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock_bid_process -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7(a)gmail.com

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are speaker's "Lightning Talks" speakers ?
by Jean-Baptiste Holcroft 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

hi, thanks for great organization ! Do you consider the persons who came through for a 5 minutes wild presentation as speaker ? Here is the list : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock/Lightning_Talks_2016 Yes, I'm one of them and would proudly wear a panda-teacher-badge ;) https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/flock-2016-speaker thanks for your help

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