Re: las-gnome Bad news update: venue space



It says the best time is Wednesday (that's tomorrow). In an effort to plan my
day a bit tomorrow, is that our best meeting time?

On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 19:18 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
Oh great! Sorry, I missed it. Let's use yours instead.

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On Aug 22, 2017, at 6:22 PM, Rosanna Yuen <zana gnome org> wrote:

Hi Nuritzi,

I created a framadate after last Friday's meeting as per your request and
there are already some replies on it:

https://framadate.org/NgshsSY4P14lMzjO 

-Rosanna

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis stanfordalumni or
g> wrote:
Ok, so it sounds like the general consensus is to plan to have LAS GNOME
next year, and potentially target the spring of 2018. 

Here are the immediate next steps that I see, am I missing any others?:
Tell the Board about this update. @Nuritzi will do this today. 

Tell any targeted individuals that we already talked to about the update.
@All - Should we also send an update to foundation-list and engagement-
list? I'll do this tomorrow unless I hear differently by tonight that I
shouldn't. 

Tell any sponsors we have already reached out to about the update. @Sri -
is this something you can help with? 

Decide what LAS GNOME should be in 2018. We need to decide if it can be
hosted internationally or not, how formal of a bid process we need to
have, and we need to get the infrastructure set up as Sri said. 
Perhaps we can do a call this week to talk about LAS GNOME 2018. 

@All - please fill in your availability for such a phone call this week
here: https://framadate.org/uFdIoZzLj5kcCCKu

I think an Engagement Hackfest would be great -- I'll add an item to the
Engagement team agenda so we can discuss it on Friday! 

Best, 
Nuritzi


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
wrote:
+1 as well.  I think it would be quite difficult and stressful for
everyone involved.  Instead I propose that we have an engagement and
website hackfest and spend a couple of days working on improving
things.  We have a GitLab migration also that we could also be looking
into.  So, possible hackfests:

* Developer flow/Continuous hackfest
* Engagement hackfest
* Website Hackfest
* Every Detail Matters hackfest - great for students
* Bugsquash/Onboarding/Newcomers hackfest

The money could be used to set these up at Stanford or at the Endless
office.  We can also talk about what we want in the next LAS GNOME
conference and set up an infrastructure to support next year.

As for LAS GNOME, I think we are in a good position to start asking for
money from big corps as they do their financial planning starting now. 
We can use the next few months to start building the fundraising and
outreach engine to make this conference successful.  Last year, we were
just getting comfortable with the concepts around LAS GNOME, and this
year I think as a team we are much more familiar with what's going on.

So let's make this negative into a positive! :-)

Cheers,
sri


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:53 PM Cassandra Sanchez <cassandra.s.18@gmail
.com> wrote:
+1, also sadly, but makes most sense. Agree with all the discussion on
this email chain. 


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:50 PM Adelia Rahim <adeliarahim gmail com>
wrote:
I’m +1. 
Don’t be sad, it’s still going to happen :)


On 22 Aug 2017, at 12:04 PM, Nuritzi Sanchez <nuritzis@stanfordalu
mni.org> wrote:

Ok, after reading everyone's opinions + talking to Cosimo, here's
my recommendation (and reasoning below): 

Recommendation: Let's postpone LAS GNOME to Spring of 2018. We
should consider having an open bid process for it
internationally. 

If there's interest in doing a North American Summit, we could
do it in November over Veteran's Day (Nov 10 - 12th), and I can
talk to Endless to see if we can donate space for it here in
SF. 

Should we do a vote on this? If so, then here it is:

VOTE: Postpone LAS GNOME this year (your +1 means not having it
this year). 
Sadly, I'm +1

Best,
Nuritzi


Why postpone LAS GNOME:  
Venue fell through, the new option is not ideal either in location
(a bit isolated) nor timing (weekend).

Website update hasn't progressed. Haven't seen any movement on
archiving the old website and setting up a new one. 

Too tight of a timeline to get great attendance.

If we actively plan for Spring of 2018, we can approach sponsors
at the beginning of their funding cycle.


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Adelia Rahim <adeliarahim@gmail.c
om> wrote:
Nuritzi, thanks for your effort especially on the venue. It is
quite unfortunate that that happened.

It does sound like SLAC is a little isolated, with the clearance
requirements too, so it may deter last-minute walk-ins. Even if
they have a few other pros as you listed, I still feel that we
would benefit more from postponing the event to next year; we’ll
have more time for practically everything — participants’ travel
planning/sponsorship from Foundation (if applicable), call for
talks, venue options, sponsorships (!).

That said, if we still want to have some sort of event, a
hackfest would be more appropriate — informal, casual, basically
less logistics to figure out in a very short time frame.

On 22 Aug 2017, at 6:36 AM, Link Dupont <link sub-pop net>
wrote:

On Mon, 2017-08-21 at 22:40 -0700, Nuritzi Sanchez wrote:
The not as good:
- unavailable on weekends. It is available Weds - Friday the
week we want it
or else Tuesday - Friday the week of November 13th.
- does feel a bit isolated, too bad it's not closer to main
campus. As I
mentioned before, main campus is a ~5 min bus ride away

... so we could move the event to Weds Nov 1 - 4 and
potentially try our luck
on the main campus for continued BoFs. There are spaces you
can just walk into
with whiteboards. Or, we may want to do a weekday event only
the week of the
13th.

Thoughts?
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Given that there is a focus on students and student engagement
for this round,
being unavailable on weekends and not located on the main
Stanford campus will
make it more difficult for students to attend. Was the
emphasis on student
groups the driving force behind *choosing* a university, or
was it the other way
around?

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