A quick personal feedback: I just learned that there is something like a community call (a second one even). I might have missed it despite obvious announcements. In case this has not been sent to the global mailing list I’d propose to do so as long as we have not deprecated those.
I’ll attend. Given the audience is rather small-ish (4 persons?) I don’t think this is the perfect venue to discuss far-reaching stuff yet, so let’s maybe postpone the agenda items which are on our backlog.
I have also invited Urban (ZRH) who wanted to present the open education platform schuel.ch.
Thanks everyone for coming to this edition of the Community Call, featuring OTSconf, racketeering schemes on Meetup, funny hairdo for Ben and a new workshop (yes, you’ll have to read through all of the notes to find it.)
Without further ado, I present the meeting minutes: (Also, this is the last time I cross-post it to Discourse, the Markdown editor makes it very inconvenient to take/copy the notes.)
[ben] Yay, first hangouts community call.
[ben] If you’re on Slack, renew your password. And maybe also use 2FA.
[ola] 15/16th August, old brewery in Dortmund with a beautiful view
in Dortmund to build the local community
11 talks + lightning talks + party
workshops on 2nd day
JSfAB
[ben] yay, keeping up tradition
maybe Django Girls
some paid ones
[ben] only for attendees?
[ola] nope, ffa
CfP opens mid-April
Ticket sale opens 5th of April
Early bird (170EUR)
Regular (260EUR)
Discount for OTS members (10% off)
Student discount (80EUR)
Diversity & community (sponsored) tickets
[ben] Motivation?
[ola] Want a conference.
[martin] Not being free?!
[ola] We know, ugh.
[martin] People will not like it.
[ola] Normally, everything works with sponsors. We don’t have enough for this event.
[martin] Just be careful when communicating it.
<general confusion ensues>
[martin] General identity crisis in OTS.
AI(martin, ola, ben) Needs a blog post.
[charlotte] Don’t frame it like “hey guys, we’re doing a conference, here’s why.” This is an umbrella organization, and it gives leeway to all chapters. It’s important we keep it that way.
[charlotte] So, how is this OTS-y?
[ola] Free packages, student/sponsored discounts.
[martin] Why?
[ola] Dortmund is a small community. We’re doing this to grow the local tech community culture. Workshops are not well-understood / undervalued (40% drop-out rate.)
[robert] Local vs. global audience
[ola] We don’t know yet.
[leif] We can tell when signups open.
[ben] What’s the target ratio?
[ola] I would love the Ruhr area (Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Cologne) to come together.
We’re expecting people from Poland, the Netherlands, and England.
[martin] Excited. Need to get the word out.
[ola] I’m hoping for a continuation of OTSconf; not necessarily at Dortmund.
@robert I think a list of participants is missing. It’s hard to tell later by short names within the text. Maybe also add chapter or whatever helpful extra info.
A participant list is available over at the G+ event.
For posterity: I think it was Ola and Leif from Dortmund/OTSConf, Martin from Berlin, Robert from Berlin/Zurich, Charlotte and Ben from Berlin/Hackership/some exotic location,
Feedback noted for next time, the notes-taking was very ad-hoc for this round.
Do we want to keep this on a Friday? I think it might constrain quite some members from coming. (Also, it excludes Australia by pure virtue of their timezone I guess.)
