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LDSA <> Eurekathon #311

Closed thecarolmartins closed 3 years ago

thecarolmartins commented 3 years ago

Context:

Rui Mendes from DSPT approach me to scope our interest in being a Community Partner in the Eurekathon (https://www.eurekathon.com/) that will happen in November.

As the main organizer of the event, the Eurekathon is a data-driven competition that addresses societal issues associated with sustainable development goals. In this 3rd edition, you are challenged to develop concrete and creative solutions that contribute to build smart cities.

Because they know that the best way to reach people to participate is through communities, they are looking for a Community Partnership, which only entails sharing their info on our channels.

What do they want? We are free to share the information on the channels we think are appropriate (email, social media, slack, etc) without spamming people.

What can they offer? They offer us the mention on their website, as well as in the event. They would also have a "space" for us on their virtual event. Rui told me we were present previously on the DSPT day.

This event is NOT a hiring event - so there's no CV exchange or interviews.

If we are interested, we can a more active role and have LDSA mentors on the event. About this matter I told Rui that we don't endorse mentors for obvious reasons of favoring a person over the other. However, we can make this offer public, mention that the Eurekathon is looking for mentors and provide Rui's Linkedin profile. He thanked and agreed.

I wanted to know your opinion about this. Should we be partners? We need to give an answer until end of next week. I'll be forwarding you the information Rui sent me (via email).

My 2 cents on this: I know we don't have a tradition of endorsing or developing partnerships with events. After talking to Rui, he is well connected and - from what I've seen - very professional. The entire event looks really really good and they have the major communities in PT such as Geek Girls Portugal, Women In Tech Portugal, DSPT, World Data League. We are well fitted here. What they ask and offer is not that much but enough.

I told Rui I had to run this internally. But even if we don't become "official" partners, I'm happy to share the Eurekathon internally on our Slack workspaces.

Goal(s)s: Give an answer to Rui Mendes regarding the Eurekathon and our participation as Community Partners.

Acceptance criteria: Receive a yey or nay regarding this issue until the 7th of October.

thecarolmartins commented 3 years ago

Hi @ivopbernardo and @minhhoang1023 - any thoughts/news on this? We have until tomorrow to provide an answer.

ivopbernardo commented 3 years ago

Sorry for the late reply here.

To me, this is a yay. Organizations share some common goals and also had good feedback on DSPT. As long as it is nothing mandatory, I don't see any problem in promoting the Eurekathon.

@minhhoang1023 do you agree?

minhhoang1023 commented 3 years ago

@ivopbernardo Makes sense for me that we promote them & Data Science scene in general. My only 2cents, as we trust you to make the right call here so no need to check with me before closing it. You definitely have more contextual knowledge here!

thecarolmartins commented 3 years ago

Ok, this is done and I've let Rui know we are okay to proceed!

Thanks y'all!!