CarpentryCon 2020 - 24 hours travelling conference for its community

malvikasharan commented 4 years ago

Summary

An idea for 24 hours travelling conference for CarpentryCon 2020

Context

CarpentryCon this year has announced that it will not even take place virtually. I appreciate the amount of work the organization committee has put in, and I am proud of their decision.

However, this conference is community-led, and if any community is well-equipped to do a global conference, it is Carpentries.

Idea

The Carpentries community members are in literally all time zones. If we can reach out to local leaders who would like to host an online conference for 1-2 hours each in their time zones, we can coordinate to have a complete 24 hours conference.

How can we run it?

The Carpentries bug bbq
Twitter conference
Online discussion sessions on Zoom
Livestreaming talks
more ideas?

What we need?

Community input on if this is a viable idea.
If yes, what would they like to hear or talk about or build?
Zoom accounts where community members can log in or youtube live streaming.
People who are willing to commit 1-2 hours of their time convenient in their time zones.
Local community leaders who want to showcase their community work and share success and failure stories with others.

Resources:

All the lessons learned in the community!
Checklist for remote events: https://deploy-preview-962--the-turing-way.netlify.com/remote_collaboration/checklist/checklist.html
Facilitating remote events: https://deploy-preview-1008--the-turing-way.netlify.com/introduction/introduction

mkuzak commented 4 years ago

here is one more resource (thanks to @ tobyhodges) https://medium.com/@kording/how-to-run-big-neuro-science-conferences-online-neuromatch-io-49c694c7e65d
also it would nice to have some up-skilling sessions

malvikasharan commented 4 years ago

+10000 for Skill up.

dpshelio commented 4 years ago

I'm happy to run a workshop (or multiple at different times if needed) about translations! Or multiple aimed at different audiences (technical/no-technical - for infrastructure maintainers and for translators).

kerchner commented 4 years ago

Our planning group for CarpentryConnect DC supports this idea and we are willing to run a Birds-of-a-Feather session that we will structure around interests in the greater Washington, DC region.

mkuzak commented 4 years ago

the good thing is that we can have unlimited number of parallel sessions :)

malvikasharan commented 4 years ago

I have contacted the CarpentryCon committee (Dan is one of them), let's see what they think :) Have a nice weekend everyone. Let's pick this up next week.

ChristinaLK commented 4 years ago

agree w/ @mkuzak about the parallel sessions. :)

I'd love to see the same session offered multiple times as well if there are enough presenters in different locations that can speak to the same topic. I know that building local communities was a common theme in the Carpentry Con session proposals.

anenadic commented 4 years ago

I very much like the idea of producing something (such as bbq) in addition to "Local community leaders who want to showcase their community work and share success and failure stories with others."

malvikasharan commented 4 years ago

@anenadic @serahrono Can we invite the regional coordinator to this discussion?

serahkiburu commented 4 years ago

go for it @malvikasharan! This page on the website has contact details for all Carpentries' regional coordinators

anenadic commented 4 years ago

@malvikasharan I can pass the message to people around the UK who are (local) workshop coordinators

malvikasharan commented 3 years ago

Update: People who commented here joined in to plan the CarpentryCon @ home, which was not a 24-hour conference but even more inclusive 7 weeks conference. Read details here: https://carpentries.org/blog/2020/12/thank-you-notes-by-core-team/. Thank you everyone! <3

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