Dear brmlab, I'm a free software activist based in Boston, Massachusetts and I'm going to be in Prague for Linuxcon in October. (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe) I'd really like to see brmlab and meet local hackers while I'm in town. I often give talks and thought it would be fun to give a talk at your space. There are two topics I'm excited about right now and I could give a talk on either one. It's up to you all whether "Community Organizing for Free Software Activists" or "Why Decentralization of the Web is Crazy Important" would be more appealing. Both talks are about forty minutes long although I'm certainly flexible. I'm also happy to answer questions afterwards or have my talk be a jumping off point for an open conversation.
Tuesday, October 25th is the night I'd like to join you, maybe after your regular meeting?
My background: I'm originally an artist who got interested in politics and then I became an activist who got interested in technology and particularly free software. Currently, I split my time between MediaGoblin (a federated media-hosting start-up,) Open Hatch (a non-profit dedicated to identifying and mentoring new free software contributors) and Harvard where I am very slowly pursuing a graduate degree in Information Technology.
Thanks for your time and I look forward to seeing brmlab! Cheers, Deb
On 08/26/2011 05:29 PM, Deborah Nicholson wrote:
Tuesday, October 25th is the night I'd like to join you, maybe after your regular meeting?
Cool! Both topics sound interesting and you're very welcome to join us! I'd suggest to have your talk before the official meeting (maybe 19:30?) because our meetings get lengthy sometimes and this seems like a better option to me. What do you brmlabers think?
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 05:34:24PM +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
On 08/26/2011 05:29 PM, Deborah Nicholson wrote:
Tuesday, October 25th is the night I'd like to join you, maybe after your regular meeting?
Cool! Both topics sound interesting and you're very welcome to join us! I'd suggest to have your talk before the official meeting (maybe 19:30?) because our meetings get lengthy sometimes and this seems like a better option to me. What do you brmlabers think?
I think it would be best to give the talks either *much* earlier before the meeting, e.g. 17:00, or do it on another day. Another possibility is to just declare that the meetup is cancelled at that week and instead we are gonna have a great guest lecture!
(Rationale: We tried it once with the ASRG talk and it did not work very well. On Tuesdays, we get many visitors who want to visit brmlab and look around, and also usually the talk start slips a bit, they get longer and many Q&A, etc., and people waiting for the regular meetup get nervous.)
On 08/26/2011 06:38 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
I think it would be best to give the talks either *much* earlier before the meeting, e.g. 17:00, or do it on another day. Another possibility is to just declare that the meetup is cancelled at that week and instead we are gonna have a great guest lecture!
17:00 is too early (evil daystar is still shining making brmlab not very good place for talks for various reasons), not to mention that some of us have regular work.
(Rationale: We tried it once with the ASRG talk and it did not work
Your rationale is flawed because there was no particular plan about ASRG talk, plus it was obvious from the beginning it won't last for only 40 minutes. I would not cancel regular meetup in advance and let us see how the situation evolves. Let's be spontaneous. We don't need to solve so many things like we used to, back in the times when ASRG talk took place, anyway.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 06:49:11PM +0200, Pavol Rusnak wrote:
On 08/26/2011 06:38 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
I think it would be best to give the talks either *much* earlier before the meeting, e.g. 17:00, or do it on another day. Another possibility is to just declare that the meetup is cancelled at that week and instead we are gonna have a great guest lecture!
17:00 is too early (evil daystar is still shining making brmlab not very good place for talks for various reasons), not to mention that some of us have regular work.
Yes, I'm aware that it is rather early...
(Rationale: We tried it once with the ASRG talk and it did not work
Your rationale is flawed because there was no particular plan about ASRG talk, plus it was obvious from the beginning it won't last for only 40 minutes. I would not cancel regular meetup in advance and let us see how the situation evolves. Let's be spontaneous. We don't need to solve so many things like we used to, back in the times when ASRG talk took place, anyway.
I don't quite agree that the rationale is flawed, but if others are okay with this, it's totally fine by me too. We can do something like "meetup only after talk is over". :)
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Dear Deb,
we will be happy to welcome you at our hackerspace. Tuesday is the best time for visiting us and regarding your talks - thank you for your offer, we'll discuss both topics with our members and let you know, which one they prefer, are you fine with that?
Cheers Jan 'kxt' Svec
2011/8/26 Deborah Nicholson deb@eximiousproductions.com
Dear brmlab, I'm a free software activist based in Boston, Massachusetts and I'm going to be in Prague for Linuxcon in October. (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe) I'd really like to see brmlab and meet local hackers while I'm in town. I often give talks and thought it would be fun to give a talk at your space. There are two topics I'm excited about right now and I could give a talk on either one. It's up to you all whether "Community Organizing for Free Software Activists" or "Why Decentralization of the Web is Crazy Important" would be more appealing. Both talks are about forty minutes long although I'm certainly flexible. I'm also happy to answer questions afterwards or have my talk be a jumping off point for an open conversation.
Tuesday, October 25th is the night I'd like to join you, maybe after your regular meeting?
My background: I'm originally an artist who got interested in politics and then I became an activist who got interested in technology and particularly free software. Currently, I split my time between MediaGoblin (a federated media-hosting start-up,) Open Hatch (a non-profit dedicated to identifying and mentoring new free software contributors) and Harvard where I am very slowly pursuing a graduate degree in Information Technology.
Thanks for your time and I look forward to seeing brmlab! Cheers, Deb _______________________________________________ Brmlab mailing list Brmlab@brmlab.cz http://rover.ms.mff.cuni.cz/mailman/listinfo/brmlab
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