11:28 a.m.
Lo!
Really pleased with how well (in terms of ideas and enthusiasm) the last
workshop went. It's given the committee a great boost of things to try
and implement and a good bunch of ideas to fill the calendar with.
We've taken a few views since then...
1. The evening socials at the KPA will continue to only take place on
Tuesdays (where we might normally have had a workshop meeting,
usually every other Tuesday) as we've remembered the original reason
for this decision was to help people with their schedules and to
hopefully see the same faces as both kinds of events.
2. However this doesn't stop us from having other socials (potentially
away from the KPA) which can occur on other days and times (e.g.
perhaps in Newcastle or back in Stafford like they used to be)...
shout if you'd be up for that.
3. We're only listing workshop meetings on the website under the
'Planned' section of the calendar when there is a confirmed
presenter(s) for the meeting that we can list (the name can be
listed however they want, as long as we know you're real!).
Additionally the presenter(s) must provide us with at least a rough
idea of what will be covered that we can type up as no more than 6
bullet points. So if you've offered to do a talk in the last
workshop, please get those details to us and which Tuesdays (at
least Tuesdays of odd-numbered weeks
<https://www.epochconverter.com/weeknumbers>) you will be free.
4. Anything that doesn't have a hard date but we do know the likely
presenter and outline will be listed under 'Proposed' and anything
that is just a fleeting idea (with no outline or presenter) will go
under 'Ideas' until someone takes it on.
5. We're going to have a yearly 'End of year activities' workshop every
year (and after some retroactive renaming, we've done that for the
last 3 years) rather than any 'End of quarter' meetings we've spoken
about previously. This is so we can fit in more proper topic-based
workshops on the fortnightly Tuesdays during a year as well as make
room for ORG Stoke and FSFE Potteries events.
6. Any future workshop that is on the same rough topic as a previous
one will receive a title that is the same as the previous time we
did that workshop but with the year as the suffix (e.g. 'Tabletop
gaming on Linux 2020') and rename the older one for clarity (e.g.
'Tabletop gaming on Linux 2019').
7. We're investigating ways so that in the future if you're a member of
the meetings@ mailing list, then you'll automatically get a calendar
invite in your email (so you can add it to your personal calendar)
likely 2 weeks in advance (or something like that) of a social or a
workshop (possibly also trips if we collapse trips@ into
meetings@). You'll still be able to talk on meetings@ but being
subscribed to it will also mean you'll get these calendar invites
automatically (just don't reply to them or forward them as the
ability to RSVP would be tied to just your email address). If
anyone doesn't like this proposal, please shout.
Thanks!
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Steven Maddox
Lantizia