Re: Meet-and-greet in Debian conferences
Hi!
Tassia Camoes Araujo:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 10:23:00AM +0000, u wrote:
>> Holger Levsen:
>>> Then, after the circle people can approach each other and say things
>>> like: "you seem to work on foo, i'm also interested in foo..."
>>
>> This feels like you already need to be very much self aware and have a
>> lot of self esteem, and hence I don't think this format is suitable - it
>> might be too exclusive.
>>
> Thanks for bringing this up. I agree that some people would not feel
> confortable to speak, so it might not be as effetive. But I still think
> that having such a space in DebConf would be beneficial, and we would
> have a challenge at hands, that is to create a welcoming environment for
> all, making sure that people feel safe to speak.
Ack.
>> But! I like what they do at those IETF meetings, where everybody can
>> write on their badge "Talk to me about…" And then all sorts of things,
>> technical or non-technical can be filled in. I believe this lowers the
>> barrier and I'd be very much in favor of such a thing.
>>
> This approach has the issue of one needing to get physically close to
> someone else to be able to read their badge, and not everyone would be
> comfortable with that either.
>
> Another idea:
>
> Maybe we could print a huge "map of Debian contributions", set it up
> in a convenient place (not hidden in the corner) with enough space
> for people to sign in their names beside the areas they work on, or that
> they would like to talk to people about. This way people would at least
> know who are the people they should talk too, and we could also have
> some specific times that people would be encouraged to meet up close to
> the map to chat with their peers.
>
> Do you see any barrier with this approach?
This is a *great* idea! Yes please, by all means. This could even extend
after DebConf :)
Cheers!
Ulrike
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