[wsfii-discuss] situation re sending invites?

Wed Aug 17 12:54:43 UTC 2005

Regarding invites,

I'd like to invite Juergen, Saul, Julian, Jo and anyone else who wants 
to have a say to a skype chat/conference call tomorrow (thursday) at 13 CET
Alternatively, if people feel more comfortable with that, we can do an 
irc chat.

I think we need to run through the invite lists and discuss which budget 
covers what.

My skype handle is:

tomaskrag

Could people please confirm this and or  let me know their skype handle, 
and/or tell me if they'd rather do irc

cheers

/tomas

Saul Albert wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:47:18PM -0700, Jo Walsh wrote:
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>>hello,
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>>Where do we stand on the invite-list situation, post the positive
>>flurry on this list last week? I liked Rufus' invite draft,
>>especially the bit inviting people to set up their own WSFIIs: 
>>http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/WsfiiProvisionalInvite  
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>yeah - I like this too. We should be sending it out asap to all invitees,
>like today. 
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>>http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/ShouldInvite seems to partially encompass
>>three overlapping sets of people:
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>>1. people we're hoping to sponsor travel expenses for
>>2. people we're inviting to speak
>>3. people we're inviting because we want them to be there
>>
>>Is ShouldInvite intended to be comprehensive for set 1 but not 2 or 3?
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>Yes - ie. travel sponsorship has been hard-won... and last minute, so it
>is intended to be comprehensive for those of us who have organised
>support for people we want (or need) to invite. The list is extensible in
>terms of 2 and 3 - we have an outline structure for the 'main hall' of
>talks etc..: http://okfn.org/wsfii/wiki/WsfiiSchedule but we can
>definitely arrange more sessions - break-out spaces, etc. as per your
>last email.
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>>I've "sounded out" most of the people on the nominal geodata list,
>>to find out if they're free and willing, but not made formal invites
>>nor formal offers of expenses.  
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>We should do that today.
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>>- Should i as stream organiser send the WsfiiProvisionalInvite 
>>to these people, with an extra header to people we want or need
>>to fund travel for, asking them to reply ASAP if they will need
>>travel expenses paid?
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>Yes.
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>>- Who's taking responsibility for inviting and contact-managing
>>  people who don't "fit" in specific streams nor are speaking,
>>  who are only in set 3? 
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>Right now, nobody. But we should do this for sure.
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>>There are a few people currently on the 'geodata' list who don't
>>really know or care about geodata; they're second-wave community
>>wireless people doing interesting things with captive portals.
>>They won't necessarily be interested in or have experience relevant
>>to the 'W4D' book sprint, either. 
>>
>>A few of these people will have come thousands of miles, and it
>>seems silly not to create space for an activity in which they want
>>to participate during the workshop week. That's why we created the
>>'wsfii-dev' list, to try and engineer something technically, that
>>represented the "crossing the streams, finding the edges" 
>>drive of WSFII as an event; not just "workshopping new techniques"
>>in their own domains, but specifically crossing over domains.
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>I think we should bring in 'bridge' people precisely because they are
>what wsfii is about (as far as I'm concirned) - the connections between
>free information infrastructures ... I still think we have time to do
>this, don't worry if it seems too rigidly 'streamed' at the moment. I
>think we can bring these people to segway between streams - which should
>work nicely in the main programme, or in the workshops / breakout events.
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>>Finally I feel bound to mention this once, then hold my peace;
>>i see a lamentable paucity of female names on this list. It would
>>be good to think harder about attempting to counteract the prevailing
>>cultural forces; the only way we can help fix balance issues, 
>>in hacker culture, in ghetto policy culture, is by actually addressing them...
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>/me applauds but feels a bit lost about how to redress that balance...
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>I know lots of very cool women who hack free information
>infrastructures.. kate rich from the bureau of inverse technology
>(http://bureauit.org / http://feraltrade.org) is one (let's ask her -
>she'll be in town anyway) - and then there's Sarah Ewen from Sony who was
>project lead on PS2 Linux (corporate, but cool). Sarah Lewison has done
>amazing stuff - but maybe more based on environmental hacks (early
>biodiesel auto conversion how-tos). Any other ideas for really cool women
>we should scramble around pathetically trying to invite at the last
>minute... (hmm, this starts to look like the African music concert
>hurridly organised in cornwall during the 'make poverty history'
>debacle).
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>There seems to be a general need to clarify and update on a number of
>issues - mostly relating to invitations. If anyone is available at 12noon
>GMT today, we could have a skype conference about this... and other
>issues. (skype.saulalbert). I'll try to keep minutes, or record it or
>something and ping results back to this list.
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>X
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>S.
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