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[Stian Rødven Eide <stian AT fripost.org>]

I think it's a brilliant idea!

On 2018-11-20 16:50, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> So in other words, the Oslo/Norway group wants to ask a Big Question to
> our peers in Sweden: Is it better to pool our resources into organizing
> just One 2019 event, in november? (including organizational pooling such
> as using only the org mailing list and taking down the Oslo-org mailing
> list etc.).
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Kacper Why wrote:
> 
>> In summary:
>>
>> * Agenda.
>> * FSCONS 2019: is it happening?
>> * Collaboration on bringing speakers
>> * One channel for communication for all of orga
>> * PR and sponsoring
>> * action points:
>> - check venue (Christian)
>> - 1st contact momentum (Kacper + Henrik)
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> these are the minutes from Sunday's meeting about a potential
>> FSCONS2019. Present were Thomas, Christian, Henrik and me, so all
>> save one of the orga that made FSCONS 2017 in Oslo happen. Before I
>> present the notes a quick word about me:
>>
>> I am one of the founders of Hackeriet in Oslo and I played a part in
>> organizing FSCONS2017 because I felt I could make a difference.
>> I have a world of respect for what you have built with FSCONS in
>> Gothenburg and I did my best last year so that the FSCONS
>> in Oslo stayed true to that ideal. I'd love to see another FSCONS
>> happen, wherever it may be.
>>
>> I will be sticking to English here although it is understood that most
>> all
>> of us understand both Swedish and Norwegian.
>>
>> * Agenda
>> We were hoping to see some of the Swedes visit us this weekend. We
>> did not mean to be so formal when we requested an agenda, and we indeed
>> held this meeting free of one but since we can hope for at most two
>> hours all together at an in-person meeting, we will strive for all
>> meetings going forward to have a clear bullet-point agenda, start and
>> end time. Going forward, clear communication will save us on
>> misunderstandings and ultimately make us stronger as an organization.
>>
>> * FSCONS 2019: The big if.
>> The four of us present all agreed it would be worth having another
>> FSCONS in Oslo, and that we could work towards making that happen if
>> there is going to be one.
>>
>> One of our biggest wants to improve from last year is that we believe
>> that the event would be better if Swedes and
>> Norwegians collaborated, especially on bringing in speakers.
>>
>> We also believe that the very short time that remains until March/April
>> this November almost being over, Desember being what it is, three
>> months is
>>  what remains realistically, that
>> does not leave enough time or energy to create a conference and that
>> we should pool our resources to make one single event happen
>> preferably on the second weekend of November 2019.
>> One single FSCONS event with enough time to organize it properly is
>> really a condition for us to participate in organizing it.
>>
>> * One channel for communication
>>
>> If we all agree on the shared goal of making more FSCONS events happen,
>> then one point we can improve on is to have everybody share the same
>> channel for communication, to avoid misunderstandings and pool resources
>> and energy.
>>
>> It doesn't really matter which channel that is as long as we all agree
>> on the same place for that communication. In this regard, having a
>> separate Oslo orga mailing works counter to its purpose.
>>
>> * PR and sponsoring
>>
>> If we are to have another event, last years event could have been better
>> in two ways: we could have been on the ball earlier with regards to
>> reaching out to people about the event, and we could have been better at
>> reaching out to sponsors - and earlier about applying for funding.
>> These crucial things were in the air until the last two months before
>> the conference.
>>
>> Since we aren't professional event organizers, and FSCONS is nearly
>> unknown in Oslo, we feel that reaching out to an event agency for help in
>> the matter of marketing the event makes sense.
>>
>> To summarize,
>> are you keen on making another FSCONS happen by finding interesting
>> and balanced speakers?
>> can we agree on a unified channel for communication?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kacper Wysocki
>>