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[Kacper Why <comotion AT delta9.pl>]

Not great. Which event is it? Which was the event that interfered
with our wishes last year?

-K

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 07:26:44PM +0100, Christian Johansen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the status on the venue is that I talked to the admin responsible for
> the events in IFI and she has to check with another event that is
> happening in a weekend around the same dates as ours. Then she will
> e-mail me asap; but with the admins we cannot know exactly when they
> will e-mail back :) so I will go and double check if she does not answer
> until next week.
> 
> best wishes,
> christian
> 
> PS : which mailing list should we use from now on ?
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> Have a nice day from
> Christian Johansen
> member of Reliable Systems group
> at Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo
> (old Precise Modeling and Analysis PMA group)
> http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/forskning/grupper/psy/index.html
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> 
> On 11/20/18 8:19 PM, Stian Rødven Eide wrote:
> > 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
> >>>
> >