[evergreen-outreach] scheduling the virtual conference

[rogan.hamby at gmail.com]

Three days sounds good.  Give it until Monday and query the presenters with
a poll for dates?

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:15 AM Andrea Buntz Neiman <
abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org> wrote:

> Here's my yeses so far, including their original audience level and tracks
> (note that I only included primary contact, and not all presenters, though
> I do have that info):
>
> Rogan Hamby Making it Rain : How To Talk About Open Source Value Novice
> General
> Rogan Hamby Herding (Bibliographic) Cats: A Mass Cleanup of Fixed Field
> Data Intermediate End User
> Lynn Floyd AsciiDoc, let's get started Novice General
> Andrea Buntz Neiman But wait! There’s more: New feature highlight for 3.4
> and 3.5 Novice General
> Andrea Buntz Neiman How to write requirements, or, You can’t always get
> what you want, but you can get close Intermediate Management / Leadership
> Michele Morgan If This Then That: Action Triggers are More Than Just
> Notices Intermediate General
> J. Sara Paulk Reports that will help your patrons now Novice End User
> Elizabeth McKinney Consortium Leaders Roundtable Roundtable / IG
> Terran McCanna OPAC Usability Study Results Novice General
> Terran McCanna Batch Creation of Student Cards
> Novice
> General
> Benjamin Murphy Rethinking Patron and Staff Permission Groups in NC
> Cardinal Intermediate General
> Chris Sharp Understanding Evergreen Reports Preconf
> Galen Charlton Making Perl work for you in Evergreen Preconf
> Rogan Hamby Working with MARC Records in Perl Preconf
> Terran McCanna Evergreen Self-Check Round Table Roundtable / IG
> Chris Sharp SysAdmin Interest Group Roundtable / IG
> John Rempel Keynote Keynote
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Andrea Buntz Neiman <
> abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org> wrote:
>
>> So, we have 17 presentations so far including the keynote & some interest
>> groups (and an 18th if you want to do the SQL one, Rogan). There are 10
>> presentations and a handful of interest groups that I'm still awaiting
>> yes/no answers from.
>>
>> I think we'd almost have to go with 3 days, unless we're going to run
>> some concurrently. Are we open to the idea of doing tracks or groupings?
>> Like, "here's three presentations about reports" or whatever.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:52 AM <rogan.hamby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> A quick (and modest) proposal.*
>>>
>>> Since we should have a pretty good idea soon of the number of programs
>>> that people are willing to migrate from the original conference to the
>>> virtual one that will give us a good idea of how many days to plan for.
>>> Once we have that I think we need to pick possible dates in late May or
>>> June and get a poll out as soon as possible. This may affect the proposals
>>> potentially. For example, there is one week in June that would make it
>>> nearly impossible for me to present.
>>>
>>> Do we think we're looking at two or three days?  Are we still leaning
>>> towards the end of weeks as we have done with the in-person conference?  If
>>> so I propose once we decide on 2 or 3 days we grab the Thurs/Fridays or
>>> Wed/Thursday/Fridays for the last week of May and all of June and get
>>> feedback from presenters about where they would have issues presenting due
>>> to other time commitments, perhaps in the form of a poll.  After that poll
>>> the wider community once we know the dates that work fo presenters.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> * With apologies to Jonathan Swift.
>>>
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>>
>>
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>> Andrea Buntz Neiman
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>> Equinox Open Library Initiative
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>
>
> --
> Andrea Buntz Neiman
> Project Manager for Software Development
> Equinox Open Library Initiative
> abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org
> 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) x5583
> *www.equinoxinitiative.org <http://www.equinoxinitiative.org>*
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