[WMF-outreach-staff] Report-back from Tuesday, and action items (and request for comment)

[Gregory Varnum]

Some way to identify, recruit, beg, coerce, kidnap, or whatever works to get more experts to hover around and help beginners table. We were short on folks helping raised hands and I think Asheesh (who did a great job today btw) had to take all Windows questions (confirming how rusty on Windows I've become..). I suspect this will be better tomorrow, but a note for the future.

Not sure how well non-techies understood Hackathon - but my impression was that those who stayed got things done and something out of it. Conveying what it is to non-dev types in less geeky lingo may be good for next year or other hackathons that overlap another WM event.

Falling asleep as I type or I'd try to offer solutions to the above notes..but will ponder more later.

-Greg

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On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm going to bed momentarily, but would be definitely interested in hearing your thoughts on Tuesday (and the impending Wednesday). Thanks for working together and being a great team -- mega thanks to Greg for being so helpful as a Talkmeister and with arranging some extra talks for Wednesday.
>> 
>> Things that seemed to go well:
> 
> Good to hear and sorry I didn't get back to the venue in the afternoon.  I got stuck at the DC Library, getting braille programs and ran into a Wikipedian there :)
>  
>> 
>> * Mike reports many people were quite happy with how inclusive the day felt
> 
> Good.
>  
>> 
>> * I did see a few people volunteer as helpers
>> 
>> Things to do differently:
>> 
>> * Mention breakfast food during the opening ceremonies
>> 
>> * Get more talkmeisters to volunteer earlier on
>> 
>> * Encourage the newbies to sign-in so we can get them the exit survey
>> 
>> * Encourage everyone to write about themselves in the "Interested" section of the wiki page
>> 
>> * Find out if people want to do tech tasks before sending them down the laptop setup world (although hopefully many today can do even more because they did do laptop setup)
>> 
>> Things that were sub-optimal that I don't know what to do about:
>> 
>> * wi-fi: ??
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what the issue was but have heard about this.  I hope it's something they can solve for tomorrow.
> 
> As a contingency, I have a Clear 4G wifi spot that I will bring (and can buy additional ones).
> 
> Cheers,
> Katie
>  
>> 
>> Other things I did tonight:
>> 
>> * Email all the Wed speakers with info and their scheduled time
>> 
>> * Email Yaron Koren with feedback on his talk's proposed slides
>> 
>> That's all from me for now. Thanks all for being so helpful!
>> 
>> -- Asheesh.
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> Katie Filbert
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