[NTLK] Online Newton conference

Pawel Piotrowski newton at indigi.co.uk
Sun Apr 19 15:13:16 EDT 2020


Hi Frank,

Thank you for your suggestions! 

We did tests and Zoom seems to be good platform for this.

Would you like to participate as presenter? I’m not takin NO as an answer :) Any subject you pick will be great!


Cheers,
Pawel

> On 15 Apr 2020, at 22:09, NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:
> 
>> 1. Do we want to have 1 day or 2 days event? If only 1 day, which one will
> be better (2nd May - Saturday or 3rd May - Sunday)?
> 
> I'd vote for two days. Maybe even three. This could increase the number of
> participants, since our Asian friends would only need to sacrifice a couple
> of hours instead of a whole night.
> 
>> 2. Do we want to make this event private or public? 
> 
> I would make it private. It's the first time we are doing this, and we might
> have to iron out a couple of issues. If this (which I don't really expect)
> works flawlessly at the first attempt, we can make the next conference open
> for guests. As Doug suggested, I'd strongly suggest a dry run, just to make
> sure things will work as expected when we're doing the real thing. This dry
> run should happen a couple of days prior to the real event.
> 
>> 3. We thinking about to create some Patreon account to gather a few coins
> to buy some small gifts for presenters, and to cover some expenses
>> (web domain, Zoom account for unlimited time etc.). We will ask for really
> small donations. What do you think about it?
> 
> I think that wouldn't be worth the effort. I've had a donate button on my
> site for the last 20 years, and the only people who ever donated were
> NewtonTalk list members. I think chances are slim that anybody who's not a
> list member would donate. But I'll be happy if you can prove me wrong :-)
> 
>> 4. We thinking about to create separate Slack group for additional
> communication, files exchange etc. We don?t want to use existing Slack group
>> (applenewton.slack.com <http://applenewton.slack.com/>), as the free
> option have 10K messages limitation. What do you think about it?
> 
> I haven't a clue what Slack is, but what can it do that Zoom can't do? Be
> aware that I've used neither of the two so far. If we want to exchange
> files, we can always use our E-Mail addresses, which are visible to list
> members.
> 
> A recording would be nice, though. I'm still regretting that the video
> footage of the first Worldwide Newton conference in Paris was never
> published. Once you reach my age, it's getting more and more difficult to
> rely on your memory
> 
> :-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Frank
> 
> -- Newton software and hardware at http://www.pda-soft.de
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