Re: Proposal for a Women's Dinner at GUADEC 2017

Allan <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:15:22 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.guadec
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hey Nuritzi,

Nuritzi Sanchez <[email protected]> wrote:
...
> 
> After looking at Plans A - D on that page, I propose the following:
> 
>> Friday:
>> - Plan A: games and picnic in the park
>> 
>> Saturday:
>> - 20th Bday Party
>> 
>> Sunday:
>> - Plan B: football game and dinner (could plan football directly 
>> after GUADEC closes, then dinner around 20:00. The women's dinner 
>> would be an option at that time)
>> 
>> AND
>> 
>> - Plan D: pub/drinks at night (could start around 22:00)
> 
>  I know there were issues booking venues though. Could you please add 
> any information about issues we're hitting into the wiki page? Maybe 
> we can help brainstorm alternatives.

Activities in a public park aren't possible in Manchester, 
unfortunately.

>> > How: Perhaps we can have a place at the venue that lists the 
>> social events
>> > happening throughout the conference? This would allow other groups 
>> to give
>> > exposure to their events and would also allow people who are new to
>> > GUADEC/didn't see the announcement about a women's dinner before 
>> to sign up.
>> 
>> There will be a notice board by the reception desk so putting up
>> posters there would work. If we know about the events in advance we
>> can also announce them during the opening and/or closing talks.
> 
> Could we have a whiteboard or large poster with all of the social 
> events in one place so that groups don't have to make their own 
> posters?

I'm hoping that we'll be able to have some kind of noticeboard near the 
information desk, and I'm maintaining a list of notices to have on 
there. It includes details of the social events:

https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2017/Printing

Allan

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