[Battlemesh] Summary of the futuristic meeting

Nicolas Pace nico at libre.ws
Sat Jun 10 10:29:12 CEST 2017


Thank you nefeli for such a comprehensive report! You rock!!!

On June 9, 2017 2:39:37 PM GMT+02:00, Nefeli Kousi <nefeli.kousi at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>As announced, we had a meeting today regarding the organisation of the
>next
>Battlemeshes. I will sum up the open discution we had today in this
>email
>to the best of my ability. More detailed notes can be found in the
>etherpad: https://etherpad.funkfeuer.at/p/wbm-future.
>
>
>*Subjects discussed:*
>
>*- Who is stepping up as mentors?*
>We talked about the mentor's role in the event. The role is very useful
>for
>guaranteeing the event happening and helps the local team feel
>supported
>and not get lost.
>*Outcomes:*
>The organisers of the current year should participate in mentoring the
>next
>year and stick around for an extra one in order to ensure continuity.
>Mentoring team that stretches over the 3 previous years, eg for WBM11,
>mentorship team is from 8, 9 & 10.
>In every event there should be a meeting like the one we had today in
>order
>to ensure that there will be mentors for the next one.
>Paul, Claudio and Philippe have volunteered to be mentors for this year
>(thank you! give an applause from home too.).
>
>*-Do we need a recon team?*
>We discussed the role, value and necessity of having a recon team.
>*Outcomes:*
>A recon team can benefit the event greatly in keeping things organised
>since their presence will force deadlines and show commitment from the
>community.
>It is a costly role both on money and time perspective.
>It could be taken over by each years team for the next current year's
>team
>in the 3 year fashion mentioned above.
>It is possible to try and fund the travel costs of the recon team using
>a
>yearly budget (i.e. 1000 eur/year).
>
>*- Formalising BattleMesh?*
>The idea came to make an association for Battlemesh specifically. Or to
>attach to ISOC or an other big organisation to lower the organising
>load.
>*Outcomes:*
>It can be beneficial for sponsors yet we have already managed to cover
>most
>of the benefits that the association would give us via existing ones.
>
>*- Are we changing the name to something without "battle" in the name?*
>The discussion is familiar to many. "Battlemesh" can be misrepresenting
>the
>event and create wrong expectations (e.g. a winner or lengthy flamewars
>taking place) that confuse people. It was also reported that the first
>phrase of the WBM website can be altered to better represent the format
>of
>the event.
>*Outcomes:*
>Even though there is some friendly competition between the different
>teams
>the community is friendly and collaborative.
>An email will be sent with further information and proposal of names.
>
>*- Are we changing the format for the next events?*
>Many interesting ideas came up on this subject. Adding workshops in
>order
>to speed the learning curve of new people, try and unload the duties of
>the
>organisers via offering a "bare minimum" list of items and maybe some
>pre-backed items (e.g. logo) that they can use.
>It was noted that supporting newcomers is valuable for the community to
>continue to exist in the future.
>*Outcomes:*
>Balancing open time (un-conference) with structured time worked well
>for
>this edition and it might serve us well in the future.
>Booking accommodation is up to the local team and not mandatory.
>
>*- Focus for the next events (experiments, talks, social events?)*
>There were suggestions about workshops (e.g firmware building 101) as
>well
>as moving to remote locations.
>
>*- Duration of the event?*
>This is to be decided by each organising team.
>
>*- Do we want to reach out to Academia/Universities?*
>We already try to reach the local academia in each event. It was
>discussed
>that trying to involve more academics would mean focusing on
>(well-written)
>results.
>
>Cheers,
>Nefeli
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