Hi folks,

I am reaching out to follow up on Andy's email regarding our proposed new event format and the call for talk proposals for upcoming meetings in London. We haven't received as many responses and/or talk submissions as we had hoped, and we're eager to understand the reasons behind this.

We want to ensure that the events align with the interests and preferences of the community, and realistically, we do need the participation of the community to be able to put them on as well. In fact, this was one of the drivers behind the new format suggestion where we could have lightning talks as a lighter-weight opportunity for community members to participate and present the interesting things they are working on.

If you're interested in presenting either a longer talk or even lightning talks and haven't had the chance to respond yet, we would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few moments to submit it at: https://forms.gle/rBQopohr6UHWNRcq9

Any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to either respond here or reach out to me and Andy directly. Your input is instrumental in shaping the future of our events, and we appreciate your support.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best wishes,
Omer.

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 21:13, Andy Bennett via oshug <oshug@oshug.org> wrote:

Hi all,

It was great to see so many people at the Christmas drinks.

Since then, Omer and I have been chatting about how to get something going
in London again.

We'd like to solicit some feedback on our proposed format (below) and also
to invite you to submit your proposals for talks on this Google Form:

https://forms.gle/rBQopohr6UHWNRcq9

Our goals are to do in person meetups in/around Central London because we
received a lot of feedback where people said that it was the personal
community feel that was most valuable. Online events of talks don't seem to
be much better than pre-recorded talks that you can consume in your own
time.

We'd like to propose a similar but slightly different format to the old
one.

2 or 3 slots per session of no more than 30 minutes each, with plenty of
time for questions.

We'd like to have a larger social aspect to the evening, including time
during the event for 5->10 minute lightning talks or show and tell
sessions.

There are a lot of people doing lots of interesting things but who can't
commit to a big talk. This could also be a channel for periodic updates on
ongoing projects from people who are working on something and who would
like input or who do not feel they are finished enough to present a longer
talk.

The evening would start with a meet-and-greet at the venue, but perhaps
with food or snacks, depending on the host.

After the talks we would retire to the pub, but hopefully early enough that
people can stay for at least one drink before leaving for trains.

For now we'd like to solicit some feedback on this format and also to
invite you to submit your proposals for talks on this Google Form:

https://forms.gle/rBQopohr6UHWNRcq9

We're aiming to set up a pipeline of events so that when we launch we can
be sure to have events regularly.

Best wishes,
@ndy

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