Working idea #2: #ossoapbox

[emmyft]

(This is very much based on the idea for Mozfest 2017 from @npscience )

Motivations:

• give open science open-source innovators a space to get feedback from a diverse audience, and practice their communication
• give the audience an idea of the latest innovations in the open science problem domain, and how they can contribute
• show people that it's possible to initiate grassroots changes and projects!

Format:

• lightning talks (with specific CTA) + heavy Q&A (This could replace the open-source community call that is supposed to happen in Oct 2019)
• sketch notes?
• live tweets @eLifeInnovation
• remote presentations

Risks:

• What if no one asks questions?
• The audience doesn't understand– how to better engage?

Options to explore:

• Theme: AI?
• What projects to include, do we organise an open agenda like we do the open-source community calls?
• Do we entertain spontaneous project additions? (Yes!)

[npscience]

And this happened organically in 2018 with @marcosvital leading 🌟

[npscience]

Re sketch notes: hiring professional = £££ and difficult to wrangle on a weekend (I thought about it for 2017). So is there someone in the community who'd like to try this out? Or several people to take turns? I think visual notes are wonderful keepsakes (and can be displayed and shared on social, etc)

If I go to Mozfest, I would volunteer to live sketch 1 or 2 talks!

[emmyft]

I'm thinking exactly having people take turns! Or any volunteers? I can also ask around eLife (the argument is strong: it's a much more digestible record of the talks, and tend to gain good social traction)

My biggest worry is still not gathering a big enough audience. I also think it's important to make sure we can live stream it (even if just audio) and accept remote questions. Does anyone have ideas on how that could be done?

[emmyft]

I've just started a draft for the proposal! See #4

Closing this issue and moving all discussion to the pull request #4 (: