Making the events engaging

[thomasbazeille]

I fear a bit that the conference days will lack interactivity.
Same during the sprint, everyone might not feel as welcome as he would if we were hosting a physical event, introducing people to each other offering food and groups breaks and so on.

Also this overall feeling will be directly related to what new people think of nilearn and it's community so I think it's important.

I did not participate in many virtual events, but I guess some people will have some ideas ?

[thomasbazeille]

First suggestion, for Software Day.

If conferencing software or third party allow, make a small interactive poll for people connected early (or at the very beginning of introduction) to have people engaged a know a little bit more who's in the (virtual) room. E.g :

#1: Where are you joining us from? (Word cloud)
#2: Mood barometer: On a scale of 1-42, how are you feeling today? (Rating)
#3: What do you expect to get out of this event/training/meeting? (Open text)
#4: Hand on heart, are you wearing PJs right now? (Multiple choice)

Never! ; 100% Yes ; Business on top, PJs on the bottom ; I literally took them off a minute ago ; No it’s 3 p.m. in Europe!

#5:Do you often use Nilearn ? (Multiple choice)

Weekly ; Occasionnaly ; Only when I have to ; No (what am I doing here again?)

#6 : On a scale of 1-7, how skilled are you in Python? (Rating)
First-language ; Fluent ; Basics ; Foreigner

[jeromedockes]

First suggestion, if conferencing software or third party allow, make a small interactive poll for people connected early (or at the very beginning of introduction) to have people engaged a know a little bit more who's in the (virtual) room. E.g :

That's a good suggestion. During the sprint depending on the number of participants we can try to call them individually to help them with their PRs

[bthirion]

See also #14
I think that one important part is the "scrum", where people say what they aim at, what issues they encounter etc. We need to dedicates sessions to that. To me it is key to having people engaged.

[thomasbazeille]

Does everyone agree with the scrum ? At what time should be the sessions ? As we have several timezones it's not totally clear to me

[emdupre]

Yes, agreed with holding scrum !

I think we're now on for two "introductions" on the first day, one "wrap-up" on the second day. I'd generally suggest 9:30a local time (so both CET and EDT) for the introductions, and the wrap up could be at 5:00p CET, 11a EDT. Does that seem OK to you ?

[bthirion]

Sounds good for me.