Discussion Points from LeidenScienceAvengers
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🐼 Participants feedback
🤓 Organisers feedback
Breaks:
🐼 Fika for better focus and experience
🐼 Having a quite room +1
🤓 Breaks + logistics
Feedback:
🐼 Giving feedback anonymously
🐼 Being able to go back to the trainers beyond the training session with personal project Questions/queries
🤓 Having detailed feedback survey
🤓 Provide online space to ask questions + establish that it is safe to ask
Use of resources:
🤓 Organized technical capacity for the topic
🤓 Hearing loops/captions
🤓 Have materials available online
🤓 Offer choice of alternative tools
🤓 Having assistants helping out in the event, they should reflect the diversity.
Category X:
🐼 Training and teaching someone else (i.e. train the trainer)
🐼 Socializing with other participants in safe space
🐼 Patience + encouragement from mentors (for positive learning experience)
🐼 Feeling less intimidated
🤓 Encouragement for participation forex. ( Freebies; if n amount of "pull requests” submitted)
🤓 Engaging with the audience to have their input on session design
🤓 Fun badges —> info about yourself, pronounce, stickers, etc…
🤓 Providing opportunities to contribute/brainstorm in a group (not asking questions by yourself or having to find others, like ice-breakers but on specific topics)
Conduct:
🐼 Code of conduct + harassment reporting procedures
🐼 Use of language
🤓 Having a person delegated to receive complaints about and take action regarding digressions from code of conduct
🤓 Language:
- Simple & less technical
- Adapted for Everyone (both computational and non-computational backgrounds)
Participant engagement:
🐼 Learning by talking about my work to gain feedback
🐼 Collaborative working i.e. sprints/hackathons
🐼 Learning from peers
Feedback driven learning:
🐼 Learning by doing—> problem based
🐼 Interactive learning rather than powerpoints
Accessibility:
🤓 Funding + support from senior researchers and sponsors
🤓 Offering mentorship programs for community members
Community and continuity :
🐼 Get to be exposed to the “ how-to” of the event, how did we come up with the idea of the hackathon?
🐼 Longevity and long term goals such as working in a community
🤓 Be familiar with the audiences needs (e.g operating system)
🤓 Knowing the audience, sending a survey to ask for their;
- Background
- Knowledge
- Expectations / expected outcome
Community building:
Collaboration with other communities (increase visibility both ways)
Digital + visual promotion campaign
Visiting, physical meetings
Structure and leadership + several maintainers
Support, working with allies + supporters
Media; Facebook, Twitter hashtags to follow, Slack
Use of tools for communication
Common project/aim/goal
Social events, personal interactions, meetups
Working alongside and bonding with similar like-minded same stage/career level individuals
Freedom + ownership too within teams and community
Regular/ scheduled video hangouts
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