Thank you very much for your thoughts and suggestions Lea! I'll be sure to pass them on to the rest of the team.
Personally, I think the strength of the Techstorm is its very personal approach: this is where the Techstorm actually differs from a 'normal' hackathon. I am afraid this will not work in an online environment and would rather wait an extra few months to be able to organize it again as a physical event. I think the one thing we all are learning from COVID is to practise patience: for some things there simply is no good online substitute. But I am not the only person on the team, and this surely needs to be discussed in a broader way. WMNL is having an online Wiki Saturday this Saturday for all interested volunteers about the activities in the annual plan, and this surely will be a talking point. Vriendelijke groet, Ciell Op ma 8 feb. 2021 om 23:04 schreef Leila Zia <l...@wikimedia.org>: > Hi Ciell, > > I did a pass over your report and I want to share a few thoughts with > you and the rest of the team. > > * First: Thank you so much for organizing another Techstorm in 2019 > and writing/sharing this report. Increasing the diversity of those who > choose to participate in the Wikimedia projects is important and your > knowledge sharing is immensely helpful. > > * 63 participants is a really good number. Congratulations! I also > appreciate that you set a high bar for the target distribution of > attendees. Ambitious (but not over-ambitious) targets can help us grow > and learn. One thing we learned (in 2020) when organizing Wiki > Workshop [1] was that when there is no fee for registration, we get > twice the actual number of participants registering. Something you can > consider is to allow for more registrations than what you can > physically accommodate (to a limit), with the understanding that there > will always be some no-shows/cancellations. > > * I have a suggestion for how you conduct the survey: consider doing > it during the event and dedicating 15-min time to it. I understand > some people may prefer to take their time and do it later, but by > asking people to do it right there, you may get a higher response > rate. (Chasing folks after the event for surveys is not fun for either > side.;) > > * Core organizing team size: Looking at the 2019 team, I totally agree > with you. A few more volunteers at the core level will be very > helpful. They also can make it more fun as you can bounce ideas > back-and-forth with them and collaborate. :) > > * For 2021: consider a virtual event if a physical one is not possible > and if you have bandwidth to work on it. A lot of people are isolated > because of the pandemic and they look forward to finding ways to > connect with others, learn new skills, etc. > > I want to close this email by thanking you all again. I also want to > thank you personally, Ciell, for the spirit of collaboration and fun > you bring to the projects you get involved in, and your dedication to > community building. What you all are doing is not easy, especially as > numbers won't do justice to the impact of the work. Thank you for > keeping up and organizing this event. > > If there is something I can do to support you, please reach out. > > Best, > Leila > > > [1] https://wikiworkshop.org/ > > -- > Leila Zia > Head of Research > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:56 AM Ciell Wikipedia > <ciell.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > It gives me great pleasure to (finally) share with you the evaluation > report of the Techstorm* 2019. Though the Techstorm was organized in > November 2019, other priorities came to play for the organisational team > due to the global pandemic, but over the past festive season and after, we > finally found the time to finish up our evaluation report. > > > > Please go to the pdf-file on Commons to read more about the vision > behind the Techstorm, the goals of the event, our metrics and, last but not > least, our lessons learned. > > > > A new Techstorm 2021 is in the Dutch chapters' annual plan, but if Covid > regulations will not permit these gatherings we will ask WMNL to include a > Techstorm in the annual plan 2022. > > > > Keep techstorming every one! > > > > Vriendelijke groet, > > Ciell > > > > * Techstorming is like brainstorming in a technical environment. 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