hold an "Open" House event #18
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How about I just searched for "open business" (about time!) and uncovered some quite interesting material. E.g.:
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I love the way the timing of the PG/Economist material lines up with ESR's prediction. |
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@whit537 you had mentioned Diane from Mozilla and Peter from Lincoln Loop as potential panelists. I proposed reddit CEO, Yishan, as moderator. I think figuring out people is highest priority, logistics around food and drinks can be figured out later. But we should get @dmdj03 to make us a sweet flyer to publicize the event. |
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Will there be a "meet the team" part? |
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@jkwade Yes, let's loop them in. Emails sent to Diane and Peter. Can you contact Yishan? Who else should we talk to? |
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@tmblweed You're thinking of something more formal than casual conversation time before and after the panel? What would you like to see? |
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I'm curious about your product and would LOVE to see a demo or see how it works. Like an open learning/sharing maybe? |
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From Diane in email:
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yep, that was me. |
People interested in "open business" and the companies represented. Personally, I'm hoping we'll interest members of the press, so we can amplify the conversation around open business in general and our own open businesses in particular.
For me? Promotional, mostly, if I'm honest. I want to get people talking more about open business, so that I can grow my open business. :) What goals would you have for your participation in this event, and how can we structure the event to help meet your goals?
Again, speaking for myself—my thought with a moderated panel discussion was that "open business" has no one central "absolute truth" definition, and bringing together a panel where we can each tell our own story and having a moderator to facilitate the discussion—between and among both the panel and the audience—would hopefully model this reality.
I'm fine with tweaking the schedule. The above was a suggestion to get the ball rolling ... |
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@gitbiz So more specifically on point 3 ... maybe the panelists each prepare an opening remark in answer to the question "What does open business mean to you?" And then the discussion proceeds from there, with the moderator guiding the discussion based on audience questions and the moderator's own questions. How does that sound? |
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That could work but could also pose this as a debate. I'm personally not interested in debating "what is open business?" - I'd prefer to position this as "approaches to open business." I think there are various models and do not want this to become a religious argument ;) |
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@gitbiz I couldn't agree more! I think the best indicator of the tone of the discussion will be the people participating. :) Is there anyone who jumps out at you as being a good candidate for a panelist or moderator here? |
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We have a few local alumni and current teams from our program -- interested in any? Nudge, Trovebox (fka Open Photo) and Mobozi are all Bay Area > http://webfwd.org/portfolio |
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@gitbiz Sure! Any that you think would particularly contribute to the conversation? Hard for me to tell from over here ... I've sort of been thinking that 4 or 5 is the ideal number of panelists. Too few and there's not enough diversity of opinion, too many and the conversation is spread too thin. I also want to hear what @matin @mahmoudimus and @jkwade are thinking ... |
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I just shared it with those teams + Entropy Wave. Question: how will you be getting the word out (dist lists,user groups etc)? This will help us all know what kind of audience to expect. Thanks! |
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@gitbiz Cool, thanks! :) Most of my marketing happens through Twitter at this point. I may also reach out to the trade groups mentioned above to see if this is something they're interested in. We've also got Gittip and Balanced blogs we can use. Maybe a press item from Balanced announcing the event would get some play in local outlets? Open to suggestions ... |
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I tweeted at those two trade groups:
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nice! I'd reach out directly to as many people that you already know as possible. Cold digital outreach can be tough. In the meantime, Nick of our team Mobozi is definitely interested! I told him to jump in on this chat but may have to resort to evil email if he doesn't have a Git account yet ;) |
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+1 for me. Can you share the location (more specific than 5th & Mission ;) and based on this thread, can we plan for 6:30pm - 8:30pm? :) thanks! |
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Also, is this the link we should share with people? Given not everyone uses Github my suggestion would be to create an Eventbrite or other form to track RSVPs/estimated attendance, etc. |
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@gitbiz Yay! Thank you! :D The location is the Balanced office at 965 Mission Street, suite 425. I'll let @jkwade speak to the time. If we don't hear from him tomorrow I'll probably give him a call, to keep this rolling. :) I think we want to use Eventbrite and/or a page on Balanced's site to promote the event. I don't think we want to direct people here who are just interested in attending the event (though of course anyone is welcome to chime in here re: planning). |
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perfect! Pls just pass on the Eventbrite link when it's ready and we'll do our best to get the word out on our end too. Maybe we can have a planning session via phone with the panelists and moderator when that gets settled too.This will be fun! |
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I went ahead and tweaked the time and location at the top of the thread. |
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Awesome! We can talk format too - if we go 75 mins we def want to include lots of audience participation - which is a good thing. Very 'open' :-) |
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I'll get our designer to create a flier and host that on our site, but the I haven't had a chance to ping Yishan yet, but will do so tomorrow or -Jareau On Mar 6, 2013, at 7:53 PM, gitbiz notifications@github.com wrote: Awesome! We can talk format too - if we go 75 mins we def want to include — |
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@jmathai Sweet! :D Do you know @m? Can you get in touch with him? Your point re: having someone on the panel who has taken a business to sustainability is well-taken. My own network in SF is somewhat limited, however, so I'll have to rely on you all to find someone. @jkwade Let us know when you hear from Yishan and when you have the Eventbrite and flier links. |
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@dmdj03 also, we're branding this thing as an "Open" House, could we use that as the header, or "Open Business 'Open' House" instead of just "Open Business"? In the description. the discussion will be about "Open Business" not the "open source" movement. |
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Actually, I kind of second that point made by @jmathai. "Open house" does sound like a office-warming party. How about putting open house in the description? |
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Nice. the pdf version will link to the eventbrite link. I'll post to the blog and tweet tomorrow morning. |
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Updated the blog post with this png. PDF on it's way. Signing off the for the night. Good work today everyone! |
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What do you need from me for this, @jkwade? I'm planning to be available on Wednesday afternoon. |
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UPDATE: The event is 1 day away. 43 people have signed up so far. Can all panelists/moderators please come to the Balanced HQ at 6pm. I'll take care of food/drinks, and will settle with you later. |
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@jkwade Sounds good. |
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sure deal 6pm! Here is the list of questions I've compiled thus far (some are mine, some came from The Crowd):
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@jkwade Aye, cap'n! P-) |
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Ah, one thing I just remembered is that Balanced doesn't have enough chairs for all these ppl. I'll look into renting some tonight. Any other suggestions? |
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@gitbiz that list of questions looks great. I was quizzed by a former co-worked about Balanced's open business approach a few weeks and he specifically asked questions 2-4 |
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@jkwade : awesome! |
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I have the same question. :) |
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I can be there between 4 and 5. On Wednesday, March 20, 2013, Jareau Wade wrote:
-- Snet form my mobl phoone |
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ah no worries - don't let me mess this up - let's do the 6pm rendezvous as planned. I will find a spot to squat no problem (I do it all the time ;) |
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50 chairs will be delivered to Balanced HQ around 5pm tonight. Is that too many, too few? Going to get food & drink figured out next. Any suggestions? Was planning to pick up some:
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My only request: sparkling water please (wasn't that in my rider? ;) - thanks a bunch! |
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Closing this issue after a very successful Open House. Thanks @gitbiz for moderating. You did an incredible job. @jmathai @whit537 @matin & Chase, thanks so much for agreeing to be on the panel. I know you're all very busy, so spending a rainy evening on a panel is much appreciated. I think everyone who attended enjoyed the event. We had about 45 ppl at the event by my estimate -- not bad. I'm not sure about all of you, but I did very little promotion for the event. I'd love if we could continue the conversation about Openness into the future. Please call on this group if any of you have interesting events or conversations you'd like to share in the future. @gitbiz looking forward to your write-up. Finally, here are some pictures from the event: |
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@jkwade Send us the bill, ya? |
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Great that this happened, sad I didn't make it. Are there any notes / transcripts / blogposts / (dareisayit) videos of the event? |
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hi there @aisipos > I wrote up my summary here: http://diane.bz/being-open-about-being-open Thanks for the interest and here's to being open! :) |
Save the Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, starting at 6:30 pm
Location:
Balanced HQ
965 Mission St.
STE 425
San Francisco, CA 94103
Schedule:
6:30 - 7:00Drinks, warmup7:00 - 8:15Moderated panel discussion on "Open Business"8:15 - ????DrinksModerator: Diane Bisgeier, Program Manager, Mozilla WebFWD
Panelists:
Topic: "Open Business"
In his landmark book The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond concludes:
He was basically right, and projects such as Wikipedia and PLoS ONE have amply demonstrated by now that "open-source insights" can indeed be applied beyond software. Just how far can these insights extend into the products we build? Can these insights extend even further than our products into our business models themselves?
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