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Totally worth crossing Australia for. Open Space facilitation style where we set the topics as our first activity then broke out into discussion groups for the day punctuated by food and other, less formal conversations.
It was lovely to be surrounded by interested people with similar (and yet wildly varied) backgrounds and to hear their thoughts.
Of the sessions I attended we talked about
It was lovely to be surrounded by interested people with similar (and yet wildly varied) backgrounds and to hear their thoughts.
Of the sessions I attended we talked about
- Volunteer burnout (conscious molding of organisational culture so important, clearly defined roles, balanced task design, being a culture that allows people to say no)
- Imposter syndrome (techniques for managing, importance of support networks and being open about it both as a management technique and as awareness raising)
- Pathways into open source for women (as many pathways as there are women in tech it seems)
- Open everything - Source, Culture, Technology, Government, Data etc. (similarities, philosophies)
- Role/task hierarchy in open source - this was interesting because I'm used to woman-majority open source and I experience a tendency to value some tasks over other tasks eg, coders over documenters in terms of status. I was unsurprised to hear people confirming that these are also gendered divisions.
- and two other sessions that I can't remember right now because it has all blurred in my brain
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