2024 Open edX Conference & Coworking - July 1st-12th

[DouglasDraper]

I believe I missed the window for the poll but am a YES for the Capetown trip.

[cassie]

@DouglasDraper and @kaustav will you get in touch with Cay and discuss the details of booking the trip? I see there are about 11, 12 including you Doug that are interested

[maxim (Maxim Beder)]

@cassie @kaustav I missed the poll. I’d like to participate as well. Hope it’s not too late.

[kaustav (Kaustav Banerjee)]

@cassie

will you get in touch with Cay and discuss the details of booking the trip? I see there are about 11, 12 including you Doug that are interested

@cassie Sure, I will discuss this with Cay.

@maxim

I missed the poll. I’d like to participate as well. Hope it’s not too late.

@maxim Not too late at all. Glad you can join us.

[DouglasDraper]

@cassie @kaustav As of today, Cay didn’t know if we’re a go or not on the Capetown trip and the date. I read we’ve got 11-12 people who want to go and I think the date is July 13th, correct? Should I let Cay know? Thanks!

[kaustav (Kaustav Banerjee)]

Thanks @DouglasDraper … As per this poll around 10 of us are interested in the day trip to Cape Town (not sure if the poll includes you, if not then it’s 11).

And 13th July, I think should work best for this. I was looking to convey all this to Cay this week (during our planned meeting to discuss the safari trip), but the meeting is yet to take place. I can email her instead, unless you are already in conversation with her about the day trip.

[gabriel (Gabriel D'Amours)]

@Ali I was finally able to get clarity on my July schedule… and unfortunately I won’t be able to make it to South Africa at all I’m moving to a new apartment on July 1st, then I need to be on-site for an (important) consulting contract for a few days the following week. Had I known earlier that this year’s conference would happen in July, I would have organized it differently – I wrongly assumed that it would happen somewhere in April or May, like in previous years. That’s too bad, I would have really loved to see everyone again. Oh well, I’m looking forward to reading about the team’s adventures!

[braden (Braden MacDonald)]

@DouglasDraper

We discussed a safari-type trip to Kruger National Park, the largest wildlife reserve in the world during the week following July 14th.

@DouglasDraper I’m definitely interested in this! When do you think we might hear more about it? I’m holding off on booking any flights etc. for now since this would change the dates.

[Ali]

@gabriel Oh no! That’s too bad. It would’ve been fun to hang out IRL again. We’ll have to make up for lost time in 2025 .

[kaustav (Kaustav Banerjee)]

@braden

I’m definitely interested in this! When do you think we might hear more about it? I’m holding off on booking any flights etc. for now since this would change the dates.

@braden This is great. I already forwarded you the trip details, but sharing it here too for anyone else who might be interested.

Me and @DouglasDraper are looking at doing a 5 day trip there starting from 15th July.

Quote - Kruger.pdf (3.6 MB)

[DouglasDraper]

Sorry @braden don’t know I wasn’t pinged on your message. Yes, Cay today provided an updated quote for 3 to 5 days at Kruger which I’ll send you now. @kaustav and I are leaning towards a trip from July 15-20.

[braden (Braden MacDonald)]

Great, I’m in for the safari!

[Agrendalath (Piotr Surowiec)]

This looks amazing! Are we planning this as a team-wide activity? Or should we sign up individually?

[kaustav (Kaustav Banerjee)]

@Agrendalath

We are planning to do the safari trip to Kruger after the co-working week and so technically we are signing up individually. But we do have a common email chain, so that Cay (she is arranging everything for us), can organize the same domestic flights from Cape Town, common transfers, etc.

[jill (Jillian Vogel)]

@braden

Great, I’m in for the safari!

Me too! I don’t know when I’ll make it back to SA, so want to see everything I can.

I’d also love to do a balloon ride during those 5 days at Kruger… Is anyone else interested? est R4800 pp

[kaustav (Kaustav Banerjee)]

@jill

Me too! I don’t know when I’ll make it back to SA, so want to see everything I can.

This is great !!

I spoke to Cay this morning and mentioned that you and @Agrendalath might also be interested in doing the safari. She said that one lodge might not be able to accommodate all of us, so she might have to split us into two nearby lodges.

[tecoholic (Arunmozhi)]

Anyone from India applying via the eVISA thing get asked for a Police Clearance Certificate? I am guessing I might have inadverdently selected the wrong Visa sub category. Mine says Section 11(1)(A).

cc: @kaustav @farhaan ??

[jill (Jillian Vogel)]

@kaustav

@jill

Me too! I don’t know when I’ll make it back to SA, so want to see everything I can.

This is great !!

Sigh. I looked at all the costs for the trip, and I can’t do Kruger I’ll still do the Cape Town day trip, but am leaving the following Monday. I’ve commented on Cay’s spreadsheet to let her know, and updated my flight details everywhere.

Hope you all have a beautiful time though!

[cassie]

@team Would any OpenCraft Core Contributors be interested in being an Open edX Conference Ambassador? An ambassador would help promote the conference across their social media by posting a pre-created social media post on any platform of their choice at least once a month. I will also post the ambassador posts on our OpenCraft’s LinkedIn.

If you’d like to volunteer, please let me know over the next day or so. I’ll need the following (you can send via Mattermost or Email):

• Photo of you
• Your title
• Possibly a quote

Here’s what the post will more or less look like:

[DouglasDraper]

Hi @cassie , thanks for sending this as it’s important to get the word out to clients and folks in general. I mentioned to Eden this week that I’m happy to volunteer.Douglas Draper Photo