Next steps of the OuiShare Fest program creation

Dear friends,

Below is an important update about the next steps of the OuiShare Fest program creation.

First of all a big THANKS to all your invaluable contributions to the program brainstorm. They have been of a huge help during the wonderful three-day sprint with Fran, Maiwenn, Taoufik and Khushboo to frame the upcoming months. Our main take-away is that most of you believe that after the critical success of critique, OuiShare has to turn its gaze to the future again and instigate a new project for the future, all this while setting the intellectual challenge for the year to come. Whilst we don’t have our definitive theme yet, we have a lot of ideas that are on the edge of something really cool. We’ll keep you posted!

The call for proposal is now ready and will be launched on the first week of November and be open till end of December. I’ll spare you the technical details (we will use Typeform this year, the integration with Trello and Mailchimp will be done via Zapier, etc.), but here are the main changes we would like to make compared to last year:

• we decided that it does not make sense to have tracks, because by nature, we want topics at the Fest to overlap with each other. Therefore we’ve chosen 8 hashtags (=topics) that can be freely combined: work, education, environment, tech, business, society, finance, culture.

• instead of tracks, we will have 1.5 to 3 hours of “big sessions”, each one being formulated as a question that combines at least two hashtags, that is to say two subjects. Please have a look at Tim O’Reilly’s Next Economy Forum to have an idea of what we had in mind

• the former track leaders will become a general content curation team, of 6-10 people, that will be in charge of the call for contribution review and the curation of all the sessions, in close relationship with me. We are still in the process of defining exactly how, but we would like to launch a first Backfeed experiment of a few days to enable this team to emerge while defining the key questions that need to be addressed next year. In the next step, the tool could also enable this team to decide collectively on budget allocation and speaker selection. More instructions on this plan will follow in the next days. The curators will benefit from a small compensation for their engagement.

=> If you want to be part of the curation team, please say so and we’ll automatically add you to the Slack program channel and let you know the next steps.

=> if you want to propose a contribution to the Fest, please respond to the call that will launch next week to make it easier to access all proposals.

⇒ if you would like to propose a speaker (except for the first call for speakers that Fran posted on OuiShare Global) please go to the call where we have created an entry “I want to propose a speaker”. No speakers acceptance will be binding as long as it has not been validated by the curation and program team via the call for proposal.

We are all looking forward to having you involved again in the next OuiShare Fest! If you have any questions, please ask the team!