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The text below was saved from a repo which we decided to delete and which was replaced by https://github.com/nordic-rse/nrse2025.

I did not want the text to get lost.

Author: @rantahar

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The Issues I Wanted to Fix

• Hidden conversations

  A lot of the planning for this conference happened in meetings. For a new volunteer or a participant, it's hard to gain ownership in the conference.

  Later we moved to Zulip and to coffee breaks. These are more accessible, but still not as public as I would like.

• Missed decisions

  We often made decisions in a meeting and forgot. We then had to go through the same conversation again. I want to clarify what counts as a decitions and make sure they are written down.

• Forgotten tasks

  Some things happened late or did not happen because no-one was assigned to do it.

How this repository works

This is a suggestion, we can change this as we go.

My idea is to follow a single endorsement policy:

1. Anyone can make a suggestion (formally by a pull request)
2. Any conference organizer can merge (and should, if they approve)
3. Organizers should not merge their own requests.

• Discussions happen publicly in issues.
• When there is an actual task to do, this should be a new issue and should be assigned. Tasks that are not assigned to a single person tend to not be done.
• Information in this repository is official and nothing outside this repository is official.
• There are few things that cannot be public. For example communication with invited speakers, who
  have not yet accepted. This information is added when possible.