Future of Goat Session
Group 2
Facilitation:
Documentation: Samuel
Recruitment
- small electrical engineering groups at university – meet informally, try to get them involved for goat,
- student tech groups
- how do we communicate with these groups?
- subsections of the goat forum
- Question: how do we appeal to farmers with not a lot of tech experience
- Start a page that poses a question to farmers to see if they are interested in a tech and if they are
- bringing more people into the group who are interested in farming
- Send farmers to tech events
- Key people within regions - everyone
- community to community discussions
- how do we strike a balance between farmers and technologists?
- Recruitment of investors
In between the GOAT Conference
meet ups at other conferences
- where people could get together before these other events
- ie pen state ag progress
calendar – upcoming events
- who is going – check in
- sharing what people are up to
informal goat dinners – between farmers and technologists
cross polinate and populate
Pick the right venues to encourage particpation
contact card for each person from the event - human resource mapping
- what you have made
- here is what I am interested in
- Here are the tools I use
- what communciation tools I use – git, trello, farmhack etc
Frequency of events
- monthly touch point and seminars
- annual events
Establish a working group
- perhaps 12
- and each has a set date to propose a workshop
Telephone interviews or conferences,…
bringing in other well known people to talk…
Start a working group around a particular challenge and that could create a shared goal
Keeping people engaged
- product launches – attend online … launch boxes, unboxing
- people might want to attend and get participate online
- social media
- bring people in
Propose a working group page on the forum before the end of the
where everyone can sign in and join groups
populate
Next time: Ideas for the Future of Goat
Plan for a winter event to bring in more farmers
Or perhaps only plan the first 2 days and then have the last day open and people can develop and propose sessions for the last day
hackathon
4th stream of events that are hackathons
how many people next year?
More focused?
Self organized streams – a fifth stream of open sessions
Develop some tracks – not always unconference streams
remote teleconference people
1 track of scheduled topics
online unconference preplanning for those scheduled events
Event hosts, or organizations hosting, based on regions:
Funders
- maybe having a stream or a place for investors to come in an scout for business propositions
- not active pitching
- conference remains about knowlege
Speakers from adafruit, smart farm, arduino,
also as potential donors
- Noble foundation
- Rodale
- Purdale