[FOSS4G-Oceania] Decision: Where to hold lightning talks

[Cameron Shorter]

Alex, I feel there should be a community day plenary pitch session as 
well, which should be toward the end of the last day, and be for the 
leaders of community day to pitch the project they want volunteers for, 
what roles they have available, etc. Ideally attract Melbourne folk to 
decide to spend the next day at the community day.

I'd say give people 2 to 3 minutes per pitch, and we will have maybe 3 
to 8 projects. So aim to fit within 10 to 20 mins.

I don't have an opinion on the other options you suggest here.


On 13/9/18 12:17 am, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> > I really like the idea of lightning talks as a plenary session, but 
> that means we miss a number of full length talks. The panel 
> discussions ideally should be also ‘distraction free’ - presumably 
> they’re important.
>
> So for the panel session drafted to go at Day 1, 1540 - 1700 01:20, is 
> that just the one panel? Is it just one topic or different topics 
> across the 1hr 20mins? My preference would be to offer an alternatives 
> if people aren't interested in the panel, ie. not a plenary session.
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, at 10:08 PM, adam steer wrote:
>> fair enough :D - I was drawing inspiration from EGU style ‘beer and 
>> poster’ sessions - which work amazingly well for both networking and 
>> science happening. I guess it’s not so easy for presenters to talk 
>> over a crowd.
>>
>> I really like the idea of lightning talks as a plenary session, but 
>> that means we miss a number of full length talks. The panel 
>> discussions ideally should be also ‘distraction free’ - presumably 
>> they’re important.
>>
>> By process of elimination, and with much compromise, I get to option 
>> 1: A regular stream session
>>
>> :/
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 21:52, Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dwsilk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I think that the icebreaker should be almost purely a networking
>>     thing. It would probably make more sense to merge it with
>>     GeoRabble, but I think they already have a line-up? Otherwise
>>     they would be two very similar events.
>>
>>     Lightning talks are also a nice way to break up the program for
>>     an audience whose attention span is fading toward the end of the
>>     day ..
>>
>>
>>
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