<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>By process of elimination, and with much compromise, I get to option 1: A regular stream session</div><div><br></div><div>:/</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 21:52, Daniel Silk <<a href="mailto:dwsilk@gmail.com">dwsilk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 ..</div></div>
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