<div dir="ltr">Hey Andrew<div><br></div><div>The panel session is just one session, but I've found that that amount of time usually gets eaten up pretty easily. It's a nice light way to end the day, and involving the audience means that it's a good conversation.</div><div><br></div><div>We've got a couple of votes for option 3 currently, so splitting the final plenary panel session and running lightning talks at the same time. Any dissenters?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 00:17 Andrew Harvey <<a href="mailto:andrew@alantgeo.com.au">andrew@alantgeo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">> 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.<br></div>
<div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div>
</div><div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">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.<br></div></div><div>
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<div>On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, at 10:08 PM, adam steer wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br></div>
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<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.<br></div>
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<div>By process of elimination, and with much compromise, I get to option 1: A regular stream session<br></div>
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<div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 21:52, Daniel Silk <<a href="mailto:dwsilk@gmail.com" target="_blank">dwsilk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<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 ..<br></div>
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