[FOSS4G-Oceania] Plenary Panel Session

[adam steer]

strong typo skills too:

'…yup, strong feeling: speakers, chairs, panelists and plenaries should
commit to the event.’ is better :D



On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 at 20:47, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> …yup, strong feeling: we speakers, chairs, panelists and plenaries should
> commit to the event.
>
> It’s a conference for the community who care enough to turn up in my view.
> We should give platforms to people who commit to being there.
>
> Simple ‘user story’, putting aside the community thing: attendee sees
> talk, thinks 'wow that’s really awesome’, tries to connect with speaker for
> f2f discussion afterward to find speaker is gone. Attendee thinks ‘well,
> that kind of sucks’. *especially* if attendee has seen program and decided
> to invest to see a specific stream and target specific speakers.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 at 20:03, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 from me for suggested panel topic.
>>
>> Adam raises an interesting point, ie. whether a panel chair should be
>> someone already committed to the conference. Alternatively, could extend
>> the same offer to a non-attending panel chair as we do to non-attending
>> speakers, ie. you can attend the session you're contributing to, and the
>> networking session immediately following.
>>
>> Any strong feelings on this from the committee?
>>
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