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

[Andrew Harvey]

> 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> 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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