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

[Alex Leith]

Hey Andrew

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.

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?

Cheers,

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 00:17 Andrew Harvey <andrew at alantgeo.com.au> 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> 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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