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

[John Bryant]

I think I'm leaning towards having lightning talks scheduled at the same
time as other activities. So I'm in favour of either option 3 (parallel to
panel) or option 1 (parallel to other streams), in that order.

I like Cameron's idea of a Comm Day pitch session, sounds like it wouldn't
take up a lot of time, and would be a good way to raise awareness for that
part of the event.

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 09:53, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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