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

Alex Leith alexgleith at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 20:50:40 PDT 2018


Ok, well we have a vote or two for each of the three possibilities... so
I'll add it to the agenda of our program meeting to discuss there.

For the record, I'm in favour of option 1.

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 13:42 Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Cameron
>
> I misunderstood what you meant here. I'll add a community day pitch to the
> end of the second day. Will think about whether it should go before or
> after the final keynote.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 06:12 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Alex, I feel there should be a community day plenary pitch session as
>> well, which should be toward the end of the last day, and be for the
>> leaders of community day to pitch the project they want volunteers for,
>> what roles they have available, etc. Ideally attract Melbourne folk to
>> decide to spend the next day at the community day.
>>
>> I'd say give people 2 to 3 minutes per pitch, and we will have maybe 3 to
>> 8 projects. So aim to fit within 10 to 20 mins.
>>
>> I don't have an opinion on the other options you suggest here.
>>
>> On 13/9/18 12:17 am, Andrew Harvey 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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