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

[Alex Leith]

Hey all

Just FYI, the program team have made a call to reduce presentation time to
15 minutes + 5 for questions/changeover, which means we can accommodate 45
presentations and a plenary session for the lightnings talks on the second
day.

The draft program is here (not with specific presentations yet), so
feedback welcome:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tmqjTjK2w6qmbpGJo9_zZVkduPAYU4qTJm2x7K-TY7Q/edit

Cheers,

Alex

On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 13:50 Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> Alex Leith
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>>
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