[Foss4g2010] Re: Starting preparation for technology comparison presentations

[Paul Ramsey]

Indeed, no matter how interesting the WMS results are, they aren't
60-minutes-interesting. Boil it down! The only 1 hour speaker we had
in recent memory is Damian Conway, and he is a professional speech
giver (among other things).

P

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> I'm not personally in favour of talks longer than 30 minutes, no matter what
> topic and even most of the plenaries.  It encourages people to keep to their
> points and talk straight to the matter.  That's what attendees expect and
> most presenters won't lament having to be succinct.
>
> Greater than 30 minutes gets boring fast (or is it just me?) and the odds
> are that in a plenary session there are still lots of people who really
> don't care about the topic, but just show up since the tracks are shut down.
>  So mixing it up so more topics get presented (with shorter spots) helps
> keep more people interested and will help draw them to the plenary instead
> of drifting out because one topic dominates the session.  If it's a topic
> the deserves more presentation time, then do a part #2 in the normal
> sessions to finish it off for the audience that really wants it.
>
> I'm not referring specifically to the WMS shootout or live dvd presentation,
> but I think the principles could apply well there too. Naturally, the
> lightning talks are very appealing since it keeps things moving, interesting
> and comes in chewable sized portions.
>
> Sorry if this was discussed before, but thinking of sitting through a couple
> 60 minutes presentations made me panic.  I'll retract my position for any
> sponsor who needs 60 minutes to be able to fund the event though ;-)
>
> Tyler
>
>
>
> On 04/27/2010 06:56 AM, Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>>
>> If they are really cool as the wms shootouts we can remove lightening
>> talks...
>> With Jeff we have decided to reserve one hour for the Wms benchmarks
>>
>> Lorenzo
>>
>>> On 21 Apr 2010 01:03, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Lluis,
>>> There was an email to the WMS Shootout benchmarking list today
>>> suggesting that they should start putting together tests soon if they
>>> are going to get presentations put together in time for foss4g.
>>>
>>> I'm interested to know what comparative presentations have already
>>> been identified to be presented at foss4g, and which will go through
>>> the competitive selection process.
>>>
>>> My reasoning is that as soon as a comparative presentation has been
>>> selected, we are in a position to lobby people to help create the
>>> presentation.
>>>
>>> Am I right in understanding that the Organising Committee have already
>>> committed to a LiveDVD overview during the plenary session? Note, I
>>> think that we should only dedicate 60 minutes to this overview instead
>>> of 90 minutes. I would like to make it even shorter (maybe 45 mins),
>>> although I'm not sure if that will be possible. I'd like to keep the
>>> presentation very high level, and leave details to other presentations
>>> (like the technology comparison presentations).
>>>
>>> Also of note, it will be difficult to squeeze some of the comparative
>>> presentations in 30 minutes. The FOSS4G 2009 WMS shootout lasted 47
>>> mins. The WMS Shootout made part of the final plenary session, and if
>>> the other comparative projects are ranked highly enough by the
>>> community, you may consider making them plenary sessions too. (I
>>> realise this will be a difficult decision, as one plenary session
>>> removes 6 streamed sessions.)
>>>
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>>
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