[FOSS4G2016] Tracks/Workshops/Sessions

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Gert-Jan,

yes, you hit the point!

Till


Am 2015-11-06 14:07, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting 
OSGeo.nl:
> Hoi LOC,
>
> In my opinion such a "session" should start with a few previously
> defined questions around a certain topic.
> The questions can be technical, but can also be related to an
> societal problem, or about an organisational aspect.
>
> The presentations in such a track should be pieces of the puzzle to
> answer the question, and the role of the moderator and the discussion
> should be to put the pieces together.
>
> Not easy, but if it works out well its very satisfying!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> GJ
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: FOSS4G2016 [mailto:foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens
> Christian Willmes
> Verzonden: vrijdag 6 november 2015 13:54
> Aan: foss4g2016 at lists.osgeo.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [FOSS4G2016] Tracks/Workshops/Sessions
>
> Hi,
>
> Am 06.11.2015 um 13:13 schrieb till.adams at fossgis.de:
>> What is a special "track"? Is it a conglomerat of talks within one
>> session? Is it a "topic dedicated day" ? How do we organize this?
>> ... and here comes my idea:
>> I've just been in Berlin on a two day symposium on "Copernicus" (an
>> european remote sensing programme delivering Open Data ;-)). Their
>> sessions, lasting 90 minutes, were called "workshops" and moderated 
>> by
>> a chair. Inside the worksohps, they had 3-4 (short) talks and tried 
>> to
>> generate a discussion afterwards. All these workshops were dedicated
>> to a speciific topic, such as "Copernicus and Business" or 
>> "Copernicus
>> and Desaster Management" and so on. The chair was obviously
>> responsible for the presenters  in his/her workshop and did more a
>> session chair in our sessions did. S/he really moderated the whole
>> workshop with their own words.
>> To be honest: I really liked that format, although this would mean,
>> that there are talks, which are not selected by community and
>> ProgComm. Maybe such "sessions/tracks" should be selected by
>> community/ProgComm before?
>> We might dedicate one of our session rooms for one/two/three days to
>> these specialized "topic driven workshops" or however we name 
>> it.....
> I think this thematic grouping of talks is a good idea, and in
> Nottingham 2013 we already had something like this, they were called
> "Sessions", having a Session Chair each (see
> http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/index.html). I think in 
> Portland
> the talks were also grouped thematically, but it was not that clear
> from the program and they had no session chairs (at least for most
> sessions I attended).
>
> This "Session-ing" makes sense and has several advantages:
> - It combines related talks into a Session (reducing the
> inter-session room switching from the audience),
> - A session chair introduces each talk/speaker, which is always nice
> and also helpful for audience and speakers alike,
> - The session chair has an eye on the time the speaker takes, and
> also the responsibility for staying in time,
> - The session chair moderates the Q&A, and maybe starts with a
> question if there are at first no questions from the audience
>
> Something also taken into account here, is that we would need a lot
> of session chair volunteers, but in Nottingham that worked out, so 
> why
> not in Bonn.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
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