[FOSS4G2016] Tracks/Workshops/Sessions

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2015/11/06 22:13, Jeff McKenna wrote:

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>> 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.
>>
> This does work well, you are correct Christian.  As an example, at
> FOSS4G-Asia last year (Bangkok, December 2014) the talks were grouped
> into specific sessions, and each session had 2 chairs, who had name
> plates at the front of the room and introduced the entire session theme,
> kept talks on time / reminded speakers, drove the question period, often
> making sure a discussion happened for each talk, and also summarizing
> the session at the end.  I really liked this style, but it does take a
> little more planning in advance, and pinging related community leaders
> as possible chairs.

Yes. another role of the chair at FOSS4G-Asia 2014 and Academic Track 
Chair at FOSS4G-2015 Seoul was to fill in an evaluation form for each
presentation. The evaluations were used to select students award winners
and also shortlist presenters who could be invited to submit articles 
(based on their presentation) to academic journals.

Good time to start pinging from the new year so, we can have "pinging in 
the new year" instead of "ringing in the new year"

Best

Venka
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