[FOSS4G2016] Lightning talks

Wed Jun 1 02:39:03 PDT 2016

OK, now I got the point, I think.
It is meant to raise some questions (and perhaps some eyebrows!) in a 
bit provoking way at the start of the conference.
And hopefully these questions getr answered in the lightning talks at 
the closing session, I suppose.
Would be nice if the LT's sort of fit together: what have we reached in 
these 3 days of FOSS4G.

Regards,

GJ

till.adams at fossgis.de schreef op 01-06-2016 8:30:
> Hi Gert-Jan,
> 
> "real" lightining talks have a long tradition on FOSS4G's. These are
> not just short talks, these are lightning talks as it's best. We did
> not promote that or give out a call for LT now, but I already have
> some people, who requested for this. I'd like to have some
> hand-selected people here, who really are able to give a short,
> precise, maybe funny or reflective talk. So that is really a different
> thing to what we have in min at the speakers corner.
> 
> Perhaps we should change so that the LT are at the end of the closing
> session. A good LT block has always been a good start into a
> conference.
> 
> 
> Till
> 
> Am 2016-05-31 16:34, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl):
>> Hi Till,
>> 
>> As I understand from Volker the lightning talks session in the first
>> day's morning (were initially your idea.
>> To me it seems a bit strange to have such a "x times 5 minutes talks"
>> session between the Mayor and the 1st keynoter.
>> 
>> Any special purpose in mind with this early moment for lightning 
>> talks?
>> We still have the pop-up stage for lightning talks as well.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Gert-Jan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Oorspronkelijke bericht --------
>> Onderwerp: Re: [FOSS4G2016] [Program] Talks are scheduled now:
>> proposed changes
>> Datum: 31-05-2016 12:11
>> Afzender: Volker Mische <volker.mische at gmail.com>
>> Ontvanger: "Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl)" <gert-jan at osgeo.nl>
>> Kopie: list <foss4g2016 at lists.osgeo.org>
>> 
>> Hi Gert-Jan,
>> 
>> On 05/31/2016 11:50 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) wrote:
>>> First of all: you've done a great job on this!
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>>> A few suggestions:
>> 
>> Always welcome.
>> 
>> 
>>> - General: give the talks an unique number. That makes it easier to
>>> handle & discuss changes. Same goes for the tracks
>> 
>> They have a unique number. Just click on them. They got "1000" added 
>> in
>> Frab (compared to the proposal system), the Academic Track as "1500"
>> added compared to their numbers.
>> 
>> 
>>> - Day 3: the "lightning talks" in the morning are a bit surprising
>>> between the Mayor of Bonn and the first keynote.
>> 
>> I don't know exactly who made the initial draft. It was sent around by
>> till quite some time ago. So I guess it needs to be discussed with 
>> him.
>> 
>> 
>>> I'd expect a talk by a Board member on OSgeo in general here; could 
>>> be
>>> on of Jody's talks ("a new vision for osgeo" or "welcome to the 
>>> foss4g
>>> community". And wasn't Dirk Frigne supposed to be doing a general
>>> OSgeo.org talks?
>> 
>> I've asked Till, he told me that Dirk's talk will be a different one,
>> hence I kept it in the program.
>> 
>> 
>>> - Day 3: (I think Johan suggested this already): the first afternoon
>>> track seems very in-depth technical. I'd rather move switch this 
>>> entire
>>> track with the land use track (now staged in the Plenargebäude).
>> 
>> In the plenary chamber there should be the talk that most people want 
>> to
>> hear (due to our space limitations in other rooms). I haven't found 
>> any
>> other session where I really thought it must be in the plenary 
>> chamber.
>> 
>> Hence I sticked to my original plan and dared to put my own talk into
>> the plenary chamber. Therefore this session is there :)
>> 
>> 
>>> - Day 3: For the 2nd afternoon session I'd put the "community track"
>>> (GeoMajas etc.) in the Plenary Hall.
>> 
>> I thought that more people would be interested in PostGIS. It's really
>> not about the significance of talks, it's about where we think people
>> will go. Though I didn't always stick to it, e.g. for the open source
>> introduction talks. But we can also move those somewhere else if we 
>> feel
>> like we need room for talks that attract more people.
>> 
>> 
>>> - General: are the 4 key topics (land use, open data, remote sesning 
>>> and
>>> disaster mapping) supposed to have their "center of gravity" at one 
>>> day
>>> (in order to persuade the member of those communities to join us one
>>> day, instead of drowning in 3 days of free and open source 
>>> geospatial...)
>> 
>> No idea.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
>> 
>> 
>>> Volker Mische schreef op 29-05-2016 17:36:
>>>> Hi Program Committee, LOC,
>>>> I'm done with scheduling the talks, you can find the primarily 
>>>> program at
>>>> http://frab.fossgis-konferenz.de/en/foss4g-2016/public/schedule
>>>> The only things left is how/if we schedule the workshops there as 
>>>> well.
>>>> The problem I see is that they are at a different location, right? 
>>>> So
>>>> we'd end up with a lot of additional rooms without much value.
>>>> We could also just schedule the talks there if that's better. The
>>>> important thing is that the video team has a system with the talks. 
>>>> As
>>>> we don't record the workshops, they don't need to be within the 
>>>> system.
>>>> I plan to do an update of the talks, some updated their abstracts.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>   Volker
>>>> PS: Please note that I'll won't have Internet from Thursay 
>>>> 2016-06-02 to
>>>> Monday 2016-06-06 and then will be in Bolsena where I'd like to 
>>>> spend
>>>> time on other stuff. So if things should be changed before that, be
>>>> quick.
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