[FOSS4G2016] Lightning talks

Wed Jun 1 04:54:51 PDT 2016

Hi Gert-Jan,

Am 2016-06-01 11:39, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl):
> 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.

Exactly!

> And hopefully these questions getr answered in the lightning talks at
> the closing session, I suppose.

Nope, a LT is one short talk, no continuaton later. As proposed in the 
mail before, we also can replace that 2nd LT with our 7th keynote.

> Would be nice if the LT's sort of fit together: what have we reached
> in these 3 days of FOSS4G.

Hmm, not my favourite. I like that LT's are heterogenous and possibly 
completely different.
People talk about different things, no need, that they fit together.

It's really a pity, that you missed conferences with "real" LT 
sessions.

Till

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> Regards,
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> GJ
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> 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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