From: Simon Lyall [mailto:simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz] Sent: Wed 9/10/2003 11:45 PM To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Cc: Subject: Re: [nznog] Big Geek Programme '04
At some stage a formal(ish) call for presentations should be issued. Before that, could people who are likely to attend please tell me what sort of topics they'd be interested in? Volunteers to present are, of course, welcome. [...] I've seen a few technical type conferences where they have 5 or 10 minute talks on short topics. This might be a good thing for people to stand up and give a quick talk on "p2p kazaa proxy servers " or "Trends in errors in Herald IT articles" or something. So if you know something that other
Donald Neal wrote: people might be interested in but you don't want to talk for a whole hour then you could do one of those.
There's nothing magical about an hour. Volunteers to do other things are welcomed.
How about someone from Telecom giving a bit of a talk on IPnet, how it's designed, how ADSL and dialup gets from the customer to the ISP etc? Most of us have to interact with it but I've only picked up the odd bit here and there rather than a nice outline (including how each dept (NCC, Netgate, CRC etc) fits in) . [2]
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There's nothing magical about an hour. Volunteers to do other things are welcomed.
I personally think an hour is way too long for a standard talk. Most conferences seem to go for 25min + 5m questions and change over. I really like the idea of a session of rapid fire short talks. Some conferences have an "outrageous opinions" session structured like that. We could have a session of 5-10 min anything goes talks. Give an idea, an experience, a spoof, anything you want the audience to hear. The only rules being sit down after 10 min and wear the flak for anything you say yourself. But, all things are possible at this stage. If think you're interested in giving a talk, let us know what you'd like to talk on and for how long. No commitment needed at this stage, just ideas. Also if you'd like a topic to be covered either as a talk or a tutorial, let us know that too. Any feedback is useful at this stage. Tony
Tony McGregor wrote:
There's nothing magical about an hour. Volunteers to do other things are welcomed.
I personally think an hour is way too long for a standard talk. Most conferences seem to go for 25min + 5m questions and change over.
Does this also mean the bar sessions should be limited to 25min + 5min fall over time? regards -- Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2DAY INTERNET LIMITED http://www.2day.com "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something!" Thomas A Edison
I personally think an hour is way too long for a standard talk. Most conferences seem to go for 25min + 5m questions and change over.
Does this also mean the bar sessions should be limited to 25min + 5min fall over time?
Not if 2day can come up with a bar tab.
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Tony McGregor wrote:
There's nothing magical about an hour. Volunteers to do other things are welcomed.
I personally think an hour is way too long for a standard talk. Most conferences seem to go for 25min + 5m questions and change over. Well it is probably better to split the day into 35 min slots (or 30 min slots but that means 20min + 5min questions + 5 min changeover). If someone wants more time they take up 2 slots or 3 slots .
I really like the idea of a session of rapid fire short talks. Some conferences have an "outrageous opinions" session structured like that. We could have a session of 5-10 min anything goes talks. Give an idea, an experience, a spoof, anything you want the audience to hear. The only rules being sit down after 10 min and wear the flak for anything you say yourself.
Actually I came across the concept of "Open Space" when reading a blog entry by Bruce Eckel. http://mindview.net/WebLog/log-0004 says "One of the new features here at the conference is "Open Space" which I was initially skeptical about but which seems to be working astoundingly well. The room where the keynote talks are being held has boards where you can post a topic for a time slot. The original idea was a talk at the front of the room and one at the back, but it seems that tables have been taken over for individual discussions and as a result there are already more discussions than two at any one time. The goal was to foster the "hallway conversation" events that are often the best experiences that people have at a conference, by providing nuclei of interests for such conversations through focused topics. I'm particularly interested to see how the open space continues to develop, as it may be one of the most interesting variations in this conference. It already makes the conference more interesting and interactive than the ones we have had in the past. " I had a look into the concept and found it isn't that unknown. The following links have more info about it: http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_space_conference I am not suggesting using "Open space" throughout the entire meet. However I wonder if such a concept could be tried at one or two sessions to see how it goes. Based on the many corridor/bar/outdoors mini conversations I have seen/heard or been part of at uniforum in the past conferences, I think this would work. regards lin
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