Hi Shrayas, Yes, I think it could be more clear that 20 minutes is the timebox, and that presentations don't have to be 20 minutes long. I assumed wrong, so others may have as well.
Even though this is an easy going group, some of the most introverted folks can still be a little intimidated. I encourage people to practice on their own or with a small group of friends in their own office perhaps. I admit my original suggestion is quite idealistic. As for group presentations, I'm excited to see what people come up with! James On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shray...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:20 AM, James Mortensen > <james.morten...@synclio.com> wrote: > > [...] > > > Making the lightning talks 20 minutes instead of 10 might make the idea > of > > giving a talk scarier to some people, so maybe we can have some > flexibility > > there for first time speakers. > > Maybe we should make the messaging clear. A better model would be to > have talks that can be all the way from 5 minutes to 20 minutes? I > don't think we decided anywhere that talks *should* be 20 minutes > long? > > > Also, I think another idea that could help is if we could get a group to > > help people prepare for their speeches. In my public speaking class in > > college, the instructor suggested we practice in the same place where > we'd > > be giving the speech, so maybe IMSc would let a group come in on the 3rd > > Saturday to practice in front of a small group of people. > > This sounds like an idealistic thing to do but the availability of > people and the venue would become very big variables in the execution > of such a plan. For example: I would really love to help people with > their presentations and patter but I work on 3rd Saturdays so it would > not be possible for me to make it in spite of the fact that I'd want > to help. > > Maybe another way to think of this would be to use talks at user > groups like Chennaipy as practice for higher level conferences like > the PyCons. We're a closely knit set of people with a lot of us being > recurring members now. Many of us want to help each other and I don't > think there will be too much of judgement imposed on first time > speakers (if any at all). > > > Another idea is to do group presentations. We have people who I suspect > > would be more comfortable if they were up on stage with another person > and > > not just themselves. > > This I like and something that I will +1 for. I don't know why this > hasn't come up yet. Group presentations make sense now that we can > have talks for 20 minutes. > _______________________________________________ > Chennaipy mailing list > Chennaipy@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy >
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