Hi, I wikified some of these ideas + my own thoughts here: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/PosterSession
My thoughts are basically all on there. As usual, feel free to edit ideas directly on there, or reply to this mail or irc. A summary: The primary goal is to promote interaction in two ways: * Hanging posters in a common area, such as a hacklab, where people can browse the contents at their leisure. They can find the author and ask questions if they are interested. * Having a "poster session", where all presenters stand by their posters and people walk around and talk to the authors. The main question here is how many contributions we'd get. However, even a small number of contributions, from academics and paid sponsors, it would be worth it because it wouldn't be very hard to do. On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:11:50PM +0000, Philip Hands wrote: > I wasn't really suggesting that we require a payment for the right. > > I was mostly wanting to make sure that at least one of the ways that we > present the attendance fees allows academics to present the costs to the > bean-counters at their institutions as though they were not optional. Sounds good. > You, being an academic, would know more about how much work it is, but > would it not be a good idea to require that people presenting a poster > at DebConf have done a similar amount of work as someone presenting at > other conferences? Presumably they'll be able to use the content on > their project's wiki etc. so we'll probably be doing them a favour by > encouraging them to generate good publicity/documentation material. Perhaps... but at least for me, it can be quite a bit of work (there are pictures of traditional posters linked from the wiki). I would personally be on the side of making it not-too-hard - see the "slide format" idea there. Really, it's up to whatever we can get people to submit. > Glad you like it -- I can put you in touch with the chap who came up > with it if that helps. It seems like something that should be driven by > some academics, so that it can be tuned for maximum appeal to people > that might then be able to contribute funds from their institutions, and > also be allowed to attend in work time. You can pass on the wiki page. Right now it's tuned towards DebConf attendees, but I think the format there would make academics plenty happy. - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - boltzmann: up 535 days, 2 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
