On 21 July 2010 16:33, Vilya Harvey <vilya.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hiya, > A suggestion for next years conference: hold a fast-forward session on the > first day. > This is something I've seen at other conferences like Eurographics and > SIGGRAPH; it's both very useful and great fun. It's sort of like a condensed > version of the lightning talks (which have been great so far, BTW). The idea > is that everyone who's giving a talk gets 30 secs to come up on stage and > give an overview/sales pitch for their talk. > As a delegate, it makes it a lot easier to figure out which talks will be > interesting to you. You can get a feel for both the topic and the speaker, > much more so than with a published abstract and speaker bio. As a speaker, > you get to gauge audience interest in your topic. Some people just give a > summary of their talk, some people go for poetry or song or get even more > creative. Did I mention it's great fun? :-) > If you think it sounds like a good idea I'm happy to provide further details > on how to run it smoothly. > Hope that's useful,
Thanks for your suggestion, Vil, which I've copied to the europython-improve list, which is where dicussions about next year will take place. Best wishes, John -- _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list Europython-improve@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
