----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 01:26:21PM -0500, inode0 wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ruth Suehle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Barcamps are awesome, but let's be honest--most people know before they > > > get > > > there what talk they're going to pitch. So let's do it that way. Let's > > > know > > > what the schedule is before we get there. If for nothing else, we get > > > back > > > several hours of the schedule that we use making pitches and building a > > > schedule. > > > > Being honest we should note that the real point of barcamps is to let > > the attendees choose the talks available to them rather than leaving > > that to a committee of three people who don't know who will be > > attending when the selections are made and may or may not know what > > talks attendees would like to see. Barcamps do have issues and while > > I'm not objecting to dropping them from the program there is a cost to > > doing so. > > Voting on sessions in advance would still provide this benefit. The > BarCamp is mainly an organizational method and not the only way to > crowd-source the content. Will registrants be able to vote on > sessions?
There are two views - for real conferences, where do you want attract a lot of people in advance, and not contributors - it's the only way (yes, there are bar camps organized in some semi conference way but). For event you want to be productive and solve current issues - bar camp style fits better. Not saying it's the only way, just my observation from all kind of events. So it's really a question where do we aim now. At FUDCon Zurich, there was combination of scheduled talks and bar camp - I'd say that's an option too, even scheduled talks did not work very well but it could be caused by joint venture with another event. So I wouldn't be against one day of "formal" & scheduled talks and another day spent on informal bar camp style of talks (and no, I would never understand any card game even Robyn tried last time ;-) - to have that promised fun! Jaroslav > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com > _______________________________________________ > fudcon-planning mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
