Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi > No live Q after talks makes it a more friendly environment for > first time and new speakers. @ericholscher has written about this and I cannot subscribe to either of this. Much has been said, most importantly, start small, at a local user meeting if you are scared to talk in front of

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Samuel Henrique wrote: > For the speaker side, I saw a really good solution being used at this > year's DC by Audrey Tang[0], I think it is a non-free service, but it > should be something really easy to implement it for ourselves. This could even be done with

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Samuel Henrique
Sorry, I don't mean "sugesstion" as "we should do this", I believe this is something that still has to be discussed to see what we agree upon. I agree with Steve McIntyre about being important to have good interaction on the talks, and doing the questions on the mic is good for that, as long as

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Samuel Henrique
For the speaker side, I saw a really good solution being used at this year's DC by Audrey Tang[0], I think it is a non-free service, but it should be something really easy to implement it for ourselves. My suggestion is as follows: * anyone can send questions for that specific talk (anonymously

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Chris On 2018/09/08 12:11, Chris Lamb wrote: > I noticed yesterday [0] that the PyCascades conference [1] explicitly > does not permit any questions and answers after a presentation. > > Finding this intriguing, I followed up to ask for more information and > was given the following reply: > >

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Ondrej Novy
Hi, I understand reasons behind this. One of reason why I didn't give any talk anywhere is, that questions after talk is really stressfull for me. I know my english is not perfect, I can speak but sometimes I can't understand correctly. 250 people in room, one of them ask me question and I would

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 8 septembre 2018 11:11 +0100, Chris Lamb : > Anyway, whilst I am in no way suggesting DebConf takes an identical > approach (!!), I would be curious to know whether if we are missing any > new contributions this way. I don't speak in front of large audiences because of the Q part. I have a

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Christoph Biedl
Chris Lamb wrote... > Here is the salient section from the linked page by Eric Holscher: Quite frankly, I find this very upsetting. > Let's start with speakers. Many first-time speakers that I know have > an intense anxiety around having the audience ask questions. They > think, "I am

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 08/09/18 15:37, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 11:11:39AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: Hi, I noticed yesterday [0] that the PyCascades conference [1] explicitly does not permit any questions and answers after a presentation. Ewww... I *really* don't like this - for me, the

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 04:51:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Sure, but that does not *have* to be done during the session, with > the whole audience listening to the discussion, which I guess is the > precise stressing point.

Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Steve McIntyre, le sam. 08 sept. 2018 15:37:19 +0100, a ecrit: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 11:11:39AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > >I noticed yesterday [0] that the PyCascades conference [1] explicitly > >does not permit any questions and answers after a presentation. > > Ewww... > > I

Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)

2018-09-08 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi, I noticed yesterday [0] that the PyCascades conference [1] explicitly does not permit any questions and answers after a presentation. Finding this intriguing, I followed up to ask for more information and was given the following reply: No live Q after talks makes it a more friendly