I am smiling at the idea that sharing one's notes & images on the wiki two weeks beforehand in advance is huge preparedness. :-) And I am someone who is always working on talks the night before... But I have notes/images/outlines, in one arrangement or another, well before that.
I suspect we could find a community norm that would work for everyone, and still let attendees reflect on (and comment on!) the meat of a session before it starts. And it certainly won't hurt to invite presenters to do this. It might be good to have a mix of presenters who do and who don't share materials in advance, for comparison. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> wrote: > I also wouldn't be in favor of a lot of plenary sessions Ah, to be clear: I don't want to see any /more/ plenary sessions. I just mean that those sessions would be the only ones that were traditional performances -- one speaker, a passive audience, few if any questions. (and even there we might find speakers with more different approaches.) > Something what I *would* like to see changed about the schedule is more > discussions with experienced discussion leaders. Not like this year when it > was basically a run-out-time for the session before, but a dedicated track, > with a dedicated discussion coordinator that puts together the discussion > track only a few days in advance to ensure that the most recent topics are > covered too. In that way I hope that you also have an improved experience - > that track could be somewhat run like you suggested (with someone preparing > the discussion etc) and should indeed of course be documented! I just don't > think the whole schedule should be like that. A nice framing. Similarly, I would appreciate a track that was dedicated to speaker-performances: inspiring presentations with no audience participation. Like a TED-talk track. I would prefer more of Wikimania to be interactive and discussion-oriented; perhaps you would prefer more to be presentation-oriented. That's a good tradeoff for a program team to discuss. But presenters could then think consciously about which of these modes they intend to participate in. SJ _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
