Hi, I in general liked 2013 wikimania schedule. It would have been better if workshops are moved to the pre conference days.
2013/8/16 Samuel Klein <[email protected]> > 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. > I agree that sharing draft presentations by all presenters in advance would enable more productive sessions. > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> > 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. > +1 Cheers Arjuna
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