Daniel, You are very welcome, and thanks to the WMDE team for making it all possible.
At Nikerabbit's suggestion, an excerpt from a LWN article about Ubuntu Developer Summit describing how to thoroughly encourage participation from remote & local audiences: > All of the UDS meetings are set up the same, with a "fishbowl" of > half-a-dozen chairs in the center where the microphone is placed so > that audio from the meeting can be streamed live. There are two > projector screens in each room, one showing the IRC channel so that > external participants can comment and ask questions; the other is > generally "tuned" to the Etherpad notes for the session, though it can > be showing the Launchpad blueprint or some other document of interest. > > The team that is running the meeting sits in the fishbowl, while the > other attendees are seated just outside of it; sometimes all over the > floor and spilling out into the hallway. "Audience" participation is > clearly an important part of UDS sessions. > -Sumana On 05/19/2011 11:07 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote: > Hi Sumana! > > Thank you for this very useful summary of the feedback. That goes streight to > our Lessons Learned page :) > > And of course a special thanks to you and Guillome for tirelessly hacking the > sessions into etherpad. And of course to Jesse Scott, who took care of the > streaming. We would have been lost without you, guys! > > -- daniel > > On 19.05.2011 12:59, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> Thanks for clarifying, Andrew and Happy-melon. I've thought of a few >> things we could have done, but were often too busy directly taking >> notes to do: >> >> * Ensured that the speakers actively asked for questions _from IRC and >> remote participants_ >> * More consistently& explicitly asked for questions via IRC and Etherpad >> >> Happy-melon, I do believe that posting to wikitech-l is a way to tell >> people who are actively seeking MediaWiki-related information -- after >> all, they chose to subscribe to the list! But I take your point. For >> next time: >> >> * Include "we want your remote participation, here's how" summary at >> the *top* of the hackathon's canonical page -- in this case, at >> mediawiki.org >> >> With folks in the #mediawiki IRC channel, I've also developed some >> additional lessons learned/TODOs for next time: >> >> * Need multiple dedicated notetakers (1 is not enough during >> quickly-moving discussions) PLUS a person to actively monitor >> IRC/Etherpad/Twitter and explicitly ask for questions and comments, >> plus probably another for backup/relief. (Wikimedia's Germany chapter >> had attempted to recruit more local hackers as notetakers and couldn't >> get them -- perhaps next time!) >> * Etherpad makes it unclear how to ask questions -- chat? main body >> of the text? Consider a dedicated Etherpad for Q&A, or templated >> areas within the notes set aside for questions >> * Encourage other people at the conference to get on IRC& Etherpad >> and respond to the questions and comments from remote participants >> * Consider dedicating discussion time, possibly after each batch of >> speakers, for questions and comments from remote and in-person >> participants >> >> I'm glad it was easy to follow what was going on from afar! So it >> sounds like this was definitely an improvement over past hackathons in >> this respect. Next time: better interactivity. Thank you for the bug >> reports. >> >> Best, >> Sumana Harihareswara _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
