Corner picking from Haifa (yet)
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nemo <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2011/8/9 Delphine Ménard
* Moderation in the sessions: Have a _seasoned_ moderator in each
room. Someone whose only job it is to cut short presentations that are
too long, who can moderate discussions/questions if there is a need.
Someone nasty ;).
I agree, I heard about a couple of problems because of the lack of such a
moderator.
I'd add to his tasks (or the tasks of whoever else from the staff stays in
the room all the time) to grab a copy of each presentation slides, to be
uploaded to Commons or wikimaniawiki if the license is not suitable for some
reason. Presenters quite often don't know how to upload to our wikis, or how
to convert the files in the right format, or they just forget it.
+1
I'd love to add that moderators however are not necessarily chosen
from the organizing team. Many Wikimaniacs have offered this kind of
help and will: it's anyway just a time keeping, no difficult task at
all, specially if the moderators are not required to introduce
speakers' bios. For the future organizers: if you find no enough
moderators until the conference, just fetch some early comers before
the date and ask them. It has worked for years. You will be able just
to remind someone who you've known on that they'd sure love to
moderate so-and-so a track :D
BTW the small handbook within the badge was including nice. I hope it
becomes our new tradition. :) There were some typos though, if it had
been errata somewhere, either online or in venue, it had been nicer.
On 9 August 2011 16:44, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
Just a quick general reminder:
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+1
Nemo
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