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 <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
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 <lodewijk(a)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.