Thanks for the feedback. I think I will definitely try to do a presentation which can be used as a generic talk about our work. I guess it's the first time we've done that and it was the festival's first year so my expectations were suitably low. I'll see if we can get food/drink in the budget for next week's election editathon to tempt people.
John
On 26 May 2017 at 19:45, geni <geniice@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes please. There appear to be people there we need better photos of.
>
> --
> geni
Quick thoughts on the festival (well the Friday anyway). Apologies
since I'm tired and still feeling somewhat ill from too much festival
coffee.
Ended up hastily googleing before I went to check it wasn't fyre festival MkII
Free festival tickets aren't enough to get wikipedians to turn up. In
fairness it was rather remote by south east England standards (I'd
hate to see the thing's carbon footprint).
Wikipedia is less sexy that hacking. In fairness the hour long delay
did mean you ended up competing against Julie Bindel which may not
have done wonders for your audience.
We need a sexy 15-20 minute talk that can be thrown at pretty much any audience.
A depressing number of people want to know how to get articles on
themselves and aren't prepared to become pro-wrestlers.
Micro four thirds would be a much more convient camera size for this
kind of thing
They festival wasn't enforcing its terms and conditions on telephoto lenses
There were quite a few people appearing there that we didn't have photos of
Department S were less popular than expected.
The Members won the difficult to photograph due to lighting effects
award (also I'm pretty sure the photo on their article is a copyvio).
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geni
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