Corner picking from Haifa (yet)
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Nemo nemowiki@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:
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