On 04 Nov 2015, at 09:17, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> wrote:
On 04/11/15 08:09, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé wrote:
On 22 Oct 2015, at 18:41, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> wrote:
Just some thoughts on things to include in the call for papers and discussion with speakers:
- related dev rooms: in the RTC devroom, many people already know what the speaker is going to present. Some speakers may be able to raise the profile of their project a lot more by going into another devroom, e.g. somebody doing WebRTC stuff may want to apply to the Mozilla devroom too. We should encourage all speakers to apply for a lightning talk and consider main track (deadline 31 October) as well.
- time slots: lets not ask people to choose if they want a 30 minute or 60 minute slot, lets just tell them that they should anticipate 20-25 minute slots and if we have any spare space in the schedule we may offer it to somebody
- blogs - why not ask them to write a blog about the topic they want to talk about or give us a link to a blog they already wrote and ask them if they would like to be included on the planet sites?
Personally, I feel it would be really good if we can give a slot to everybody who is making an active contribution in this field and this may mean lots of short talks, between 20-30 minutes, but I would be interested to hear how other people feel about this.
I think 20-25 mins each talk with 5-10 in between talks is perfect. Short enough to spike interest but not get boring. Depending on the proposals, we could have a couple of long talks as “highlights” of some sort.
The TED and TEDx talks are usually limited to 20 minutes and they are very popular.
There are two situations where 20 minutes doesn't work always work:
- some demonstrations need more time to explain at the beginning and end - questions and answers can go for 10 minutes or more
On the other hand, questions and answers are not always the best things to get on video, sometimes they just repeat stuff that was in a talk. So maybe we want to maximize the amount of time the video is on the speakers themselves and encourage people with questions to follow the speakers down to the real-time lounge.
Yeah, I had the TED talks in mind when I wrote that :-) IMHO, 5 minutes for questions should be enough, the rest can be taken to the hallway. Now, if a talk needs to do a demo to shine, we can allocate 40 minutes to those. It’s a bit hard to tell on the abstract, but we’ll see how the proposals go. Regards, -- Saúl Ibarra Corretgé AG Projects