[FOSDEM] Leaving a talk

[Richardson, Brian]

I've worked on tech, video, and panel moderating (the equivalent of "heralding") at Dragon Con in the US for many years. We made comedy videos to run between panels as entertainment for the audience and started sneaking in content to educate them about best practices. 

This is the original video for how to behave in a panel (equivalent to a keynote or devroom presentation). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r89A-dG8VA 

We've made modifications to it over the years:
* removed the flashing screen
* added notes on questions
   - questions only during Q&A (no comments, please)
   - no multi-part questions, please limit to a single question
      (maximizes number of people who can ask a question)

Having a primer like this may be useful, especially if it can be seen by the audience across FOSDEM. I made notes about this to the audience in Janson while working as a herald due to problems we had in Saturday's keynote (hundreds of people got up to leave during Q&A, it was very distracting), but people who come late won't hear that message (we know this will happen a lot, it's a big campus). 

I know this would be difficult to do in every devroom due to the size of the event, but maybe some variation would work for FOSDEM.

Best Regards… br
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Brian Richardson – brian.richardson at intel.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: FOSDEM <fosdem-bounces at lists.fosdem.org> On Behalf Of Bernard Tyers
Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2020 4:55 AM
To: Lennard Indlekofer <info at lennard7001.com>; fosdem at lists.fosdem.org
Subject: Re: [FOSDEM] Leaving a talk

Agreed. It is very difficult to stop people leaving before the questions are finished.

One of the most annoying is the banging noise of the retracting tables and chairs when people get up from the chair.

Because of this fact, it's important for the devrooms to remind people (before each talk starts) to retract the table and the chair **quietly** when they leave.

If *everyone* who leaves made no noise with the table and chair it would cut the noise dramatically.

I hope we can make it so in our devroom tomorrow.

On 01/02/2020 10:02, Lennard Indlekofer wrote:
> I noticed that many people in Janson are leaving the building during the questions. It would be nice if you could wait until the questions are done. As a volunteer we I had a hard time seeing the people who wanted to ask the question and it was quite loud so you also didn't understand anything.
> 
> So it would be nice to wait for the questions to be done :) 
> _______________________________________________



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