He are some areas that we can work on to improve talk quality. > > 1)Ask the speakers to submit slides 3 days before the event. (We used to do > that.) The idea is to ensure that the speakers is prepared well ahead of the > event. >2) Better timekeeping during the event. Ensure that the talks do not spillover > the 20 min slot. > 3)Request speakers to rehearse their talks.
IMHO, Points 1 and 3 are dependent on speaker's discipline and hence wonder if this is possible. However, as an idea, am all for it. The reason is: 1) I have the material upfront and hence I can prepare upfront and have a more fruitful discussion with the speaker. In other words, I can do my background reading and come prepared. 2) It could also help me decide if I really want to come for the meetup, especially if there is a clash with another equally important appointment. 3) As a listener, i get to hear a well-rehearsed presentation, which is a pleasure. Point no. 2 : I am for it and volunteer to time-keep whenever I come. This is needed. We could add this in the intro to the meetup. Just like we ask for a volunteer for the MoM, we can have a volunteer for time-keeping. Online feedback, is as Vijay says, is very iffy, as people don't give feedback. That's why here in my office, we have printed feedback sheets which participants are almost forced to fill. :( Not very effective. However, what I have noticed is that certain members do give honest feedback and maybe that would help. So, maybe we can try online feedback, provided the mechanism of setting it up is not really tough. Rgds, Ashok On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijayku...@zilogic.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 September 2017 10:53 AM, Shrayas rajagopal wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Vijay Kumar <vijayku...@zilogic.com> >> wrote: >> >> If the feedback is about how better to organize Chennaipy events, it will >>> be >>> useful to us (the organizers). But if the feedback is about the talk, >>> then >>> it will be useful only for the speaker. It would be better for the >>> speaker >>> to ask for feedback (if needed), in that case. >>> >> But, as Chennaipy, we could help funnel this feedback to them? Having >> one tool to consolidate feedback would definitely be more productive >> than expecting each one of the speakers to use their own? The latter >> would cause some amount of confusion, I'm sure. >> > > Sure, we can help out on that. > > My idea is this: >> Publish a URL at the end of every meetup, something like >> tinyurl.com/feedback-cpy-201709 where, per talk, we could have a few >> > > BTW, I forgot to mention. From previous experience, people rarely take > time to provide online feedback. So may be we can try and see if this > works, for us. > > Regards, > Vijay > > _______________________________________________ > Chennaipy mailing list > Chennaipy@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy >
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