also sprach Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> [2014-09-21 03:48 +0200]: > If we could in some way recover the practice to prepare a small > paper for a talk presentation, I think the aspects we are > discussing would surely get better. But I don't know how we can > require people to prepare a paper.
For many subjects, it'd be hard to write a "paper". But why not make this the description, i.e. require that the description be really good and proof that you have thought about it already a lot. There will always be people who write their talk during the conference, which is their problem and nothing we can or should guard against. However, while I agree with Gunnar that we should not select for presentation capability, we should for the benefit of the talks selection in the following make sure to keep in mind people who failed to prepare their presentation properly, or honour those who clearly did. Also, I do believe it's good and desirable to provide early feedback to the proposers, asking for modifications to the proposal, suggesting a smaller time slot, or suggesting to team up with another presenter who wants to do something similar. Sure, you as the speaker won't like it if you cannot have your way, but we have limited time slots available and our goal should be high quality content for our attendees, don't you think? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@debconf.org> @martinkrafft : :' : DebConf orga team `. `'` `- DebConf15: Heidelberg, Germany: http://debconf15.debconf.org DebConf16 in your country? https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16
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