On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Samuel Henrique wrote:
> The times when I saw the "please don't go to the mic if it's not a
> question" was when there were women speaking, and I think I understand
> why they would want that and I'm ok with it*. But yes, It shouldn't be
I'm not. Treating women differently is
Josh Triplett writes:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:54:04AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> DebConf. I'd *never* describe DebConf Q&A as "an open mic pedantry
>>> slam", from many years of experience. I'm used to people asking
>> +1
>> 25 years of
> My opinion is that a speaker should be able to ask people to just do
> questions on the mic if they want to.
should be able to ask people to stick to questions only, if they want to*
--
Samuel Henrique
> > The times when I saw the "please don't go to the mic if it's not a
> > question" was when there were women speaking, and I think I understand
> > why they would want that and I'm ok with it*. But yes, It shouldn't be
>
> I'm not. Treating women differently is not something I support. Why
> shou
> > A good moderator can help address that (you can get halfway there by
> > just reminding people "ask questions, don't make statements or comments;
> > make sure your question benefits the whole room".
>
> That is a very strange point! I am more than grateful for comments that
> are NOT questions
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Josh Triplett wrote:
> A good moderator can help address that (you can get halfway there by
> just reminding people "ask questions, don't make statements or comments;
> make sure your question benefits the whole room".
That is a very strange point! I am more than grateful for
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:54:04AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> > DebConf. I'd *never* describe DebConf Q&A as "an open mic pedantry
>> > slam", from many years of experience. I'm used to peop
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:54:04AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > DebConf. I'd *never* describe DebConf Q&A as "an open mic pedantry
> > slam", from many years of experience. I'm used to people asking
>
> +1
> 25 years of attending conferences I hav
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> DebConf. I'd *never* describe DebConf Q&A as "an open mic pedantry
> slam", from many years of experience. I'm used to people asking
+1
25 years of attending conferences I have never seen an "open mic
pedantry slam".
Aren't we creating a dragon from a
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> > My suggestion is as follows:
> > * anyone can send questions for that specific talk (anonymously or
> > not) by accessing an url
> > * other people can upvote/downvote the question as the talk is going
> > * the speaker has an online dashboard where they
Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana dijo [Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:32:57AM -0300]:
> > I too started off as an absolutely terrified public speaker, and the
> > Q&As were especially nerve racking. I should note that DebConf in
> > particular was especially intimidating, not due to anything related to
> >
Gunnar Wolf writes:
> I really disliked the voting part of this tool, though. I don't want
> people to refrain from asking something because they think they will
> be downvoted.
I like the idea of people being able to "up vote" to indicate that a
question already asked is one they'd like to hear
Samuel Henrique dijo [Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 02:47:15PM -0300]:
> For the speaker side, I saw a really good solution being used at this
> year's DC by Audrey Tang[0], I think it is a non-free service, but it
> should be something really easy to implement it for ourselves.
Yes, looks like an interest
Jonathan Carter dijo [Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 07:18:16PM +0200]:
> I think ultimately, this should be up to the individual speaker for
> every talk. At some sessions where I was talkmeister, I told the speaker
> that their allotted time includes their question time and some have told
> me that they wo
Hi,
- Mensagem original -
> De: "Karen Sandler"
>
> I too started off as an absolutely terrified public speaker, and the
> Q&As were especially nerve racking. I should note that DebConf in
> particular was especially intimidating, not due to anything related to
> the format of the confer
On 2018-09-10 09:56, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
...
Or to quote Gary, from
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/989998209123536896:
| who in hell called it conference talk Q&A and not an open mic
pedantry slam
And this is exactl
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:49:47AM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
...
>Or to quote Gary, from
>https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/989998209123536896:
>
>| who in hell called it conference talk Q&A and not an open mic pedantry slam
And this is exactly what makes me wonder if the other confs r
Hi,
I had my first talk at DebConf18 and I found it very helpful to have
questions during the talk. It even led to a fullow-up BoF session.
While I appreciate the effort to make conferences a comfortable to
newcomers as possible, we should not loose focus on the content of the
talks. After all we
* Chris Lamb [Sat Sep 08, 2018 at 11:11:39AM +0100]:
> I noticed yesterday [0] that the PyCascades conference [1] explicitly
> does not permit any questions and answers after a presentation.
> Finding this intriguing, I followed up to ask for more information and
> was given the following reply:
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