On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 04:11:29PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
> > I'm all for encouraging first-time speakers, but Q&A at the end of a
> > session are valuable too; as such, to me, outlawing Q&A is a bit like
> > throwing the kid out with the bathwater.
>
> Just to be cle
On 08/09/18 at 11:11 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Anyway, whilst I am in no way suggesting DebConf takes an identical
> approach (!!), I would be curious to know whether if we are missing any
> new contributions this way.
I fully agree that Q&A are very important at DebConf.
However, I wonder if we
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> I'm all for encouraging first-time speakers, but Q&A at the end of a
> session are valuable too; as such, to me, outlawing Q&A is a bit like
> throwing the kid out with the bathwater.
Just to be clear, I would agree with this and am not even strongly
advocating the weaker
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 04:40:38PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
>
> > > About embarrassing behaviour from the audience: First, this barely ever
> > > happens, [...]
> >
> > I completely agree this all of this, and that's what I explain to our
> > PhD students. But them actually believing
