Peter van Summeren writes ("The Guardian about Debian"):
> I read today in the Guardian
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2018/aug/16/
> i-want-to-boycott-us-pc-hardware-software-services#img-1
>
> "While GNU/Linux is mostly American, at least the kernel was started by Linus
> Torva
Chris Lamb writes ("Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)"):
> I noticed yesterday [0] that the PyCascades conference [1] explicitly
> does not permit any questions and answers after a presentation.
This is interesting.
As an audience member I have sometimes found myself intensely
irritated wh
Samuel Thibault writes ("Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)"):
> Matthew Vernon, le sam. 08 sept. 2018 15:41:14 +0100, a ecrit:
> > Moderators happy/able to cut people off who aren't really
> > asking a question seems a better solution than banning all questions.
>
> But the speaker can n
Vincent Bernat writes ("Re: Questions after talks at DebConf (idea)"):
> I don't speak in front of large audiences because of the Q&A part.
That is a shame. Thank you very much for sharing.
> I don't suggest to change anything for Debconf, I am just bad at
> conferencing.
I think you would prob
❦ 12 septembre 2018 13:13 +0100, Ian Jackson :
>> I don't suggest to change anything for Debconf, I am just bad at
>> conferencing.
>
> I think you would probably have interesting things to say. I would
> like it if you felt able to give a talk, so I am keen that we remove
> the barriers that ar
Hi,
I was reading 35c3 CfP [1] and I saw this:
"Talks should be either 30 minutes long plus 10 minutes for questions and
answers or 45 minutes long plus 15 minutes for questions and answers."
QA been mandatory, is it a problem?
[1]
https://events.ccc.de/2018/09/11/35c3-call-for-participation-
>"Talks should be either 30 minutes long plus 10 minutes for questions
>and answers or 45 minutes long plus 15 minutes for questions and
>answers."
>
>QA been mandatory, is it a problem?
I would say very normal and standard procedure. Has been like this in most
conferences I have attended.
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