Session Chair Volunteers

[Shawn Milochik]

First, I encourage people to volunteer. It's easy and fun.

Secondly, there are two very important things you should do that aren't
enumerated in the official role requirements.

1. Talk to your speaker beforehand. Get any information from them that
they'd like announced. Specifically any open-source projects they've
created/contributed to, their company, and anything else relevant to
help the audience understand why they should be excited to hear this
person speak. Last year most session chairs did not do this. They just
announced "And here's Bob Smith with his talk on X."

2. Ask the first question. This tip is courtesy of Russell Keith-Magee.
Pay attention during the talk and think of at least one question. If Q&A
time begins and you don't see anyone walking up to the microphone, go up
immediately and ask it. This gives others time to think of questions,
breaks the ice in case nobody wants to go first, and keeps the speaker
comfortable because they're not staring at a silent room wondering if
anything they said was received.

[Remco Wendt]

On dinsdag 23 augustus 2011 at 00:28, Shawn Milochik wrote:

1. Talk to your speaker beforehand. Get any information from them that
they'd like announced. Specifically any open-source projects they've
created/contributed to, their company, and anything else relevant to
help the audience understand why they should be excited to hear this
person speak. Last year most session chairs did not do this. They just
announced "And here's Bob Smith with his talk on X."

You do have to mind though that you don't 'rob'  your speaker of things he wants to tell himself. The fact that the speaker is on stage already proves to the audience that he/she is interesting enough to be there.

Remco

[Justin Holmes]

How does one apply?

--
Justin Holmes

Head Instructor, SlashRoot Collective
SlashRoot: Coffee House and Tech Dojo
60 Main Street
New Paltz, NY 12561
845.633.8330

[Shawn Milochik]

On 08/22/2011 06:38 PM, Justin Holmes wrote:
> How does one apply?
>

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqmq8yZ2igGNdGFuZ3ExRENxbEQtclBrSjhXeE80Unc&hl=en_US

From Sean's e-mail from earlier today with 'Volunteers' in the subject
line.