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David Fawcett
Apr 25, 2013, 10:05:26 PM4/25/13
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The conference date is approaching fast! May 22 is a lot closer than it feels, maybe that is because there are still a few piles of snow in my backyard.
We still have decisions to make on lightning talks, panels, and filling in some presentation slots. Here are are my thoughts and recommendations.
1. Lightning Talks - To be fair to our speakers, we need to invite them as soon as possible. If we can do it by Tuesday, that only gives them 3 weeks.
We have 17 candidates in our spreadsheet [1] and we have set aside up to 1.5 hours for the talks. If we do 5 or 6 minute talks, we can realistically do a max of about 9 talks, but we don't have to use all of the time. You all have edit rights on that sheet, please add a column with your name and flag up to 9 talks that you think we should select.
David Bitner (or anyone else with rights to the registration db), please take a quick scan to see if there are any people registered that might be exciting or interesting speakers who we might want to invite to pitch a talk.
2. Panels - Right now, we have one panel on the schedule (Diversity). I created a 60-90 minute slot for a second panel, but at this point, that space isn't assigned. If we want another panel in there, we need someone to sponsor, invite, and arrange one. We can likely squeeze a panel into the last plenary if we want to do that, but we will need someone to sponsor it, pitch it to the committee, and then invite the panel and moderator.
3. We have a handful of slots open in the schedule. If we can hope to get people to fill them, I think that we need to make invites by Monday or Tuesday. I propose that I will look at the number of slots, the topics and presenters that we currently have, and propose a list of new presentations to invite. If anyone has great ideas or strong feelings about a presentation that should be added, please let me know asap.
Finally, aside from the actual program work, we really need to boost attendance. As you know, we actually have a great program to sell. We just need to help potential attendees to see it (and realistically in the next 5 days). Obviously the existing channels haven't produced a bumper crop, so go guerrilla!
David.
1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsCkQzPtVME8dE9hSjJrR1U3V0dDa2w2MjhSVlc3aEE&usp=sharing
We still have decisions to make on lightning talks, panels, and filling in some presentation slots. Here are are my thoughts and recommendations.
1. Lightning Talks - To be fair to our speakers, we need to invite them as soon as possible. If we can do it by Tuesday, that only gives them 3 weeks.
We have 17 candidates in our spreadsheet [1] and we have set aside up to 1.5 hours for the talks. If we do 5 or 6 minute talks, we can realistically do a max of about 9 talks, but we don't have to use all of the time. You all have edit rights on that sheet, please add a column with your name and flag up to 9 talks that you think we should select.
David Bitner (or anyone else with rights to the registration db), please take a quick scan to see if there are any people registered that might be exciting or interesting speakers who we might want to invite to pitch a talk.
2. Panels - Right now, we have one panel on the schedule (Diversity). I created a 60-90 minute slot for a second panel, but at this point, that space isn't assigned. If we want another panel in there, we need someone to sponsor, invite, and arrange one. We can likely squeeze a panel into the last plenary if we want to do that, but we will need someone to sponsor it, pitch it to the committee, and then invite the panel and moderator.
3. We have a handful of slots open in the schedule. If we can hope to get people to fill them, I think that we need to make invites by Monday or Tuesday. I propose that I will look at the number of slots, the topics and presenters that we currently have, and propose a list of new presentations to invite. If anyone has great ideas or strong feelings about a presentation that should be added, please let me know asap.
Finally, aside from the actual program work, we really need to boost attendance. As you know, we actually have a great program to sell. We just need to help potential attendees to see it (and realistically in the next 5 days). Obviously the existing channels haven't produced a bumper crop, so go guerrilla!
David.
1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsCkQzPtVME8dE9hSjJrR1U3V0dDa2w2MjhSVlc3aEE&usp=sharing
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