Re: [guadec-list] Proposal of lightning talks for silver sponsors

["Karen Sandler" <karen gnome org>]

On Mon, July 16, 2012 4:48 am, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012, à 17:35 +0200, Xabier Rodriguez Calvar a
> écrit :
>> 	Hi folks:
>>
>> After filtering the regular LTs by moving the program ones (GSoC and
>> OPW) to another session, we have 5 free slots. Considering that we have
>> four silver sponsors, I think it would be a good idea contacting with
>> those sponsons so that they could give also a LT about their company and
>> about their commitment with GNOME.

fwiw, we do have 5 silver sponsors :)

>> The idea would be cutting the current session to 60 minutes and leaving
>> the other for the new 30 minutes session with the sponsors.
>>
>> Anybody against it?
>
> To be honest, I fear that this will be 30 minutes where people just
> leave the room because they feel it will be boring (and they might be
> right, based on past experience).
>
> I would prefer if we find some last-minute lightning talk during the
> event itself.
>
> What do others think?

I like the idea of giving sponsors a chance to talk, but I agree that it
doesn't necessarily make for the most successful sessions. It's always fun
to say that we reserved some time slots for proposals at the conference. I
don't know how easy it would be to do this, but we could have voting live
at the conference before then so that people could pick what they want to
hear. This would all have to happen the first day though, since lightning
talks are on the second day. If we wanted to, we could announce in the
days before and allow people to submit lightning talks at registration,
then announce it in the opening proceedings, with a cut off at the end of
the day for voting. Maybe timing would be too tight to even think about
it?

karen