another idea for next flock

[Matthew Miller]

I think it's nice to close the last day with an everyone-there joint
session. It could be the last keynote, but everyone is tired by then.
This could be the Council panel, but I'm not sure that would be the
best as the last. How about we do lightning talks then? These could be
mostly pre-planned submitted short talks, with a few slots left open
for on-the-fly inspiration.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Remy DeCausemaker]

+1

I like the idea of one last "come together" big talk or session to put a
bow on the conference. Lightning talks are usually a big hit, but maybe a
farewell from FPL, council, or other Fedora Leadership members/conference
organizers would be a good way to end things.

--RemyD.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:

>  I think it's nice to close the last day with an everyone-there
> joint
>  session. It could be the last keynote, but everyone is tired by then.
>  This could be the Council panel, but I'm not sure that would be the
>  best as the last. How about we do lightning talks then? These could be
>  mostly pre-planned submitted short talks, with a few slots left open
>  for on-the-fly inspiration.
>
>  --
>  Matthew Miller
>  <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Fedora Project Leader
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-- 
Remy DeCausemaker
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[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:05:21PM -0400, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
>  I like the idea of one last "come together" big talk or
> session to put a
>  bow on the conference. Lightning talks are usually a big hit, but maybe a
>  farewell from FPL, council, or other Fedora Leadership members/conference
>  organizers would be a good way to end things. 
I particularly like lightning talks for this because it gives people a
choice: a more-in-depth session for an audience that chooses to go to
that talk over something else, or an overview for the whole Fedora
audience (who might benefit from hearing about it even if they don't
know it enough to seek it out).


-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Josh Boyer]

On Aug 19, 2015 4:02 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:
>  I think it's nice to close the last day with an everyone-there joint
>  session. It could be the last keynote, but everyone is tired by then. 
Do you literally mean the last day, or the last talk day?

In the past, the last day has been hack sessions and the typical feedback
we get is "let us hack."  Also, people are starting to leave for flights
and such throughout the day.  Trying to gather everyone for one last big
hurrah might be difficult logistically.

josh

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:16:24PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  > I think it's nice to close the last day with an
> everyone-there joint
>  > session. It could be the last keynote, but everyone is tired by then.
>  Do you literally mean the last day, or the last talk day? 
Good question. Last talk day. :)


-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 20 August 2015 at 04:32, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  I think it's nice to close the last day with an everyone-there
> joint
>  session. It could be the last keynote, but everyone is tired by then.
>  This could be the Council panel, but I'm not sure that would be the
>  best as the last. How about we do lightning talks then? These could be
>  mostly pre-planned submitted short talks, with a few slots left open
>  for on-the-fly inspiration. 
We did this in FUDCon Pune this year.  We had a few dedicated tracks
for various technologies running in parallel and on the last day we
had a "learnings" slot where a participant from each of those tracks
came up and talked for 10-15 minutes giving a summary of their track
and future action plan, if any.  We followed it up with a closing
thank you note where we recognized all of the volunteers who helped
make the FUDCon possible.

The closing thank you note is something that I haven't seen in a lot
of conferences outside India, although admittedly I haven't been to
many.  They set a very personal note to the conference, which IMO is
especially apt for community driven conferences like Flock and FUDCon.

Siddhesh
-- 
http://siddhesh.in

[Neville A. Cross]

 On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 19:24 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 07:16:24PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  > > I think it's nice to close the last day with an everyone-there 
>  > > joint
>  > > session. It could be the last keynote, but everyone is tired by 
>  > > then.
>  > Do you literally mean the last day, or the last talk day?
>  
>  Good question. Last talk day. :)
>  
>   
At FUDCon Managua 2014, we did last day of talks a closure speak. But
it was part of what the university expected and part be able to provide
feed back to the fedora project at large.
It was something like what we accomplished, what we have learned and a
lot (really a lot) of thanking people that made the event possible. It
turn out really well. I feel that people got a message that formal
"status" was over. Go to FUDPub and have fun, tomorrow hack more if you
want or go to do some sightseeing.

I made my task keep track of things and do informal survey, so I was
able to provide the talk. 

This is just an example of something that worked well in a particular
context. I am not implying this will work well for other contexts, but
it is possible to think about what may be useful from this experience.

Best regards

Neville