[Inpycon] Lightning Talks @ Pycon India

[Arvi Krishnaswamy]

+1 I'm for keeping lightning talks completely open and without any approval
process.

Arvi

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Sreekanth S Rameshaiah <sree at mahiti.org>
wrote:

>
> On 9 September 2014 13:45, Rejy M Cyriac <rcyriac at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> > US PyCon 2014 has some good sections on Open Spaces[1]. We could borrow
>> > some ideas from here.
>> >
>> > As for lighting talks, it looks like they went through an approval
>> > process as well. I found a section[2] of "accepted lighting talks" on
>> > their site.
>> >
>> > [1]: https://us.pycon.org/2014/community/openspaces/
>> > [2]: https://us.pycon.org/2014/schedule/lightning-talks/list/
>> >
>>
>> Having an approval process is good to ensure that the topics are
>> relevant for the conference. But the approval process would have to be
>> lightning quick, for the attendees to get enough time to vote on the
>> approved list. So the approvers have to be selected ahead, and be ready
>> to review as the proposals come i
>>
>
> Would prefer keeping it open and let it become a platform for budding
> speakers to talk to crowd. At max people will end up tolerating someone for
> 5 minutes.
> - sree
>
>
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