[Chennaipy] Talks for the Next Meet

[James Mortensen]

Hi Shrayas,

Yes, I think it could be more clear that 20 minutes is the timebox, and
that presentations don't have to be 20 minutes long.  I assumed wrong, so
others may have as well.

Even though this is an easy going group, some of the most introverted folks
can still be a little intimidated.  I encourage people to practice on their
own or with a small group of friends in their own office perhaps.  I admit
my original suggestion is quite idealistic.

As for group presentations, I'm excited to see what people come up with!


James


On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Shrayas rajagopal <shrayasr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:20 AM, James Mortensen
> <james.mortensen at synclio.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Making the lightning talks 20 minutes instead of 10 might make the idea
> of
> > giving a talk scarier to some people, so maybe we can have some
> flexibility
> > there for first time speakers.
>
> Maybe we should make the messaging clear. A better model would be to
> have talks that can be all the way from 5 minutes to 20 minutes? I
> don't think we decided anywhere that talks *should* be 20 minutes
> long?
>
> > Also, I think another idea that could help is if we could get a group to
> > help people prepare for their speeches.  In my public speaking class in
> > college, the instructor suggested we practice in the same place where
> we'd
> > be giving the speech, so maybe IMSc would let a group come in on the 3rd
> > Saturday to practice in front of a small group of people.
>
> This sounds like an idealistic thing to do but the availability of
> people and the venue would become very big variables in the execution
> of such a plan. For example: I would really love to help people with
> their presentations and patter but I work on 3rd Saturdays so it would
> not be possible for me to make it in spite of the fact that I'd want
> to help.
>
> Maybe another way to think of this would be to use talks at user
> groups like Chennaipy as practice for higher level conferences like
> the PyCons. We're a closely knit set of people with a lot of us being
> recurring members now. Many of us want to help each other and I don't
> think there will be too much of judgement imposed on first time
> speakers (if any at all).
>
> > Another idea is to do group presentations.  We have people who I suspect
> > would be more comfortable if they were up on stage with another person
> and
> > not just themselves.
>
> This I like and something that I will +1 for. I don't know why this
> hasn't come up yet. Group presentations make sense now that we can
> have talks for 20 minutes.
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