[Inpycon] [PyCon India 2015] CFP status

[Jaidev Deshpande]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Anuvrat Parashar <anuvrat at anuvrat.in>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Kracekumar Ramaraju <me at kracekumar.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Past speaking experience shouldn't be only criteria, last year we had
>>> instances where proposer didn't submit the content till last week.
>>>
>> Are you saying that past speaking experience is considered, but that is
>> not  the only criteria?
>>>
>>> It should be based on the content, place holder for examples are
>>> acceptable. The broader point is to have the content appealable to reviewer
>>> and proposer can keep on refining the content.
>>>
>> I think you can ask for an outline, but asking for whole content before
>> accepting the proposal is probably too much. That'll give incentive for
>> people repeating a talk given elsewhere than people trying to propose a
>> completely new idea.
>>
>
Agreed. Very few people have actually posted the whole content, and many
have not, but it is clear that they know what they're talking about. So
let's relax the content criterion a little bit and let the reviewers use
their judgment to decide whether a talk is worthwhile.


> It is pure meritocracy and level playground.
>>>
>> How do you know if the person is a good speaker, has public speaking
>> skills? Someone can write a beautiful proposal, but fail miserably on
>> stage. Thats why it is important to look at past videos if available.
>>
>
> Very true. Writing and Speaking are two very different skill sets.
> IMO, theatrics should take precedence over subject matter.
>

Interesting.


>
> Would we rather have a great programmer but extremely boring speaker on
> the stage who puts everyone to sleep?
> OR
> An average programmer possessing the rare ability to effectively and
> interactively communicate with the audience?
>
> This year, lets not have even one person who gets up on the stage and "*reads
> off their slides*" as 6-th grader, bluntly ignoring their years of
> service to the community.
>

> Peace
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