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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/13/2014 05:41 PM, Shrayas
rajagopal wrote:<br>
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ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Hey all, </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">I've always felt
that the Q&A session after each talk is really a time of
chaos: for the speaker to find the person asking the question,
for the person to wait for the mic and for the person moving
the mic from one place to another. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">So how about we
try this this year: Let us keep 2 standing mics in the
auditoriums, somewhere equidistant and ask the participants
who have questions to line up and wait for their turn.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">I've seen this
work in a fair share of places - The google talks and I think
debconf 2014 where there was a Q&A session with Linus took
this approach. I'm sure other conferences do it too. <br>
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This will work when you have a bunch of audience who are bound to
have questions. For your example, when you're doing a Q&A
session with Linus, more and more people are bound to have questions
and because it's Linus, they have the motivation to get up from
their seat and come to the mic to ask them.<br>
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In our case, most participants are new to PyCon and even attending
any conferences. Most of them are too afraid to even ask questions.
Well, at least I was the first time I attended PyCon. I don't think
this will help a lot in solving that problem for regular sessions.
This could be done for the keynotes though. And even panel
discussions.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
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following ways: </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
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run around to handover mics</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">2. No one has to
wait for the mic when it is clearly their turn to ask a
question</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">3. The speaker
knows exactly where to concentrate. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">4. Since it will
be on a first come first serve basis, it will be easy for the
speaker to moderate the questions</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">In terms of
equipment, we'll just need 2 stands for the mics in every
auditorium. I assume we already have the mics for this. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet
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think?</div>
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