[group-organizers] Watch PyCon videos?

[Ryan Freckleton]

We just did this at PySprings. We had an initial live presentation on
SQLAlchemy and then watched the "Good Enough Is Good Enough" presentation
afterwards.

It generated a lot of good discussion, we had a few new people that got
engaged, so I was really happy about that. At the end, people gave 5/5
points for the value of the meeting.

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--Ryan E. Freckleton


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Deb Nicholson
<deb at eximiousproductions.com>wrote:

> Maybe it would make the most sense to group the videos around a loose
> theme, like web programming or big data and then include a couple of
> relevant lightning talks?
>
> Comfy chairs and popcorn (maybe beer too) would also be a plus.
> Cheers,
> Deb
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Catherine Devlin
> <catherine.devlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We've done this a couple times at the Dayton Dynamic Languages meeting,
> > where it's perfect because it's a very small but chatty group.  A single
> > 30-min video takes us about two hours since we're constantly stopping the
> > video, saying, "Wait, what?", explaining things to one another, and
> trying
> > things out.  If you can get that dynamic going, it's much more valuable
> > than just watching videos alone.
> >
> > Good reminder, we should really do this more.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned at nedbatchelder.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I always have a problem post-PyCon, which is that I mean to watch videos
> >> of talks I didn't see, but then I don't watch them.  Has anyone tried
> >> running an event that consists just of watching PyCon videos together?
>  A
> >> poll beforehand could select the videos to screen, then put the video on
> >> the big screen, watch together, and have a q+a/discussion afterward.
> Does
> >> this work?  Is it weird to watch a talk on video in person?
> >>
> >> --Ned.
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