[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Bibhas Ch Debnath]

On Oct 15, 2014 8:37 PM, "Anand Chitipothu" <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   [...]
>>
>> > I'm against first time or inexperienced *speakers*.
>>
>> I would say this is a wrong attitude to have. Experienced speakers don't
sprout on trees. It takes a long time for someone to get good at it.
>>
>> Also, having expert knowledge about a certain topic does not mean the
person would have presentation skills as well.
>>
>> Almost all the Pycons around the world welcome first time speakers,
including Pycon US.
>>
>> There should be an avenue for first timers to present and grow. At some
point in time, the old will have to make way for the new. :)
>
> New speaker are welcome, but not first time speakers. There are other
venues like user group meetings etc to practice speaking for first timers.

Maybe we should not restrict speakers depending on their experience. Maybe
instead we can have a strong talk selection committee who can go through
the talks of first time speakers and make sure that the presentation is of
high quality?

We can always ask people to participate and talk at the local user groups.
But we'll always have someone who will submit their talks as a first time
speaker. Maybe their presentation skills won't be at par. But if the topic
is interesting, we can help them get started? Restricting the total number
of talks might help here. We can give more assistance to the talks. The
percentage of first time speakers won't be too high. So if the topic is
interesting, maybe someone else from the community can help the speaker on
stage if they don't have good presentation skills. That might help both the
speaker and the conference, and the community to some extent as it might
encourage more new speakers to come up.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/inpycon/attachments/20141016/6c4b00b8/attachment.html>