[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
I think thats a good idea. In fact, that is what done this year. The talk
selection team has spent time looking at the slides of the speakers,
providing guidelines etc.

Anand
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