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diff --git a/2022/organizers-notebook.org b/2022/organizers-notebook.org index ee424aff..3ece421b 100644 --- a/2022/organizers-notebook.org +++ b/2022/organizers-notebook.org @@ -107,28 +107,30 @@ DEADLINE: <2022-09-30 Fri> :PROPERTIES: :CUSTOM_ID: decisions :END: -** Can we nudge people to ask IRC questions in a way that will make it easier for us to follow them? - +** What ideas do we want to borrow from other conferences? + +- FOSDEM had a conference track + - https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/conference_organisation/ +- DebConf + - Thorough documentation at https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/docs/ + - https://debconf-video-team.pages.debian.net/docs/online_volunteer_roles.html + - SReview for cutting videos? + - https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebConf/Video/Subtitles + - Pentabarf https://lists.debian.org/debconf-team/2008/08/msg00147.html + +- LibrePlanet https://libreplanet.org/2022/ + - libreadventure, minetest? +** Do we want to make the ikiwiki web-editable? Pain points: +- Speakers usually ended up going through us -- Q&A/discussions often overlap with the next talks -- Sometimes questions don't get copied to the pad -- Fast discussions can get overwhelming - -Ideas: +Options: +- Web-editable: + - Speakers and general public will be able to edit it more easily +- Git: (current) + - Haven't had a problem with spam + - Reduces merge conflict potential -- Announce pad link at the beginning of the talk and at the start of - live Q&A, encourage most people to ask questions there -- Encourage people to start questions with Q: - - A little extra work, but not as much as including the slug - - Easier to pick out when people search - - Volunteers can restate questions easily if people forget the Q: -- Encourage people to start questions with Q-slug: (ex: Q-news: question about Emacs News Highlights, Q-journalism: ...) - - Easier to pick out questions even with overlapping Q&A/talks -- Use two or three IRC channels so that talks can rotate among channels - - Easier to pick out questions even with overlapping Q&A/talks - - Needs logging and more organizer attention -- Maybe a volunteer can have an ERC command that copies a question into a buffer, or even into the Etherpad ** How do we want to make better use of Etherpad? Pain points: - Lots of scrolling for speakers @@ -148,6 +150,54 @@ Pain points: - Worked fine last year - Host our own - Might be able to use API to append questions to it, if we want to get super fancy +*** Do we want to embed the pad as an iframe on the watch page? on talk pages? +This guides people to use the pad for discussion/questions instead of IRC + +Options: + +- Current: None, just a link +- Big pad on the watch page: +- Individual pads: + - Watch page needs to be updated with current pad and link to previous pad + - Individual talk page can embed the iframe +- Embed the IRC channel instead + +** Shall we put a generic e-mail address for sending feedback, maybe with different mailtos? +Pain points: +- Many talk pages don't have public e-mail addresses, so it takes a + little extra work (or is sometimes impossible) for people to follow + up if they have questions + +Options: +- Do nothing (current) +- Add a mailto link to emacsconf-discuss that prepopulates the subject +- Add a mailto link to emacsconf-org + - Wider discussion +- Add a mailto to emacsconf-org-private + - Private feedback that can be forwarded to the speaker + +** Can we nudge people to ask IRC questions in a way that will make it easier for us to follow them? + +Pain points: + +- Q&A/discussions often overlap with the next talks +- Sometimes questions don't get copied to the pad +- Fast discussions can get overwhelming + +Ideas: + +- Announce pad link at the beginning of the talk and at the start of + live Q&A, encourage most people to ask questions there +- Encourage people to start questions with Q: + - A little extra work, but not as much as including the slug + - Easier to pick out when people search + - Volunteers can restate questions easily if people forget the Q: +- Encourage people to start questions with Q-slug: (ex: Q-news: question about Emacs News Highlights, Q-journalism: ...) + - Easier to pick out questions even with overlapping Q&A/talks +- Use two or three IRC channels so that talks can rotate among channels + - Easier to pick out questions even with overlapping Q&A/talks + - Needs logging and more organizer attention +- Maybe a volunteer can have an ERC command that copies a question into a buffer, or even into the Etherpad ** How many BBB rooms do we want to set up? - One per talk |