[Debconf6-data-commit] r102 - website/www/about/talks

[Alexander Schmehl]

Author: tolimar-guest
Date: 2005-12-02 12:14:13 +0000 (Fri, 02 Dec 2005)
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+<h1>Presentation Types</h1>
+
+<p>There are different types of presentations you as a speaker are free to choose
+from.  In order to prevent misunderstandings, here are some definitions of the different types.</p>
+
+<p>If you are unsure what presentation type would suite your proposal best,
+feel free to contact us by <a
+href="mailto:debconf6-team at lists.debconf.org">e-mail</a> or on irc (channel:
+#debconf-team, server: irc.debian.org).  We'll try to answer your question as
+soon as possible.</p>
+
+
+<a name="talk" />
+<h2>Talk</h2>
+
+<p>A talk is very much like a lecture.  One or more speakers address the
+audience, using slides or similar things to illustrate their most important points.
+Although you should allow the audience to ask questions after your talk, there
+isn't that much interactivity in such a session:  The main task of the speaker
+is to speak, the main task of the audience is to listen.</p>
+
+<p>We reserve a time slot of 45 minutes for such a session.  This includes
+questions from the audience, so you shouldn't talk much more than 35 minutes,
+saving 10 minutes for questions.</p> 
+
+
+<a name="workshop" />
+<h2>Workshop</h2>
+
+<p>A workshop is a longer session.  It takes 90 minutes (preferably with a
+break in between).  This allows you to cover your topic more extensively than in a regular talk, and also puts some interactivity in your session:  Let the audience try
+out things themselves, show them more detailed examples, etc.  Or to be short:
+In a workshop you are allowed to do everything to prevent your audience from
+falling asleep ;)</p>
+
+
+<a name="roundtable" />
+<h2>Round table</h2>
+
+<p>A round table is some kind of panel discussion.  You don't need to talk the whole 
+90 minutes yourself.  Instead you moderate a discussion about your topic
+with guests you invited.  If you like, you may accept questions from the
+audience too, but the main discussion should be between the panel's guests.</p>
+
+<p>Note that even if you are &quot;just the moderator&quot;, you still need to
+be well prepared about the topic.  And please note also, that you will need to
+invite the guests for your round table yourself, DebConf can't do that for you.
+But you may ask us for advise on interesting and appropriate guests.</p>
+
+
+<a name="bof" />
+<h2>BoF</h2>
+
+<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoF">BoF</a> is short for &quot;birds
+of a feather flock together&quot;, and doesn't mean any more than people who share 
+interest in a certain topic getting together in a room and doing something ;) (usually talk or code)</p>
+
+<p>We don't have a definite schedule for BoFs, but we think that it might be a
+good idea to spend about 10 minutes with a small introduction to the topic, a
+specific problem or an outline of what you would like to achieve, and use the
+rest of the time to work on a solution to that, together with the audience or better with the
+attendees. A BoF could be described as a short workshop without a fixed
+schedule.  But as said:  We don't have a strict definition about what a BoF
+really is...</p>
+
+
+<a name="adhoc" />
+<h2>AdHoc session</h2>
+
+<p>AdHoc sessions are spontaneous sessions ... talks, workshops, get-togethers,
+whatever you like.  As they are spontaneous, you don't need to register them
+here and now ;)  We just added them to this list, to point out, that there will
+be room for AdHoc sessions if you find the need for one.</p>
+
+<p>We'll give information on how to reserve a room and announce an adhoc
+session later.</p>