[OSDC Israel] Making sure speakers are good

[Steph Fox]

Hi Miki,

> > > 2) Will we exclude speakers from the next conference who get low 
> > > results?
> >
> > Unless you know they've improved in between, yes.
> I think this is not such a good path to choose:
> 1. You will loose most of the people who did their 1'st presentation (and
>  are bound to improve the next time)

I think that depends very much on the kind of questions you ask. You don't 
have to be a good speaker to have interesting content, for example. You 
don't have to have well-prepared slides to give a good presentation (though 
of course it helps). You could be a brilliant speaker but aim too low or too 
high for your audience (happens a lot) so they learn nothing. Or you might 
just be someone that nobody at the back can hear.

> 2. It's very hard (impossible?) to know if someone has improved.

Fair point - it's a very different situation here from the international 
circuit.

> I suggest that we won't exclude people, just publish the feedback forms
> results so people will know which lecture was good and which wasn't.

I'd be against publishing them, I think they should be used as feedback for 
speakers and for conference organisers rather than as some public grading 
system. But again, intended usage is something that needs to be 100% clear 
before anyone lifts a finger to do any of the work involved.

> IMO we should also need a minimum of feedback forms per speaker - In the
> extreme if I'll have one listener and he won't like the lecture I'll get
> a 0.

:) You'd work on percentages. That one listener might have something helpful 
to say to you, or might just want to tell you you were brilliant and the 
lack of attendees wasn't your fault!

- Steph






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miki Tebeka" <mtebeka at qualcomm.com>
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