[OSDC Israel] Making sure speakers are good

[Steph Fox]

> On 7/31/06, Steph Fox <steph at zend.com> wrote:
>> Feedback forms.  Usually. (After each presentation, on the way out.) 
>> Some
>> places bribe attendees with a raffle for filled-in forms.
>
> Feedback forms are great.
> We had them on the first YAPC.
> They are still in my room in a box. Unprocessed.

Heh, maybe we should go back to punching cards :)

> A couple of questions:
>
> 1) Will we advertise the results publicly or just tell the speakers in 
> private?

Tell them if private _if they want to know_.  Most will, some won't.

> 2) Will we exclude speakers from the next conference who get low results?

Unless you know they've improved in between, yes.

> 3) Who will put together the questions?

The questions are generic, obviously. This is a one-time task.

> 4) Will it be on-line or paper?

Paper if you want maximum on-the-spot response. If you do it online you 
won't get anything like the same amount of feedback. (Note: my only 
experience of this is in Europe, there may be cultural differences -- if so, 
feel free to ignore this observation.) Of course, you could offer both... 
but you'd need to have delegate ID numbers to make that even vaguely 
possible.

>    If paper, who will type them in?

Whichever way you do it, making most of the questions multiple choice and 
giving only one textarea for freehand comment makes it easier to collate 
this kind of stuff.

>    If on-line who will code it?

I'm sure most of us are capable of that :)  It just needs people to agree on 
what should be done and how.

>
> Gabor
> ps. I wrote this yesterday just waited in hope others will also comment
> before me.

Sorry :\

- Steph


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