[openstack-tc] Design Summit video advice for session moderators

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Mar 25 15:16:28 UTC 2016


> On Mar 25, 2016, at 9:29 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 25/03/16 11:48 +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Hi TC members,
>> 
>> We have less than one month before the Austin Summit. With the advent of the big tent, we'll have a lot of new teams and design summit session moderators there. Those could benefit from best practices and advice from experienced moderators.
>> 
>> The Foundation staff suggested that we hold a video hangout / webinar to distill short pieces of advice, and then send links to that video to PTLs and other design summit session moderators.
>> 
>> We could do it as a free-form discussion across a limited set of people, all recorded (using Google Hangouts on Air like for the Bootstrapping Hour). However I fear that would result in a long video that could be missing critical points.
>> 
>> Alternatively we could think about it and lay out the points we want to make on an Etherpad, and then have people sign up to pick one they are comfortable with and speak about it for one minute. We can still use a collective session on hangouts as a way to collect and build the common video, but we would build the script in advance.
> 
> 
> Collecting points on an etherpad or a hangout session sounds good to me! I think
> having an organized format (even if somewhat informal) is better than a
> free-form discussion. A free-form discussion is likely to miss important info,
> as you also pointed out.

Yes, a video is a good idea but we should probably add a section to the project team guide with this sort of info.

> 
>> What would be your preference ? Who on the TC would be interested to participate ? We can certainly include folks beyond the TC as well (we had volunteers at the last meeting and I CCed them here). Would be good to have some gender/geographic diversity on the resulting vid.
>> 
> 
> I'm happy to help and participate. If we can pull this out next week, that would
> be perfect for me. I won't have good bandwidth in the weeks prior to the summit
> and I don't want that to affect the session.

I’ll be available next week, too.

> 
> Flavio
> 
>> That will likely need to happen in the coming 2/3 weeks.
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> --
>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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