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

Ed Leafe ed at leafe.com
Fri Mar 25 15:53:20 UTC 2016


On 03/25/2016 08:29 AM, Flavio Percoco wrote:

>> 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, an organized format will probably be much better. A discussion
format will likely end up with points being made with assumed tribal
knowledge, and that's exactly the thing we *don't* want. We want to pass
on that tribal knowledge explicitly.

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-- Ed Leafe

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