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

Shamail itzshamail at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 17:25:24 UTC 2016


Hi,

> On Mar 25, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'll be glad to volunteer to help take the discussion and turn into bullet points or even update the project guide with the recommendations after the fact.

> 
> -- 
> 
> -- Ed Leafe
> 
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