Thanks to all the speakers for making this such a fun session!
A total of 178 people participated at some point, with a simultaneous peak of 145 participants. The average was around 120-30?
@tniet has already volunteered to host the next session in 3 weeks: 2nd Online Lightning Talk Mini-workshop
Feedback we collected from the audience (please edit since I didn’t catch everything - this post is wiki-editable):
- Consensus was that 6 minutes was about right for the talk length
- Consensus was that 4 minutes was about right for the time for questions
- I suggested having a fixed time of 6 minutes for the talk, and a flexible amount of time for the questions depending on how many questions there are (with a ceiling of 8 minutes?) - I can’t remember what the consensus here was
- Consensus was that 13 talks was about the right number (but I feel it was a touch too many - 10 would have been about right - as host I was quite tired by the end)
- Consensus was to do the next session in 3 weeks
- On the question of whether a themed/curated selection of talks was better than the random first-come-first-served selection I think people were split? I didn’t record this properly, sorry…
Things I learned as a host:
- Moderate the speaker in and confirm that slides and sound are working before handing over to them
- Thank the speaker at the end to give them a firm finish before handing to moderator for questions
- The whole fussing about uploading slides, recordings and licencing of slides and recordings is quite a burden on the organiser - I would consider asking the speakers to host screencasts and slides themselves and link to them from the forum - this reduces the burden on the organiser and the speakers can do a perfect version of the talk and even make it longer and more detailed
- I thought there wouldn’t be that must interest so directly emailed people asking them to speak - if you do this, do it sparingly because you might end up with too many talks
