[Scale-planning] SCALE 101 / helping new attendees

[Christopher Smith]

I too tend not to watch long videos. I mostly prefer to just read. Everyone
is different though.

I was just going for hitting more modalities with minimalist effort. In
reality, before you arrive at a conference, you've at least somewhat locked
in your plans and your schedule. I figure a talk at the conference might be
too late for many newbies. So, a video of said talk that you check out well
before you attend would fit the bill. If someone wants to put together some
short length videos on the subject, I would definitely support that idea.

--Chris

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 1:43 AM, ldangmlist at gmail.com <ldangmlist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't have the time or attention span to watch videos that are more than
> a couple of minutes long.  Perhaps we can do quick video clips, which can
> become advertisements for next year.
>
> At my workplace, HR did a series of short videos on specific topics aimed
> at  new employees. That is a lot easier to digest than a long video that
> tries to cover everything.  It also helps that it had good production
> values.
>
> Lan
>
> Sent from my HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Christopher Smith" <cbsmith at gmail.com>
> To: "SCALE Planning List" <scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org>
> Subject: [Scale-planning] SCALE 101 / helping new attendees
> Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 1:31 AM
>
> I say we email out the video of the talk to at least new attendees.
>
> On Mar 10, 2017 12:51 AM, "Phil Dibowitz" <phil at ipom.com> wrote:
>
>> On 03/09/2017 09:37 PM, Lei Zhang wrote:
>> > In another thread, Chris Smith said "A recurring theme I observed this
>> > year with people new to SCALE was that they weren't as aware of
>> > SCALE's offerings as one might hope."
>> >
>> > Should we make a "new to SCALE" guide on the website and link to it in
>> > the registration emails?
>> >
>> > Should we take 1-2 pages near the front of the printed program and put
>> > the "new to SCALE" guide there?
>> >
>> > Did anyone go to the SCALE 101 talk? [1] Was it useful? Should we have
>> > held it on Friday, instead or ran a second session on Friday?
>>
>>
>> Gonna answer these in reverse.
>>
>> The SCALE 101 talk, like last year, was not well attended (about 15
>> people,
>> including those that filtered in late), but the panel / Q&A portion was
>> incredibly interactive, nearly everyone asked questions or commented, and
>> nearly all of them either stayed late to thank me or found me later to do
>> so.
>>
>> Ilan had a suggestion that we do this between the keynote and the first
>> session, in the keynote room. It's a good suggestion, but we'd probably
>> have
>> to move the keynote slightly earlier to account for the panel, which I
>> think
>> is the magic of it all (since I think the breaks are only half hour).
>>
>> This would I think be more useful than stuff in the program which people
>> don't
>> read as it is.
>>
>> --
>> Phil Dibowitz                             phil at ipom.com
>> Open Source software and tech docs        Insanity Palace of Metallica
>> http://www.phildev.net/                   http://www.ipom.com/
>>
>> "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter
>>  and those who matter don't mind."
>>  - Dr. Seuss
>>
> --
Chris
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