Caryl, that is a cute infographic. If we can come up with the content you want to express, I can see if I can sweet-talk one of my LUG members into doing the art; she is good with that style and we have enough lead time that I might be able to fit it in her queue. Though the high school students I mentor are also great at drawing cute cartoons, so that's another avenue.

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----- Reply message ----- From: "Caryl Bigenho" cbigenho@hotmail.com To: "SCALE Planning List" scale-planning@lists.linuxfests.org Subject: [Scale-planning] SCALE 101 / helping new attendees Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 2:35 PM

Hi...

I just came across this cute graphic on the CUE Los Angeles FB page. It is to help first-timers get the most out of next week's National CUE Conference in Palm Springs. Something similar could be made up and put in the program. Here is a link to the graphic: https://www.facebook.com/cue.losangeles/photos/rpp.164746903599002/139780542...

Caryl

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I really like the short video idea, we definitely can use a few to help give people an idea of what SCALE is all about.

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Christopher Smith cbsmith@gmail.com wrote:

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@gmail.com ldangmlist@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

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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@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.

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