[Scale-planning] SCALE 101 / helping new attendees

[Mx Siltanen]

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 at 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 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
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>>>
>>> "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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