[Chat] Collecting general feedback about the conference?

[Kathy Reid]

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On 25/01/17 15:56, Tim Serong via Chat wrote:
> On 01/24/2017 09:24 PM, Jan Groth via Chat wrote:
>> First of all: I had a great time in Hobart and would very much like to
>> thank everyone who participated and contributed to the conference!
>>
>> After Geelong 2016 this was my second Linuxconf, and it's probably
>> only natural to compare the two events:
>>
>> While 2017 certainly was a good conference, I must say that I found
>> 2016 far more relevant for me. That is more talks about topics that I
>> consider interesting and relevant, and fewer talks about topics that I
>> didn't manage to connect to.
>>
>> I'm sure that others have a different perception - which is perfectly
>> fine - but I was wondering if there are channels to collect this kind
>> of feedback (ideally in a more systematic and fine-grained way)?
> There's nothing official along those lines for LCA 2017.  Some F/OSS
> conferences have wound up with ad-hoc speaker feedback on third party
> sites (lanyrd maybe?) but I'm not sure if that's happened for LCAs or
> not offhand.
>
> From some previous discussions I've had there's at least a few ways
> speaker feedback could potentially be facilitated in future:
>
> - Build a rating thingy into the conference web site, so delegates can
> rate talks (delegates have to remember to rate talks).
> - Same as above, but with a mobile app.
> - Hand out bits of paper at each talk to collect feedback (either "tick
> the boxes", or a simpler "dump red/amber/green pieces of paper in a
> bucket as a hand-wavey quality metric")
>
> The paper based options probably get more feedback from more people than
> the online ones, but are more load on volunteers.
>
>> Taking that idea one step further: For future conferences, would it be
>> worthwhile to collect feedback on a talk / presenter level?
>>
>> * I've seen a few outstanding presentations and certainly wouldn't
>> mind letting the speaker know about it.
>>
>> * I also went to talks where someone presented massive walls of text
>> and simply read out slide after slide after slide in a very monotonous
>> voice. The guy next to me even fell asleep, I'm not making this up.
>>
>> * Sometimes only very small things went wrong, e.g. the presenter
>> typing into the bottom line of a console - which only the people in
>> the front row could see, but everyone else being too polite to mention
>> / yell out.
>>
>> If I was a speaker I would be very happy to receive this kind of
>> feedback and try to improve for the next time.
> Likewise.  I really appreciate feedback when I've been a speaker,
> because it helps me in my attempts to improve my presentations.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim
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