>>2. I personally favor shorter sessions (ca. 4 hours) over more dates
Short sessions means more chance to line up wine-o'clock in Europe with
coffee-time in the US (16:00 CET = 10:00 NY time)
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 15:28, David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> It's pretty clear that next Spring's Amber Developers' Meeting with be a
> virtual one. I'm soliciting suggestions for how to make this as useful
> as possible, and volunteers for helping with the organization.
>
> 1. Are there dates that are especially good or bad?
>
> 2. I personally favor shorter sessions (ca. 4 hours) over more dates,
> as opposed to longer sessions on fewer dates, but am eager to hear what
> others think about this.
>
> 3. We may not want to have 30+ talks, given the limited attention
> span one gets on Zoom or similar platforms. I'm thinking that most
> people could upload slides in advance. We would ask everyone to preview
> those, and most of the actual meeting time could be devoted to questions
> and discussion.
>
> 4. Please think hard about how we can increase gender and other
> diversity in our development group. We should invite a few outside
> folks to give invited talks, and suggestions for that are welcome.
>
> 5. Any other thoughts? I think we can just have a general discussion
> on this mailing list. (Hit "delete" or create a spam filter if you
> don't want the clutter in your in-box.) I'll summarize the discussion
> later.
>
> ...thx....dac
>
>
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