On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 04:51:33PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Sure, but that does not *have* to be done during the session, with > the whole audience listening to the discussion, which I guess is the > precise stressing point.
http://ericholscher.com/blog/2016/nov/12/questions-at-conferences/ has more good suggestions: --quote begin-- Speaker goes to the front of stage for questions At my own conferences, Write the Docs, we have established the norm of not having full audience questions. After each talk we ask the speaker to come to the front of the stage, and then have a conversation with members of the audience with questions. This achieves a couple beneficial results: People are empowered to ask questions that are more specific to their situation, instead of trying to general them for a larger audience The question asker isn’t given a “stage” to promote their own projects or ideas The speaker isn’t worried about being “called out” in front of the full room Everyone else in the audience is free to do whatever they want [...] Questions are your responsibility As the organizer of an event, the way that you structure the event has a direct impact on people’s experience. Opening the room to questions and not doing any moderation is abdicating your responsibility as an organizer. --quote end-- So yes, good room moderation is pretty important, and giving speakers the explicit note that they dont have to accept questions seems nice indeed. -- cheers, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C
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