[opensolaris-summit] Advocacy Panel Discussion: An Idea for Discussion

[Jim Grisanzio]

Jesse Silver wrote:
> The whole event will be semi-professionally recorded on video.

That's cool, Jesse. Semi-professional is best.

Oh, and by the way, I don't know what the room format looks like, but 
here's what I'm thinking. Let me know if it's ok. No podium. I'll be 
walking around a lot and I'm uncomfortable with podiums anyway. And the 
panelists should be on stools or chairs or something but there shouldn't 
be a table in front of them. In other words, nothing separating me and 
the panelists from the audience. And I hope we are not on a stage or 
anything like that, but we'll deal if we are and you can't get around 
it. Keep us on ground floor if you can. :) The whole elevation bit for 
speakers is garbage.

If the room is small enough I guess we won't need mics, but if you are 
recording this I think you may for the sake of the digital audience. If 
so, then we'll need a bunch of mics so people can pass them around 
quickly. Too much time is spent running across the room to get a mic in 
someone hands in the middle of the row after they already start talking 
at these things. We'll need a few mic people spread out throughout the 
room so it's just a few seconds before someone has a mic. I want the 
conversation to feed off itself, and that requires speed. I guess we can 
easily get some mic volunteers before the session easily enough.

Cool with that?

That's pretty much it from me. Everything else will be just content 
flow, a few rules, and a pile of issues. I'll work on that next week 
along with finalizing a panel. And I like Simon's idea of getting the 
panel together beforehand to go over things.

Jim

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