What will the format of the conference be like?
Martin Fenner
Friday, 25 April 2008 18:02 UTC
Now that we have settled on location, time and name for the conference, we can start thinking about the format of the conference. I am very interested in the Barcamp/Unconference format, but I have no experience with it. What are the lessons learned from other similar conferences, e.g. the North Carolina Science Bloging Conference or SciBarCamp?
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I agree with Corie. As excited as I am by the prospect of a science blogging conference near enough for me to get on a train for, I want to know a lot more about the format, structure and content of the day before I commit to coming. (and I know much of this will be forthcoming once rooms are looked at etc.)
I love Martin’s poster session suggestion with comment space.
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On the suggestion of a poster session, I went to the American Chemical Society conference and they held a virtual poster session in Second Life immediately after the real world poster session.
20 posters were picked, they were uploaded to SL and their owners given avatars to stand next to the posters and chat to visitors.
The idea was for all chemists who couldn’t attend to get a chance to see posters and talk to the presenters live and for poster-owners to get a chance to see what all the SL fuss was about.
Not sure if it would work in this context but there do seem to be quite a few people who want to make it and can’t, so could maybe give it a try?
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We are definitely looking into running something on Second Life concurrently with the conference and/or after it. Are there any volunteers who want to help us run this? Email us if you’re interested: network@nature.com
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Thanks everyone for your feedback about the format of the conference. We’ve talked it over and Matt got feedback from the folks at the Royal Institution as well, and we’ve decided to make the format a hybrid one. Most of the sessions and speakers will be set ahead of time, based on ideas suggested by you all in this forum, but we will leave a few of the rooms and time slots open for sessions that are self-organized the morning of August 30.
With that, we are now soliciting ideas for talks/sessions/workshops! Please post your ideas under Sessions Wanted and Sessions offered
About a poster session: it’s not clear yet whether we’ll have the right facilities at the RI to hold a proper poster session. But we still want to give you the opportunity to showcase your work/ideas in a non-session, non-talk format, such as a demo or very short presentation. So please post those ideas here.
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I helped set up the ACS meeting and would be happy to help with this one. Corie/Joanna – lets meet on Second Nature to discuss.
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