Please don't do a DConf 2018, consider alternatives

[rikki cattermole]

On 04/10/2018 8:53 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> I went to a conference once where they had mixed live talks and 
> prerecorded talks - questions where taken at the end to the speaker of 
> the prerecorded talk via a sip call.
> 
> The organisers at the end admitted that the prerecorded talks experiment 
> failed. No one really paid attention to any of the content in it.

There are a lot of social cues that a speaker can take note of and use 
to determine the pace of the talk or what to put emphasis on. So that 
result doesn't really surprise me.