Re: Debian-Day talks [Re: Linuxtag in germany...]
Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:42:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
>> >Yes, I know what you mean. We could try to create those "How did you
>> >liked the talk?" questionaires to be spread and collected after before
>> >and after the talks. So speakers would get some more and better
>> >feedback than a "You are soooooo stupid" at an social event.
>> >
>> >Any comments? Any volunteers?
>> If I look at the list of speakers (with exception of the Debian-Women
>> talk where is nobody announced) I think it is the best way to talk to
>> them at dinner. They are all known to many of us and an open direct
>> word might work in this case better than a form with some default
>> questions.
>
> Well, I like the part about the questionniare. We want to have feedback
> from the people we do not deal with usually, and so far, I have not
> talked a lot about past talks over dinner IIRC. It might look a bit
> strange to outsiders, though, so we'd want to make it friendly like 'How
> can we improve Debian-Day? - Answer this small questionniare to give the
> speaker and the organizers some feedback'.
Noone is going to sit next to some stranger at dinner telling him all
night how awfull his/her talk was. You sit next to that other speaker
that did a good talk to congratulate him/her and ask more questions.
So dinner isn't a good way to get negative feedback.
MfG
Goswin
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