Defining the format

[gilligan]

My rough idea of the event would be :

Speakers present via google hangout or twitch.tv or something similar (see #1) and "visitors" hang out on gitter chat to ask questions. In addition to the speakers there would be a "facilitator" that presents questions raised on irc to presenters.

Any suggestions on this ?

[jethrolarson]

If conf is over twitch then using that chat is natural.

[CrossEye]

I haven't used twitch at all. I'm going to have to go investigate....

[buzzdecafe]

looks like twitch is flash-based? if so that's a 👎 for me

[jethrolarson]

I thought it worked on mobile...

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[buzzdecafe]

maybe so -- all i saw when i arrived there was a solicitations to install flash

[gilligan]

So what has come up in the gitter chat is something like hosted viewings:

The plan is to dedicate a conference room to RamdaConf at the Plaid office in San Francisco, so other members of the Ramda community in the Bay Area are welcome to watch the talks with me and other members of the Plaid team. This'll give the event a bit more of a conference feel.

I would probably do the same in our office in Munich then. Others could follow suit ;)

Furthermore @davidchambers suggested:

I suggest we keep this modest. Four or five speakers as @jethrolarson suggested sounds like the sweet spot to me. If each presentation is 30 minutes, say, plus 10 minutes at the end for additional questions and 5 minutes for resolving the inevitable technical issues, we're looking at 3–4 hours. This is a good length of time, I think. Enough content to make it feel like an occasion, without making it infeasible to watch all the talks.

I am not sure about the 30mins since this sounds kind of short for me. But that is probably also something that the presenters need to think about and which I will ask them as soon as a choice has an actual selection has been made.

[CrossEye]

I would have no problem acting more as emcee, introducing speakers and maybe interspersing with a total of ten or fifteen minutes on the history of Ramda. I don't have any particular subject I want to talk about in any case, and I feel a little awed by the other speakers already signed up.

[jethrolarson]

I can maybe squeeze my material down to 30mins . Last time I ran through it was 50

[davidchambers]

30 minutes was just a suggestion. Longer talks are fine with me. I think we should aim to keep the combined length to four hours. I'm happy not to present this time. The nice thing about an online conference is that we can hold one every three or four months if we want to. :)