Joe,


--- In frosstcon@yahoogroups.com, "joebensimo" <ben@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> We are planning on following a format similar to CITCON (see
> http://www.citconf.com) in which people will propose topics Friday
> evening. We will put these topics on sticky notes and participants
> can add their votes about what interests them, and the topics will be
> placed on a schedule for Saturday. (Depending on the number of
> participants and topics, we will have three to four concurrent
> sessions going throughout the day Saturday.) Participants can propose
> new topics and shuffle the schedule as the day progresses.
> Participants are also encouraged to apply the Law of Two Feet and move
> from one break-out group to another as they see fit.


I was at the CITCON in Denver and it was awesome! A few thoughts I have
on the format.

Ideally a session has more than one "topic" that is grouped into an
over-arching topic. This helps guide the session to more general topics
while still being able to dive into the specifics.

During the agenda setting on Friday evening, there were a number of
people saying "do you know who posted that topic?" because they wanted
to ask a question about what they meant. The topics were mostly written
on Post-Its so there wasn't room for much details. For consolidation
sometimes it helps to be able to ask someone "when you say 'automated
testing issues' are you referring to 'automatically running' or
'automatically generating' tests?" Putting names on the topics might
facilitate these conversations during the agenda setting and help group
topics accordingly.

Also the note taking was sketchy at best. Will there be wi-fi at FROSST
and if so will you have a wiki available for real-time updating of
session notes?

Matt