re: PDC Birds of a Feather Sessions

I mentioned the BOF sessions last week, and then Brad and Shawn made similar posts, but I recently found out that there will be no audio visual equipment at the BOF sessions (as per Dave reply to my post on the INTEA forums).  IMHO, this pretty much eliminates a lot of the possible benefits of BOF sessions, the way they are setup now.  If there will be no access to a/v equipment, they really should change the session setup to a  panel discussion format, with one person acting as the MC, and let the audience question the panel.  This way you really don’t need a/v equipment, and it would also help foster community involvement.  A similar session to BOF was the Panel Discussion at XmlDevCon, and that went over great.  The way it is setup now, one person submits a proposal and an abstract, but that person can’t really do a presentation without a/v equipment (nor does it seem that a presentation is really what the BOF sessions are all about).  You need some way of including a list of panel members for each proposed session.

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