[iks-community] It's (soon) demo time!

[Stéphane Croisier]

Hello,

Please find below a short proposal to better define the organisation 
of the demos planned for the next IKS workshop.

The main idea discussed this morning by Sandro Groganz, John Pereira 
and myself was about getting some inspirations from the last 
TechCrunch50 event (http://www.techcrunch50.com) and trying to apply 
it to the new semantic projects or start-ups which will present themselves.

We currently have 3 hours, 9 (perhaps 10) demonstrators and 1 
moderator (myself) - 
http://www.iks-project.eu/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=3 . The key 
assumption was to focus presentations on runnning demos (finished 
products, customers implementations, prototypes,...) and not on 
slides. This means that each demonstrator will have 20 minutes to 
present his project.

In order to best leverage such a timeframe but also to let the 
audiance discuss afterwards with each demonstrated project, we 
imagined the following process:

1) 20 minutes Elevator Speech + Demo Time
- in front of the audiance and of a a panel of experts
- 5 minutes introduction (slides allowed)
- 10 minutes on a running demo
- 5 minutes Questions and Answers (mainly from the panel of experts 
or optionaly from the audiance)
- A meeting countdown timer will be present. No overtime allowed. 
Demo maker will be interrupted by moderator at the end of each slice 
of regular time in order to mainly ensure that a) there is not more 
than 5 minutes spent on intro and slides, b) there is some time left 
for the panel of experts and c) the overall time for demos will be 
respected (time for lunch afterwards ;-) ).

P.S: Please install a screencast program on your laptop in order to 
be able to record your demo. IKS wants to publish them later on on 
the IKS web site. Thx.

2) The DemoPit (http://www.techcrunch50.com/2009/the-demopit/)
"It's start-up chaos, and it's awesome. We pack a room full of 
cocktail tables for start-ups to demo their product during the conference."
During lunch we will try to setup some tables so that each project 
could go into more details with 1:1 informal discussions

In opposite to the TechCrunch50 contest the goal here is not to raise 
money but to demonstrate innovative solutions which could potentially 
enhance next generation of European CMS from a semantic manner. For 
marketing reason IKS could potentially make a price for the best demo 
but this is not the main objective (TBD).

We are currently lacking time to organize and setup something as 
formal as the last TC50 (would become here a Semantic10 or something 
similar) but this sounds like an interesting idea to further explore 
for the next incoming IKS workshops in order to try to systematically 
organize some Elevator Speeches and DemoPits by leveraging at best 
the current IKS organisation and structure twice a year.

Any feedback welcome.... but until the end of the week. Then we will 
have to definitively freeze the planning.

Cheers and CU all in Roma,
Stephane Croisier


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