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

[Stefane Fermigier]

Agreed, as long as the demos are really focussed on the subject at  
hand (Semantic search).

   S.

On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Stéphane Croisier wrote:

> 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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