Google Ops Presentation and Meeting Formats

Fri Jan 27 16:03:35 PST 2006

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Brent Chapman wrote:

> Yes, that's my feeling as well.  The talks were fine, the spread was great, 
> and the venue was good (though having to be escorted in/out through security 
> is always an annoyance), but the audience wasn't well managed (by itself, by 
> the organizers, or by the speakers).

Thanks for the advice Brent. I'll try and manage it better in the future 
when I'm EC. I think I'm doing the next Google event as well.

That said, I would like to make two comments :

The first speaker ran over by 10 minutes. Well within normal 'management' 
of such, and more timely than a lot of speakers.

The second speaker was intentiionally allowed to speak as long as he 
wanted without interruptions. It's his venue and we wanted to be invited 
back :). That was a conscious choice decided beforehand. So, poor handling 
of question flow aside, thats probably the main reason we didn't 
interrupt.

Cheers,

Al