Re: [UG-ADMINS] Invitation to WebCamp Zagreb

Hi Joshua,

As I mentioned to James, we cannot provide travel or accommodation
compensation, and we'll add this info to the CFP page.

Concerning 20 minute talks, when we started WebCamp 2 years ago, this was
an experiment. And as it turns out we have had very good reactions both
from speakers and the audience.

Last year we had a questionnaire for both attendees and speakers, and a big
majority stated that they like the shorter talks. It forces speakers to be
concise and to the point, which provided some very focused and interesting
talks.

We recognise that 20 minutes is not enough for all subjects, but since the
conference still has only on 2 tracks, we like to give a wider range of
speakers opportunity to speak. This may change if we grow to more tracks
next year (again, this depends on the financial situation).

Oh, did I mention we're looking for sponsors? :-)
http://2014.webcampzg.org/sponsors/#content

Regards,
Ivan


On 8 June 2014 11:27, Joshua Thijssen <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi Ivan,
>
> Awesome to see more and more PHP/web activity in south-east europe! As
> you are a local and community driven conference, I'm assuming that there
> are no speaker-packages available. I would suggest to add this
> information (either all details of the speaker package, or just the fact
> that there is no package) in order to avoid disappointments for both
> speakers and conference organizers.
>
> I'm wondering why you have chosen for 20-minute talks, which are pretty
> much lightning talks. Is there a particular reason for this, as I'm not
> even comfortable with 45 minute slots. For most speakers it means that
> they would need to write (or rewrite) existing talks into highlights,
> which makes it hard to make the point they want to make, and explain it
> with enough details for attendees to actually take the information and
> use it themselves. Really curious about this.
>
>
> Josh
>
> Ivan Habunek wrote:
> > Hi admins,
> >
> > I'm one of organizers of the Zagreb PHP meetup group [1]. Along with
> > other user groups in Croatia, we're organizers of WebCamp Zagreb [2]
> > which will take place on 4th of September.
> >
> > WebCamp is community-driven conference, organized by volunteers from
> > local user groups. The conference is financed by sponsors and
> > donations and we keep the tickets free.
> >
> > This is the third WebCamp and we're taking things to the next level
> > by encouraging people to talk in English. So far, we've been very
> > successful, with over 90% submitted talks in English on our CFP. This
> > means this year's conference will be interesting for a much wider
> > audience.
> >
> > I invite you all to attend the conference (tickets will be available
> > starting next month) or even better, submit a talk. Call for papers
> > is open [3]. Since this is not exclusively a PHP conference, try to
> > make the talks interesting to non-PHP users as well.
> >
> > If you have any questions, feel free to pick my brain.
> >
> > [1] http://www.meetup.com/ZgPHP-meetup/ [2]
> > http://2014.webcampzg.org/ [3]
> > http://2014.webcampzg.org/cfp/#content
> >
> > Best regards, Ivan
> >
>
>
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