It was my first time attending WisCon although I have attended similarly aligned cons. I think the panels, for the most part, worked well and it was good to have a central space straight after the panel for discussion - I didn't follow it particularly much during as I found it hard to split attention between the panel and the discussion.
I did tend to stick to the quieter channels partially because I was on a very different time zone (+5 hrs) so it was hard to keep track of the convo and also because it was very very overwhelming. Having lots of channels though did work well to ensure people could have small group conversations in the smaller ones and partially created that feeling of spontaneous conversation.
TL;DL I think keeping a similar setup for panel discussions works and it might be worth looking to replicate that at the next in-person con at least for the panels assigned larger rooms. This would be less overwhelming for Safety, keep the benefits having such a discussion area bring and provide an oppotunity for non-on site people to contribute.
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Date: 2020-05-27 06:44 pm (UTC)It was my first time attending WisCon although I have attended similarly aligned cons. I think the panels, for the most part, worked well and it was good to have a central space straight after the panel for discussion - I didn't follow it particularly much during as I found it hard to split attention between the panel and the discussion.
I did tend to stick to the quieter channels partially because I was on a very different time zone (+5 hrs) so it was hard to keep track of the convo and also because it was very very overwhelming. Having lots of channels though did work well to ensure people could have small group conversations in the smaller ones and partially created that feeling of spontaneous conversation.
TL;DL I think keeping a similar setup for panel discussions works and it might be worth looking to replicate that at the next in-person con at least for the panels assigned larger rooms. This would be less overwhelming for Safety, keep the benefits having such a discussion area bring and provide an oppotunity for non-on site people to contribute.