> Presentations and tutorials are explicitly discouraged during the Summit. These types of sessions are welcomed as Tech Talks or Lightning Talks organized before the event, especially when they can provide background materials to Summit participants.
Why is this? I get that the thing is aimed for discussions, but discussions need something to stand on in order to happen. So for volunteers and third-party folks wanting to share relevant knowledge and experiences (such as how to do blah, or what happened when we did blah, which is probably relevant to anyone else doing blah), and then go from there, what options do we have?
For my part I'd have liked to do a skin workshop running folks through the process so that maybe they could be less afraid of the entire thing and have something to go on when discussing how to make it better and crap, but it's very technical and not really good for general conferences, and I'm not sure volunteers can do tech talks? Also how useful would that sort of talk even be just presenting at people when I can't see what they're doing or have actually got?