For those who didn’t attend, the concept of the session is to have the presenters from the Best Practices track on stage and have them take questions from the audience. A good idea though I didn’t find it to be as fruitful as it could have been.
Only having an hour set aside for the session I found it unnecessary to spend time on questions that really should be asked during the “Ask the developers” session later in the afternoon. Another thing is that, although it underlines that Lotusphere is indeed a multi-lingual and global event, some of us (myself included), who doesn’t have English as their mother tounge, take a little longer to express what we mean. Because of this a lot of time was spent trying to simply express the question and make sure that all were on the same page.
From my perspective, as primarily as listener to the session, it would have been better to have the questions submitted beforehand. Then the GURU’s would have had the time to sort through the questions, find out who should answer it and make sure that time wasn’t spent on questions that really couldn’t be answered in that forum. I realize that it kinds of defies the point of the session but in the interest of getting the most questions answered I think it would help. Another option could be to have a daily GURUpalooza.
Just some thoughts…
I had the same feelings when I was sitting there… it also seemed that some of the gurus weren’t all that keen on standing up and responding so I think they would have appreciated seeing the questions beforehand too… I’ve linked to you in my comment here