First of all thanks for you to setting up those rules for the conference. I like rules and I would be happy with most of the rules here. But as Melvin mentioned, some are really too harsh, I necessarily need to some of them due to the reasons below:
point 4: This highly discourage participants coming to be an audience as so many people is afraid to give a talk. So they simply do not join. This leads to resistance of promotion and expansion of the group which is not good. It also does not make sense if we tend to invite guests.
point 7: Previous preparation of audience should be advised but not expected. I would be fine if people come without preparation and waste their time in the meeting (that is their own lost), but I do mind if everybody just simply don't come as they are too lazy to read, then the meeting break down. (BAD END)
point 10: Believe me, it is much easier for a workshop to break down if it is biweekly compared to weekly. Weekly is not very demanding as you think, If you are busy you may simply skip one. If the meeting is biweekly, anyone skip one meeting would try to skip all the latter ones forever. It is much easier to gather people around too.
Besides, I don't think anyone waste their time even without understanding anything or saying a word in the discussion section, it is at least worth for them to just sit and listen and have friends gathering rather than staying at home watching TVB soup drama of playing facebook game. So don't worry too much about their effectiveness of learning, "being late is always better than not coming".
I did propose five topics for myself, in order to let you guys to choose the most interested one or two (others are for spare). They are all posted online.
Regards,
sun0
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