Event Logistics

Duration

The duration for a Web We Want session is flexible, but should be no less than 45 minutes. The number of pitch slots will directly depend on the block for the session (see Agenda, below).

Pitches

We invite a handful of folks to present their "want" to the audience. Each pitch is limited to 5 minutes. The pitch can be given in-person by the person who submitted it or the pitch can be pre-recorded (and posted to YouTube or similar) or the "want" may presented by the Emcee (or another organizer) on the person's behalf. Slides are optional, but recommended. If we end up presenting on someone's behalf, slides are highly recommended and credit should be given to the person who submitted the idea.

Judging

For the purposes of the session, we will assemble a panel of 3 expert judges. These may be drawn from the conference speaker pool or conference attendees. We highly recommend that the judging panel not over-represent men (especially white men) in order to help cultivate a more inclusive community and draw from a wide variety of perspectives. We also recommend that the judges have different technical backgrounds and competencies as well (e.g., one HTML, one CSS, one JavaScript). This may be tailored to the conference as well, so a conference focused on JavaScript or a specific JavaScript-based framework might have three JavaScript experts on stage, but they should have different areas of specialization in order to keep the discussion interesting.

During the course of the session, judges are expected to provide feedback after each of the pitches, based on their understanding of the problem space. Judges with nothing to add can skip their turn, but each should be given an opportunity to speak.

At the end of the session, the judges will confer and pick their top "want" from the pool of pitches. At the same time, the audience will be ranking the presented pitches, in order of their preference, using a voting tool like PollJunkie.

Agenda

1. 05:00 Emcee welcomes the audience and the judges; introduce the judging panel; introduce format & expectations
2. 10:00 each - Pitches - 05:00 for pitch; 05:00 for judge discussion
3. 03:00 Judging - judges confer & audience votes
4. 02:00 Thank you to judges, presenters, audience & call to action to submit