Walkthroughs are presenter-led demonstrations, e.g. live-coding or running through a Jupyter notebook. Walkthroughs will last 20 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for questions. They should be engaging, containing a mix of slides and demonstrations. Presentations could involve swapping between slides (if used) and live coding or a demonstration of code, or a notebook or other interactive session.
Walkthroughs aim to educate the audience about a tool or technique that would be of interest to the community. Ideally, walkthroughs should provide enough detail to enable the audience to walkthrough themselves in their own time after the conference. Note that the audience is not expected to follow-along live using their own laptop.
Scope
Do not put too much content into a walkthrough. Feedback from previous years’ walkthroughs has suggested that trying to put too much content into a walkthrough makes people remember less.
Resources and accessibility needs
If you require particular resources for your talk then please indicate this in the submission. Similarly please let us know any accessibility needs in the submission too.
Wider dissemination after the conference
We are committed to an open conference, with all materials available publicly before, during and after the event. All slides and related information about your walkthrough must be uploaded to the conference system by the stated dates. During the conference they will be archived and made available permanently via the conference website. Please do not submit proposals for walkthroughs which cannot be openly published in this manner.
Planning your submission
When submitting your proposal for a walkthrough you will need to specify the following details:
Title and abstract
The abstract should be relatively brief and attention-grabbing rather than an exhaustive explanation of the material you wish to cover. Both the title and the abstract will be published on the conference website as soon as your proposal has been accepted.
Audience
Would your target audience be required to have any prerequisite skills/background knowledge e.g. knowledge of a particular language or software package?
Outcomes
How will your attendees benefit from your session? What do you expect them to gain/learn?
Accessibility
Have you thought about how accessible your session will be to the entire diverse audience of the conference? How will you ensure that all text is sized so that it is fully legible to everyone, or how will you ensure that colours are chosen so that all graphics are easily understandable? Will someone who views a recording of your event be able to contact you in future? Please have a look at the accessibility guidelines for the conference.
Note we will review uploaded material before the conference to provide advice, and it should be possible to run a test to check you are happy with how you will present via the video-conferencing software ahead of time.
Promotion
How will you attract a broad and diverse audience for your session? We will provide help by providing easily-tweetable and shareable links to your session (including all uploaded material), as well as a live view of how many people have indicated they will attend. Who would you share these links with? Who are the communities that would be interested in what you will present?
Mentorship
We are happy to provide mentors who can help you put together your session. Mentors can help by reviewing draft slides, listening to a rehearsal, providing advice on making material engaging etc. If you would like help from a mentor then please indicate this in the Presenter Details and Diversity Form that accompanies your submission.
Technological Requirements
Does your walkthrough have any specific technological requirements beyond the streaming platform and hosting of supporting materials provided by the conference system? Please let us know if you would like assistance with setting up and using any conference systems (e.g. for streaming, file upload etc.) or if you would like help regarding additional technological needs for the panel session.
License
All materials uploaded and generated for walkthroughs will be published on the conference system and website will be shared under a CCBY license. Recordings of walkthroughs will be made publicly available as soon as possible after their presentation.
Making a submission
To submit a walkthrough, click the button below. Note that you will need to complete both this form and the Presenter Details and Diversity Form, using the same email address for both forms. You only need to fill in the Presenter Details and Diversity form once, regardless of the number of submissions you make to SeptembRSE. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously, and all data will be managed according to our privacy policy.
To help you participate in the conference, we have written an example walkthrough submission, that you can adapt for your submission.