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Re: no schedules til the day before ?



* Andreas Tille (tillea@rki.de) [050609 18:36]:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> 
> >we are flexible regarding how far in advance it will be annouced.
> >I understand the 24 hours in advance is too little for some
> >speakers. Eventhough speakers should by no means start to prepare
> >only 24 hours before their talk, rather weeks. (c:
>
> If you ask me the latest date for fixing the talks is 24 hours
> before the conference starts.  I would prefer if all talks
> would be fixed 7*24 hours = 1 week before the beginn of the
> conference.
> 
> Only one practical reason (besides common sense):
> 
>   I want to organize a Debian-Med day which I want to do at
>   the same day as my Custom Debian Distributions talk will
>   be.  I'd strongly prefer having my talk scheduled in the
>   morning (to have a general introduction in the morning an
>   continue with a special CDD in the afternoon).

the algorithm we will use to determine the schedule is a
search/optimization (simulated anealing or similar) with many
boundary conditions. Once we decide when your debian med day
should be that could become a boundary condition, too.

So this is no reason to not have a on-the-fly generated schedule.
do you have others?


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