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Re: [Debconf-discuss] About BoF scheduled not on time



On 12 July 2010 12:17, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Montag, 12. Juli 2010, Richard Darst wrote:
>> I'm not sure of the exact plan, but at one time we were thinking
>> something like an "unconference" system.  Each day, we list the free
>> rooms and timeslots for the next day.  People can sign up on a board
>> or wiki, and then you've got that slot at that time.
>
> Interesting...
>
>> Optionally, that evening someone may add it to the official schedule
>> in some last-minute capacity.
>
> Hmmm. I'm not so happy about this. During the day(s) the videoteam makes plans
> who is operating which shift. It's quit harder to make shifts if you learn
> late at night that a new event has been scheduled in the morning which some
> people need to take care of...
>
> So I would like to remind of the "no scheduling (of to be video'ed events = in
> the rooms with video gear) later then 24h before the events starts"
> rule/goal.

Usually the un-conferences work like this: the slots are hard-coded,
but the content remains unknown until the previous evening. So the
idea is that before the start of the conference all the possible
'slots' of times and rooms would already be known and in the evening
before each day people would sign their events into the empty slots,
but the slots as such would not change. Such arrangements makes sure
that video team can plan ahead, but it is possible that some slots
might be empty on some days if no one schedules a talk into that slot.

Maybe we could adopt that approach to scheduling the BoFs and such?

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