Re: [Debconf-team] Talk scheduling, volunteers needed
2008/5/6, Joerg Jaspert <joerg@ganneff.de>:
> we need one or more volunteers who are willing to do the scheduling of
> our talks. If multiple people volunteer: You need to be able to work
> together online (ie. IRC) on it, mail will most likely have too huge
> delays.
I'd volunteer to meet in IRC meetings, but I'm not hanging around in
IRC regularly.
> Now, the task you would commit to:
>
> - you get a list of talks, together with a list of speakers and their
> (hopefully correct) arrival/departure dates.
If the task is "getting a list" I feel perfectly competent - feel free to
flood my mailbox with any list. ;-))
> - you have to find a schedule for those, that fits all speakers and all
> the rest of DebConf, while trying to avoid scheduling possibly
> conflicting events at the same time, and trying to guess how many
> people might want to watch a talk, so you chose the right room.
I could try to do good gesses so you can count me into the team of
schedule creators.
> - you have to start soon (we are nearly ready to announce the selected
> events) and the work will end at the time DebConf ends.
> I repeat: This task will follow you from now until DebConf ends! But
> the *main* work will be within the next weeks.
Thanks for the warning. I hope it is not ignorant if I try to be in the boat
despite of it.
> - you should have done this task a year ago already, so people could
> have selected the talks they want to watch during DC7 already. :)
Well, this would disqualify myself because I was not involved in DC7
organisation. Take my mail as "offer for help if needed".
> Mark, who did the scheduling for DC7, volunteered to teach you "all the
> nice details people should keep in mind when doing this work" from his
> experience as one who already had the glory to do this work. Or, in
> other words: Last years victim will tell you his mistakes, so that you can
> make new ones instead. :)
... or improve the old ones? ;-)
Well, I'm aware that this seat is kind of hot and yoou can not fit all
peoples expectations.
Question: Are there any experiences with tools like time table planers?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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