Hi, On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:23:10PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > martin f krafft dijo [Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:44:33PM +0200]: > > "Secondary" sends a clear message. An alternative might be e.g. > > "blue" and "green" (or "yellow" and "red" or whatever), or if > > possible, the division between e.g. "technical" and "social". > > The difference is not technical versus social, but the result of the > rating done by the academic/talks committee. There will be > official/featured/main talks of both natures. I'm beginning to wonder what the difference between these really is... as far as I can see, the biggest thing is the color of the events in the public Penta schedule, which roughly correlates to what is most useful to hear presented, from a Debian standpoint. Videoing is independent of official/unofficial, and only depends on what room it's in and if it's scheduled in advanced. And there are plenty of unofficial events scheduled even at this point. However, travel sponsorship nominally depends a bit on official/unofficial. I noticed that the weirdness of the GPG keysigning being non-official, and the wine and cheese party being official. It seems to me that all social events in Penta are "official" to a degree, unofficial social events just don't really get submitted or scheduled (they just happen). Having a different color for these "fun" or "non-technical" events would be helpful. > If I understood correctly, the idea for a "social track" would be to > clearly identify things which are not presentations - Formal dinner, > daytrip, group photo, Mao lessons, etc. exactly. I was talking to Jimmy today, and we had the interesting idea to have all talks submitted to at "Talks" category (with a better name?). And then we select the top ones and move it to "Featured Talks". This saves people trying to decide what to submit it to and means we only have to adjust the category of the top talks we want. It would hopefully keep things organized. So two proposals are (names of categories still subject to debate): (maintain current workflow) - DebCamp (official/unofficial doesn't matter for camp) - Open Day (or whatever it's called that year) - Featured DebConf Talks - Secondary DebConf Talks - Social Events (and new workflow) - same as above, but "Secondary Talks" --> "Talks" and make it the default submission category What do you all think? (I notice this is on the agenda for the meeting next monday.) I'd think (at a +2 level) that the talk committee should take strong initiative in reclassifying talks in the category most suitable for them. Anyway, I don't want to overthink this... oh, wait, oops... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - lefschetz: up 147 days, 4:11 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free"
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