Re: [Debconf-team] Planning for the schedule
2009/4/2 Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@debian.org>:
> Who was part of that team?
Vanessa Gutierrez and me.
(BTW, Vanessa's mails to the list seem to bounce - anybody able to
check this out?)
> I was under the impression that noone had spoken up
Well, this impression is just wrong - there was just some delay. I do not
yet follow the list that closely because before not all talks are registered
there is no real need to. Last year I was also in the event evaluation
commitee which is quite reasonable to learn about the events from the
beginning. Before this committee starts its work there is no need to
bother about the schedule, IMHO.
> about this which is why I originally volunteered.
That's fine anyway. As I said three people for this job are good (provided
good communication).
> Right, so having slots nominally allocated to "spontaneously erupting
> talk/BOF" is needed :-)
Yes.
> Some talks naturally take less time, some take more. I wonder if we
> should schedule on 30m granularity with the expectation that talks tend
> to take two 30m slots. Something to ponder, anyhow.
I never felt any need for this. I really like the concept that everybody
knows that at a full hour a new events will start. If there would be an
event that lasts not that long - well, people have their laptops at hand
anyway, right? ;-)
> Certainly. I think keynotes should be scheduled at a sensible time,
> however at least one is likely to be the "welcome to debconf" talk which
> probably ought to be scheduled as the first talk on the first day, but
> perhaps not in the first timeslot (iyswim)
:)
> Are first slots not attended well, or is it early-in-the-day is not
> attended well. If we made the first talk slot be at 11am, would it be
> poorly attended?
If you ask me it is "first slot" and not "early-in-the-day". I would also
think that 11:00 is a bit late if we want to start siesta at 13:00. Only
two slots in the morning - that's a bit less.
>> I tried also to assemble talks which seem to be covering a similar
>> field on one day.
>
> This makes sense, although obviously not all at the same time :-)
Sure. The most attractive (according to the rankings) in the middle and
the others before and after this according to their rankings.
> Putting keynotes that late in the day risks people having found
> "something more interesting to do" (where that might be eating more
> dinner already)
Well, my experiences from Spain are that you start at best at 21:00
to *think* about where to have dinner. ;-) Considering this a keynote
placed right after siesta excludes the chance that people might go
out for dinner.
> -- We need to know what the local team think in terms of
> snack breaks etc.
Yes, for sure.
> Hmm, I think midnight is a little enthusiastic. I wouldn't run official
> talks after "dinner" since people will tend to want the evenings to do
> their own hacking etc.
Yes. I'm not sure how far we might draw this. That's why I'd suggested
to have some fun talks in the end - it's fine if people are doing something
else at this time. But it was just nice to hear what your fellow DDs
are doing except of hacking.
> I'd imagine, given we'll be in the middle of spain in summer, that
> something like:
>
> first slot starts 09:30, on the first day, first talk at 10:00
>
> talks run from 09:30 to 13:00
>
> Lunch and siesta from 13:00 to 16:00
>
> talks run from 16:00 to 20:00
>
> dinner at 20:00
>
> Obviously that is dependent on what the local catering wants for lunch
> and dinner in terms of times, but it would give us seven and a half
> hours of talk time per day.
Sure.
> Any comments anyone?
With the only exception that I would love to start at a full hour - so
at 10:00 would be fine for me.
Thanks for your input
Andreas.
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