Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf10-localteam] Talks committee meeting *not* tomorrow night!

[Richard Darst <rkd@zgib.net>]

(moving to debconf-team@)

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:01:49PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/10/2010 07:02 PM, Michael Banck wrote:

> > Also, I would suggest having public comments on the proposed tracks - it
> > is a big change for Debconf, and what I see at the end of
> > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/SessionChairProposal does not
> > seem to have had a lot of debate, is this the current list?.  In one of

(you are right, this page isn't current - last real edit was Feb 6th
and local talk people have made up a different plan, see the DebConf10
page for some new links, but not sure if everything is on the wiki
anymore)

> > the debconf-team meetings, I suggested the following additional tracks:
> > embedded, mobile, desktop, non-linux/ports, science, community.
> 
> Our current thinking is that the tracks would materialize from the
> proposals, rather than the other way around.  That is, if there are
> several talks proposed around the non-linux/ports, then we would turn
> around and say "this sounds like a track.  would $reasonable_person be
> interested in coordinating it?"

I can definitely see where this is coming from, and it makes it much
easier.  While I think that this is now the way to go (for practical
reasons), it's a bit different from my first inspiration for this.
The first inspiration was to get team leaders to gather people they
know and encourage them to give sets of interesting, related talks.

Given the late timeframe, I don't think this is realistic anymore and
agree that forming tracks based on what is submitted sounds like a
better idea new...

- Richard

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