Note to debconf-team: this thread has been moved from the talks private alias, as it was decided it was better to have it on debconf-team. On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:46:38 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > On 05/25/2010 02:15 PM, Ana Guerrero wrote: >> Looking at the number of submissions we got and how much talks we should >> accept, I have done a small estimate. >> >> The conference last 7 days but we do not have talks one day (daytrip), >> I do not know how many talk rooms we'll have but I assume a couple of them. According to our April 24th meeting notes[0], there will be two rooms. >> Last year we have a maximum of 7 events per room (one hour per event). Also, at the April 24th meeting, it was roughly assumed that there will be 7 talks per day in each of the two rooms[1]. So that seems pretty much the same, which is good to see. >> 6 days * 2 rooms * 7 events = 84 events. >> >> Last year, we have a keynote event every day (first talk in the afternoon), >> that means 6 talks less (78). > > we're not calling them keynotes this time around, but i like the > scheduling idea of trying to have a widely-targetted talk (in a bigger > room?) every day, or at least every other day. Seems like it might give > more cohesion to the conference. If there are two rooms, is there one bigger than the other? >> So what about accepting ~78 talks talks? We have currently 107 submissions, >> but about 10 of them are not talk submission, they are social events that just >> needs scheduling. > > as long as the social events don't happen during the daytime window i'm > assuming we plan for talks, this makes sense. Agreed. >> Finally, I hope we have at least a third room to schedule all the "last minute" >> track. Also note I have not considered here the Debian Open Day (I have not idea >> about its status). > > i don't know about the Debian Open Day situation either. Anyone else? Good question. > Thanks again for the good estimates, Ana! Agreed. Micah 0. http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Meetings#Local_Team_meeting.2C_Saturday_April_24th.2C_2010 1. It was also noted that we can always add more rooms and slots later.
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