On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 17:52 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > hey folks-- > > at the global-team meeting today, i volunteered to work on scheduling > the accepted talks for DebConf10. > > I've never done this before, and would appreciate any advice or > assistance anyone has to offer. I'll almost certainly need reasonable > liaisons from the venue team, the video team, and the talks team. > > We've promised a schedule by June 15th, 10 days away. Advice from > anyone who has done this before would be awesome. Hi Daniel, I was involved in doing the scheduling for LCA 2010. What we did was to write every talk onto a post-it note, and then we drew up a whiteboard with columns for each day, and within that with columns for each room. We then stuck all the post-it's onto the whiteboard pretty much randomly and moved some of them around to avoid wrong-sized rooms, put good stuff for opening & closing, avoid scheduling clashes, ... This worked well for a face to face, but might not be quite so good for a team based around the world :-) As an alternative though, I can provide accounts on a caldav server. We can then create a calendar for each room, and events for each accepted talk, and move them around in much the same manner using a CalDAV client such as Evolution, Lightning or Sunbird. We can very likely create the inital events from an export of data in Penta. Once we're happy I can export the data to SQL to be loaded into Penta, and we also have a set of .ics files for the conference. Just as an option, anyway, depending on whether you want to get technological about it. Cheers, Andrew. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andrew (AT) morphoss (DOT) com +64(272)DEBIAN Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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