On 06/09/2010 11:59 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Jun 5, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Andrew McMillan wrote: >> 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 :-) [... removed stuff about caldav, which i think hans was *not* advocating ...] > This sounds like a good way to do it in my experience. Digital tools > are far too slow to do the initial organization. Post-ins are a great > way to get the overall schedule laid out, then it can be put into a > digtal schedule for the final tweaks. > > Shall we set up a time to meet up? i was planning on putting together a first draft during the day or evening (NYC time) tomorrow (Thursday 2010-06-10), as i'll likely be afk over the upcoming weekend. I have a large whiteboard at my apartment and i could easily get a bunch of post-it notes if anyone is up for coming over. Mail me off-list for directions. --dkg
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