Re: [Debconf-team] talks team reportback (and block on meeting results)

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Richard Darst dijo [Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 02:59:51AM -0400]:
> > (disclaimer: I was not in the talks committee this year, I was just in the 
> > scheduling hell team. I was in the talks committee 2 years ago.)
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing what made scheduling so hard last year.
> (room size vs talk attendence constraints, schedules of speakers, not
> having talk at the same time that the same people would want to go
> to).  That would be able to help make next year smoother.
> 
> What could the talks team do to help schedulers, and what would be
> "ideal" for making things easy for schedulers?

What makes it hard is that it is never finished - We allowed talks to
be scheduled basically even at the last minute (modulo video
coverage). There are always requests of people to move sessions,
specially smaller, BoF or other ad-hoc sessions. DebCamp work sessions
are essentially different than DebConf ones, but also deserve being
scheduled. We have people arriving and leaving at different points of
the conference, so some talks have to be rearranged accordingly.

So, it's not _that_ difficult, but it is laborious. 

I guess that splitting conference/unconference can help us give more
seriousness to conference, and limit the mess to unconference.

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