Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: coordinating ad-hoc events
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:07:20AM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
> <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> > Hi folks--
> > I'm going to try to work out a reasonable mechanism for helping people
> > arrange ad-hoc events during the conference. ?This will be something
> > like a wiki on which people can sign up for open slots for day X on day
> > X-1, which then gets published/announced somehow at some reasonable
> > cutoff time for each day.
seems like noon would need to be the latest.
> > This is a separate project from scheduling the accepted talks, which i
> > wrote about in a previous e-mail.
> > Any help or suggestions on this would be really appreciated.
>
> I've done this before using a table in a wiki with the columns
> representing rooms, and the rows representing time slots. Basically a
> virtual whiteboard, barcamp style. It worked reasonably well.
In that scenerio, how do you prevent people from anti-socially stealing
a slot already claimed? Do you simply rely on the good will and
cooperative spirit of all?
-edrz
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