Re: [Debconf-team] RFH: coordinating ad-hoc events
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric@zhevny.com> wrote:
> 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?
If I recall there weren't any such issues. Whether that was because
registration was mandatory, I'm not sure.
-Brian
>
> -edrz
>
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