[Debconf-team] Talk scheduling and eating/venue hours

[Richard Darst <rkd@zgib.net>]

Hi,

I was looking at the talk schedule and hours for John Jay (cafeteria),
which we were likely going to use during debconf.

B: 0700-0945
L: 1130-1400
D: 1700-1900

Lunch overlaps well, with or without the changes from Monday's global
meeting.

However, the last talk ends at 19:30, which doesn't mesh with these
hours.  However, as we know, not everyone is expected to go to every
talk, so maybe that is ok.  Plus, the main auditorium talks tend to
end at 18:00.


Here is another thing I noticed:  Most days, it is the Interschool Lab
talks that go until 19:00, with the Davis talks ending at 18:30.  From
a columbia standpoint, ending Interschool earlier would be greatly
preferable.  Interschool is in a part of the building which nominally
closes to non-staff at 18:00.  We have special permission to be in
there later, but someone will have to prop the door open after that.

If we say the last talk ends at 18:30, then we don't have trouble
letting people get in (we say, last entrance is 18:00), and the lower
level (Davis, 414) is open later since that's where we have security
for.  It would help a lot to reduce Columbia stress.

I realize that Interschool is the "track room" and changing things
this late will be really annoying.  I just thought I'd put this out
there and see what people thought.

- Richard

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