Re: [Debconf-team] please review (signing up for volunteering to help with talks)
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:23:32PM -0400, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Biella,
> On Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010, Gabriella Coleman wrote:
> > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Talk_Meister
> >
> > I want to send that out today in a few hours ideally. I will first send
> > to Debconf announce and discuss and then send to my pool of programmers.
> >
> > Are there any mistakes?
>
> Great list!
>
> I've added some improvements:
>
> * provide the speaker with water
> * not only tell the speaker, she has 10/5/0 minutes left, but also enforce
> this
> * tell the speaker in advance, that they actually only have $timeslot minus 5
> minutes available, so that people can breathe and change rooms after an
> event.
>
> I hope everybody is ok with the last change :)
>
> Sadly the timeslots in penta leave no time between actuall talks, or rather we
> forgot to make them like that. 15min breaks between talks probably would have
> been even better, but I think it's too late to make this change. Also I know
> it took the ccconference more then 20 years of experience to realize
> such "long" breaks between talks are good. OTOH DebConf is considerably
> smaller, thus moving between rooms will not take so much time, so hopefully
> 5min work well.
>
> Also please note that those 5min of breaks are not only needed for the
> videoteam (which definitly needs those little breaks badly) but also for
> everybody, it's simply impossible to move from Davis to Interschool lab in 0
> seconds and even 5min sometimes will be a challange.
The elevators in particular are likely to be a bottleneck.
-edrz
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