Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)
Personally, I think this is a great idea, and purpose we start
practicing it at DebConf11.
Adnan
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
> being currently at LCA 2011 for the first time in my life, I'm
> naturally inclined to look for best practices that we might want to
> adopt for DebConf.
>
> Here is one: have talks slot of 45 minutes + 15 minutes of *break*
> before the start of the next talk. I like this model more than the 1
> hour model we have at DebConf for various reasons:
>
> - time to move from one talk to the next, without the stress of missing
> a talk start if the previous one overflows, no matter room disposition
> (e.g.: whether they are physically near or not)
>
> - 1 hour slots is actually too long: we often don't use all of it and,
> even if we do, the attention span of listeners is shorter than
> that. Additionally: we reduce the potential "damage" (in terms of
> conference time that could be user in more useful ways) of
> non-experienced speakers; while experienced speakers will be able to
> convey quite some content in a 45 minute time frame anyhow.
>
> - 45 minutes is a reasonable time frame for either a relatively short
> talk of 30 minutes + 15 minutes for questions (which is quite a long
> time) or for a more intense talk of 40 minutes + 5 minutes for 2-3
> questions.
>
> Just as a suggestion, do with it whatever you please.
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7
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