On 01/27/2011 08:41 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > 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: At dc10, we did 55 minutes + 5 minute breaks. The overwhelming consensus was that this was a serious mistake. Something like what zack is proposing (45+15) would have been much better. In addition to the good arguments zack made, i'll add one more: * time for the video team to actually take a bit of a break, rather than scrambling continuously between talks. Being on the video team is a strenuous job, and the video team does amazing work for 7 days in a row. Letting them do things like go to the bathroom or grab a snack seems like a friendly thing to do. Thanks, video team! And mea culpa for being one of the folks who settled on the 55+5 format of DC10. --dkg PS note also that you may want even longer breaks if the venues are geographically far apart. at DC10, the farthest distance between any two conference rooms could be covered in a couple minutes by most attendees. if we'd had space on the other end of campus, it would have been a different matter.
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