Re: [Debconf-team] on talk duration, the LCA model (45 + 15 mins)
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:50:52PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 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.
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