Re: [Debconf-team] A proposal about scheduling for DC14
Another thing on this email...
On 21/05/14 02:45, Steve Langasek wrote:
> But it's possible that the other space won't be available to us at this
> point, in which case we are still limited to 200 for the plenaries and
> therefore there's no advantage to *not* having them on the first and last
> days when fewer people are in attendance.
I understand the logistics problem here, but it kind of defeats the idea
of a 'plenary' if we are purposely making it difficult for many people
to attend it.
> In that case, what do you propose instead? How many slots does the talks
> team want for formal talks? (Noting that one of the motivations for the
> mixed hack/talk format that we proposed this year was a feeling that
> DebConf has been too talk heavy, with not enough in-between time)
I'd propose that having 3 official tracks is going to reinforce that
feeling. I know I feel a bit stressed when having to choose between two
talks I want to attend. With 3 tracks also there is less change that
there is a slot when there is nothing interesting for me, which makes it
worse.
> Why is that a bad thing? If someone believes that only the talks are
> interesting, not the hacking/bofs, isn't it *better* if they only come for
> the parts they care about?
>
> I don't think this is going to be the response of our typical DebConf
> attendee, however. I think Debian contributors are going to appreciate the
> expanded opportunity to hack together.
Isn't this basically the same as DebCamp, at least in theory?
> are coming as "volunteers". The format this year has been deliberately
> designed to improve upon the status quo, with the explicit understanding
> that people who are actually coming with a work plan can ask the DPL for a
> sprint before DebConf. (And I think it's a major regression that the DC15
> team has reverted this by reintroducing DebCamp for next year.)
As far as I know, there has been no consensus on DC orga about this, so
it is not a regression. DC14 decided they don't want DebCamp, and DC15
decided that they do want it. I would have loved to have this
discussion, but every time I've tried to raise it, it was mostly ignored.
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Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
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