Hi, Taking into account Holger's mail here. On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:42:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > AFAIK, lunch and dinner would overlap 30 minutes each with > > talks/events, > As agreed on the last meeting, lunch will be scheduled-talk-free, and I'd say the same for dinner. > > > and the last 15 minutes of breakfast with the daily announcements. > > I personally don't like this. Realistically, especially towards the > end of the week, people will go to breakfast later and later and > eventually, some will just dash in at the last second to grab > whatever they can get. > > The daily announcements are an asset to the organisers, so we want > to ensure that as many people as possible attend. Whether or not > we'll have a raffle, breakfast having actually ended should help. Of > course there will still be people choosing to sit at breakfast after > it's ended, but that's fewer people than those dashing in at the > last second plus those choosing to stay longer ;) I would agree also for ending breakfast earlier (but I see in titanpad that people objected). Another option would be to announce the info at 10:00, in the plenary room and take this into account in schedule/events time. What do you think? > > > I don't know if this would be a real problem. Do you think 1h30 > > dedicated for lunch would be enough? Maybe we should have > > a 2 hours break at noon? > > Yeah, I agree. But in the end it's a question of how many slots we > want to have per day. The proposal I made over at > https://titanpad.com/dc15-schedule had 6 slots per day, > non-overlapping breakfast and 2 hours for lunch. > Ok, so we should not overlap with the three main meals (and set this as a guideline for future conferences, one of the reasons is to respect the time of video team). ... > > Am I missing something? > > A few concrete bits of feedback: > > 1. no need for "announcements and raffle" on the first day just > before the opening session; Ok. > > 2. the C&W party is indeed on Monday, I'd say. We have to have it > either Sunday or Monday, and Sunday is Debian's Birthday and > Open Weekend, and I don't think we should conflate those; > > 3. also due to the birthday, I think it might make sense to > consider the Job Fair to take place on Saturday, which I think > will also be the better day for it. Why did you want to > schedule it on Sunday? > I don't know if there is a particular reason for this. What is the plan for the Job Fair and the Birthday party? Madduck, why do you think they would conflict? A more judicious option: Birthday party + C&W party the same day. Another (more realistic?) option: Official scheduled parties every night. > 4. finally, the youth hostel has suggested to us that we could > replace breakfast+lunch with brunch on selected days. We > thought that maybe this would make sense on the last > Friday+Saturday, as people will then be quite exhausted and > might appreciate a bit of a sleep-in. Yes, brunch could be fine on those days. Has the hostel specified a time for that? We need to decide on this. > > Instead of talks and events on Saturday, it might even make > sense to just have the closing ceremony and maybe an > entertaining keynote in the afternoon, and maybe Friday could > also be just a hack day, depending on how many slots we want to > have/need. Ok. To be considered... > > These are obviously just thoughts and suggestions and the content > team has already been doing great work on this. As scheduling does > depend on the venue a bit, I really appreciate that you guys are > sharing your plans with us. > Cheers, Santiago
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