Re: [Debconf-team] Ad-Hoc sessions

[Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>]

On 07/01/2016 11:09 AM, Michael Banck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a plan for ad-hoc sessions already? If not, we should start
> thinking about it.
> 
> I'd propose we allow them from Monday on, in BoF room 1 and 2, unless
> there will be more BoF rooms possibly be added later on (maybe if there
> is a lot of demand?)
> 
> I also suggest we go with Flipcharts (or whiteboards?) for signup again,
> it worked well enough last year. The already scheduled BoFs would be
> written into the flipchart schedule up front.
> 
> An important questions would be where to put the flipcharts/whiteboards?
> Probably near front-desk would be good, what do you think?
> 
> Me or some other volunteer from the content team will then add the
> ad-hoc sessions to wafer for online schedule display on a best-effort
> basis (but hopefully at least daily for the next day).
> 
> Anybody have any objections or suggestions?

Really, it's best if they submit ad-hoc sessions as BoFs through the web
form. It takes me 2 minutes to add a session to the main schedule, makes
it more visible for attendees to join the session, and saves us so much
pain trying to cross-reference from paper to electronic schedules.

Allison