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Re: planning the dc20 schedule



On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:21:04PM +0530, Sruthi Chandran wrote:
> 
> 
> On July 28, 2020 8:47:49 PM GMT+05:30, terceiro@debian.org wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >We need start scheduling the DebConf20 activities. This is my proposal,
> >please let me know if you strongly disagree.
> >
> >...
> >Given we have 7 days, I suggest we split them more or less
> >proportionally so that each region gets it's share of "10:00 to 18:00"
> >days, like this:
> >
> >- 3 days starting at 15:00 UTC
> >- 3 days starting at 12:00 UTC
> >- 1 day  starting at 03:00 UTC
> 
> I do not have a better plan to suggest, so I think it is ok. 
> 
> One suggestion I have though is that since this is not an in-person DebConf, 10 - 18 hrs may not be the preferred time for all. I thought of mentioning this because while discussing for Malayalam track, most volunteers/speakers mentioned that they prefer either weekend or after 18hrs.

That's important to know - so maybe this day starting at 03:00 won't be
viable at all, and the days that start at 12:00 will just work for you.

> One doubt, are we planning to inform the speakers about their
> scheduled time beforehand for confirming their availability?

My idea was to schedule it ASAP, and let speakers get in touch if
their scheduled time does not work.

> This year scheduling is going to be a real difficult task. :(

yeah :)

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