Personally, I think this is a great idea, and purpose we start practicing it at DebConf11.
Adnan On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > 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: > > - time to move from one talk to the next, without the stress of missing > a talk start if the previous one overflows, no matter room disposition > (e.g.: whether they are physically near or not) > > - 1 hour slots is actually too long: we often don't use all of it and, > even if we do, the attention span of listeners is shorter than > that. Additionally: we reduce the potential "damage" (in terms of > conference time that could be user in more useful ways) of > non-experienced speakers; while experienced speakers will be able to > convey quite some content in a 45 minute time frame anyhow. > > - 45 minutes is a reasonable time frame for either a relatively short > talk of 30 minutes + 15 minutes for questions (which is quite a long > time) or for a more intense talk of 40 minutes + 5 minutes for 2-3 > questions. > > Just as a suggestion, do with it whatever you please. > Cheers. > > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 > zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ > Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere > ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFNQh6/1cqbBPLEI7wRAhcVAKCQu4/naPLIG7a610fqdIFVcF12JQCgxw2+ > 72GiBjPipzfUI1a0HSwQIRo= > =FA4t > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > > _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
