On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:00:45PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Michael Banck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 8 hours during weekends > > I think we should not overload the weekend that much. > > I'm not sure why, so I'd like to hear more on this point. > Particularly for the Opening Weekend, we are anticipating a larger > amount of people, that would come only for the talks. It's possible > that this assumption is wrong, but given that it's in the middle of > Germany, I do think we will get quite a lot of "visitors" during the > weekend, for whom talks will be the most interesting. > > I do agree that 8 hours might be a bit too much and reducing that to 7 > would be fine. However, doing much less than that would be a real > disservice to the attendees.
It is probably fine, but my other point is that we might have some plenaries, depending on what speakers are available etc., so it might be 7 hours in the main talk room and 5-6 hours in the second talk room, i.e. not 14 hours overall. > > We could do this again for the closing > > day afternoon session and skip the closing session (or demote it to > > hacking time). > > Why would you skip the closing session? It's one of the few sessions > that everyone attends, and it gives a sense of closure. I don't think > how we would be better skipping it. Uh sorry, I meant skip the evening session for talks and have the afternoon session be the closing session. If people need to hurry to some other conference *cough*, they can do that then, otherwise, the evening session would be hacking/ad-hoc time. Just a proposal, I'm not wedded to it. > > We should probably also not start too early on the first day, depending > > on how build-up is planned. > > If "build-up" is video-team setup, it should definitely not happen on > that day, but on the previous days. Right. Not sure about any sponsor build-up, though. And local german people need to travel there, so it might take them some time. Michael _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
