M.-A. Lemburg: > The comments on talk length are interesting... 30 minutes were > considered too short. I found 30 minutes a bit short as well > last time I did a talk in Vilnius. If you want to have discussions > and more time switching between talks, then 45 minutes are a lot > better, IMHO: 30 minutes talk, 10 minutes discussion, 5 minutes break > and switching. > > What do others think ?
I assume, the average speaker likes to give longer talks and the average listener likes to consume shorter talks - a least for average talks. If you need prove that exceptional talks can be less than 20 min- utes have a look at ted.com, maybe starting here: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92 (Hans Rosling) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/140 (Hans Rosling) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229 (Jill Bolte Taylor) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/237 (Clifford Stoll) Thanks to Laura for pointing me to Hans Rosling's videos. David Boddie: > For simplicity, we decided that we should keep the 30 vs. 60 minute > slots and > make 45 minute sessions fill the rest of the time with discussion. > The idea > being that in-depth talks could run to around 45 minutes with 15 > minutes for > questions and demos - the longer the talk, the more time you have to > leave > for questions. That's the theory, at least. For EuroPython I think this is the best compromise and the easiest to schedule. Regards, Dinu _______________________________________________ EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
