On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ass soon as we agree on the total amount of slots we will need to find > out the best way of scheduling those sessions. A thread apart. > Noted.
> Good point. Maybe we can have plenary session every day at 9am, 3 in > total. If we need more we could go for the last slots of the day at 4pm > (maybe not the last day, though). Sounds good. > Maybe we don't want an unconference after all? ;) > > Something we did in a couple of Maemo Summits was to have an open wiki > where people could schedule their own sessions as long as they were > filling empty slots or negotiating swaps with other slots. A few people > "content committee" could move talks to better spots, and there was some > spots left empty on purpose for last minute sessions. > > No call for papers, but no unconference either. I personally liked it > but FULL DISCLOSURE I came up with that proposal, and it received some > criticism as well. No system is perfect. > What was the criticism about? It sounds like a good compromise between unconf and order ;) In Ubuntu confs, all the BoFs are pre-scheduled AFAIR but the sessions themselves are informal and unconf'd. > Let's stick to 50' sessions followed by 10' break. This allows simpler > schedules, more buffer between sessions for everybody to move on and Actually, I wanted to leave 15 minutes to move around (hence 45') and take a quick restroom break. Getting down to gory details, again from my personal experience 10 minutes between sessions is not enough if you want also to have a few words with the folks of the previous session, and be in time for the next one. > decent frequent breaks saving us from the more complicated 30' breaks. > There is a 2h break at midday, which already leaves plenty of > non-scheduled time. > So the 2h break midday will cover for 10' breaks between sessions? (IMHO abit too short ;) -Sivan _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
