> OTOH, if there's a talk in room A and (even if just potentially), 10 > BoFs in room B (it was like this at the Hackathon), then it looks like a > way less fair competition to me. :-/ I was thinking of ONE BoF in the other room
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Dario Faggioli <dario.faggi...@citrix.com>wrote: > On ven, 2013-08-09 at 14:17 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > Wouldn't that raise fairness issues regarding which talks are > > scheduled > > > to happen in parallel with the BoF sessions, as compared to the ones > > > that are not? > > I am not convinced it would. > > > Fair enough. :-) BTW, there might be a quite fundamental > misunderstanding here. Are you talking about _one_ BoF discussion at a > time in the "other room" --as you say below-- or _several_ of them at > the same time, still in the "other room", involving different group of > people --as it was at the Hackathon? > > It might sound subtle, and it probably is, but I think it does make a > difference (see below). > > > If there was one BoF discussion going on in parallel to the track in > > the afternoon, I wouldn't expect that more than a dozen or so people > > would come to a specific discussion. > > > Yes, I think that too. > > > It'll create a degree of competition with the main program, but that > > would exist also if we had two tracks. > > > Well, it is indeed the same as having two tracks if we have, at any > given time, *1* thing going on in room A (e.g., main talks track) and > *1* thing going on in room B (e.g., one specific BoF/hacking session). > In this case, I agree with you, and most of my concerns would just > disappear. > > OTOH, if there's a talk in room A and (even if just potentially), 10 > BoFs in room B (it was like this at the Hackathon), then it looks like a > way less fair competition to me. :-/ > > So, sorry if it's my fault not understanding this from the beginning, > which one are we talking about? > > > The alternative is to just set up the second room as hacker space and > > as a space for "in-corridor" meetings and have no tool to schedule. > > > Well, sure, you can't force people to stay in a room listening to a > talk, if the talk it's not interesting for them, and any attempt to do > that will fail miserably, I concur with that, and I'm not asking for > anything like this! :-P > > Nevertheless, having visited quite some conferences during the past > ages, I think the format is important (as this thread testifies), and I > think we at least should be really careful in making it clear how it > will be like, especially when we ask people to submit their talks and > come to Scotland to give the presentation, if accepted. > > Regards, > Dario > > -- > <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere) > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli > Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK) > >
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