On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:40:17PM +0800, Matt Dew wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Alan Coopersmith > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matt Dew wrote: > >> According to http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2010/Program > >> there are currently 7 talks, though I don't know how many concurrent > >> events there are. Do you need any help? > > > > There will have to be a lot more than 7 talks before we get concurrent > > events. > > > >> Will presenters' slides be available as well? Or could we get copies > >> we can put on Xorg's wiki? > > > > We've asked presenters to put slides on the wiki in the past when they > > have them - you should find links in the past XDS pages. > > > > Hi Alan, > On the concurrent events I was also thinking of the lightening talks > and BOF sessions as well. I've never been to a XDS so I don't know > how those run (so I might be talking out of my butt here. :) ) > > I've found a few links scattered through the past XDS pages but not > many; the exception being 2007. Lots of links under XDS2007/Program!!! > Very nice!!
fwiw, XDS/XDC are quite different to other conferences I've been to. For once, everyone knows everyone (well, more or less). That makes the conference much less formal and more ad-hoc. The talks are interesting but often enough what is being talked about is already known by the people in the room. This is quite different to academic conferences where new results are presented or conferences like LCA where you present to an audience unfamiliar with your work. I ran into that the first time I attended XDC, expecting a much more formal and academic-style setup, certainly not the case. There's certainly a perceived lack of formal organisation but things just tend to happen regardless. It's not unusual for a talk to descend into a design discussion. And like at any conference, the talks in the bars at night are as important as the talks during the day :) Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
