| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Short talk concerns and logistical proposals |
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I have some concerns and suggestions about short
talks:
1. Currently there are only 39 submissions for short talks.
Where are all the 75-90 short talks going to come from?
And how on earth are we going to go through and evaluate so many
talks? What do you think about just having people sign up for
short talk slots (1 hour granularity) like they sign up for BOFs? No approval
necessary, and no deadline. We could either do the signup on the web site
ahead of time, or on a piece of paper at the conference. First come, first
served.
2. Switching between computers can take a couple
minutes, which is significant when you're only talking about a 5 minute talk.
What do you think about requiring people use a shared computer for the talks?
Allow them to upload any slides to the web site in a common agreed upon format.
When the time comes, they would give the presentation using those slides from
the web site.
3. What about demos? I propose we say there are
no demos allowed during the short talks. Too many things can go wrong with
demos and if one talk goes over it will affect all the others in the hour long
slot. They can just as easily use screenshots. How much can you demo in 5
minutes anyway?
What do you think?
--Ed
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