Doug and all,
We (webmaster) can remove the archives complete if you want. That has
the disadvantage of none of us being able to refer to previous
conversations either. We could also put .htaccess files on the
archives. Or we could just leave them as "semi-hidden". Up to you all.
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Is it acceptable if the track
leads decide they
want extra talk slots in the hotel? DougG and the track leads seem fine
with
having the conference extend into the hotel to make sure we can cover
enough
topics.
I'm not wild about that idea for two reasons:
- Putting tracks in the hotel causes a segmenting of the community
and the conference, to me, is all about bringing the community together
to bump into each other and talk to each other. Barriers to that
socializing should be avoided.
- Each additional talk/track has financial implications. We've
budgeted for a certain number of talks and tracks. Adding to that
number increases our costs and (generally) does not increase the number
of attendees. Simple math tells us that is not good.
I realize that all the track chairs want to have lots and lots and lots
of talks about their topic. My feeling (and experience) is that we
should have fewer, higher quality, talks about each topic. We should
use short talks to allow a large number of people a chance to talk and
we should use the long talks for the really good speakers about the
really in-demand topics. Think "No Fluff Just Stuff" style rather than
"everyone on the project gets a chance to talk for an hour" style.
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Where can we get feedback from
previous
EclipseCon's?
We don't have a lot of feedback - we tried to gather it for a couple
years, but the response rate was so low that I gave up. If anybody has
a great idea about how to get more valid feedback, I'd love to
implement it.
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Can we get attendance details for
the tutorial /
conference attendance?
You want the number of people who attended EclipseCon in the last few
years and the numbers who attended each of the tutorials?
- Bjorn
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