Hi PC,
I’ve finished scheduling the accepted talks. Most of this was done before the holidays, but I had a few more things to wrap up. The process I followed is below in case you’re interested.
There isn’t a lot of time to make major changes, but I need each category lead to review the ordering of your talks to make sure I didn’t make any mistakes in order or speaker overlap (hit the swap button to see speakers). If you want to reorder anything, I need to hear before this coming Monday. You can view (but not edit) the schedule here:
The username/pw is the same one you use for the submission system.
Doug
Tutorials
Group categories as much as possible, avoid speaker overlap, and use recommended ordering from category leads.
Longs/Shorts
Optimize for:
· no speaker overlap
· no category talk overlap
· minimal repeat category parallelism (e.g. Eclipse and OSGi talks aren’t always in parallel)
· even distribution of categories over the three days
· specific talk ordering as recommended by category leads
· panels in the theatre
I generated the breakdown in Excel for longs/shorts to figure out grouping. Then I went to the online tool and dropped things into place. I reordered based on my best guess at room size needs. I also looked for speaker overlap and side-by-side speakers on shorts. I may have missed something between long and shorts, although because I didn’t allow category overlap and I checked Philippe closely, I probably haven’t missed very many.
