Hi,
thanks everybody! This was my first time as a PC at ECE and I really
enjoyed it. Special thanks to Christian for always guiding us and
for perfect organization.
Am 29.10.2012 12:47, schrieb Campo,
Christian:
Hi PC
I think ECE 2012 went quit ok also thanks to the work we all
together put into create the program.
I do a quick list of things that could be better. I encourage
everyone to post their own feedback.
Extended Talks: I changed my mind abouzt extended
talks. Talks I went to could have also been presented as
standard talk I must admit (except my own talk :-) ). I am
interested to hear what the impression of other PC members is.
But maybe we only do one length of talk next year ?
I think we only had a low number of extended talks. I have been a
fan of standard talks anyway. The only thing to change IMHO is to
select the extended talks even more carefully. Another thing would
be to make it explicit to the submitters, that we only accept
extended talks if we have the strong feeling it makes sense. A
checkbox "Can be standard talk, too" in the submission would also
help.
Closing a talk: I attended multiple session where
people did not finish on time. In one extended talk, people
where looking on the presentation time rather than the clock.
One guy also started yet another demo at 0:30. Also two people
complained to me, that their previous talk did not finish in
time.
People simply didnt get that they had to finish 5 minutes
BEFORE the next speaker. Some people suggested to me that the
FOSLC people should interupt the speaker (or show yellow or red
cards). I presonally think that this would be too much. I had
the idea of alarm clocks in every room (started by the FOSLC
people) and they would automatically go off when the time is up.
Other ideas are welcome (someone blowing a wuwuzela on the
hallway or maybe there is a central loudspeaker that you could
hear in every room). Speakers (or at least some speakers)
wouldnt stop by themselves and I think it would be great if we
can improve there.
At the modeling symposium it worked quite well this year, but I was
threatening people beforehand, that I will kick them off stage. The
problem with all solutions, even if you turn the beamer off or ring
an alarm, is that there will be still people just ignoring this.
One possible solution could be to give them 20 minutes slots and 5
minutes for questions. Give an alarm after 20 minutes.
Theatre: The place that I thought was really the best
place for a good talk turned out to suck great time. Again
several people complained to me. They couldnt see anyone,
(lights right in their eye) and the crowd would just distribute
over the whole place. So 100 people look like an empty crowd. I
think we should close the back entrance for talks (not for
keynotes) so that people move into the front half. And maybe we
can also do something about the light. Currently it was a bad
spot even for great speakers.
I like the idea to close the back doors! I did two talks in the
theater, but I did not have any issues with the light. However, I
like to be on big stages :-)
- it was really hard for me to anticipate how many people go
to a talk. Most talks I went to had like 30 –50 (at most)
people. I was really wondering where everybody is. (maybe
again that is because I didnt went to modeling or DSL talks
:-) ). Sarah Goff-Dupont who has like 3rd from the cut line on
the bottom of the list of the proposed session, attracted
about 60-70 people (people lining up on the wall) to see here
Continous Integration Talk. We werent so sure about here
because she is a product marketing person but she is a great
speaker (and singer :-) ) and her talk was great.
A possibility would be to do sth. like a survey beforehand, who is
gonna visit which talk, like we do the registrations for the
tutorials. Even if not many people fill that out, we still get a
statitically tendency.
- The Eclipse 4 tutorial was packed. I have never seen the
Stage room so full of people. There was literally no seat.
However it seems that it was quit some work to get two
proposals together into one tutorial. (give that different
people have different points of view :-) )
That is true. However, the only feedback from my point of view is to
explicitly tell tutorial speakers to distribute their material
before hand and enable them to send mails to the participants. We
were lucky to get mail adresses from Anne. If we hadn't done this,
it would not have been possible to bring the examples and even an
Eclipse Juno to 140 Laptops.
- I liked the three keynotes. As Ralph said, they all could
improve. Some more and some less. The third one was apparently
the best and I think it was quit good to put them on the last
day
- when I distributed the talks on the slots, I put talks with
high votings in the central place (rather than the FMZ) and
also rather one Tuesday, Wednesday. Not sure if that was a
good idea. Seems that the program faded a little out on
thursday afternoon. Some people were sitting there just
waiting for the closing session or they left early. Some
apparently had to leave early because of a flight or a
customer waiting. So maybe not that bad.
- we had a surprising high number of talk cancellations. Is
that something we should formalize more like having a wait
queue ?
Adding some Feedback:
- I think the circus was a great idea, totally enjoyed the workshop
and the evening event
- I think the food was very good
- Maybe we can give Nestor a hint that a lot of people will be at
their bar, I had to wait hours for drinks
Regards
Jonas
As I wrote, please contribute your own feedback….
thanks
christian
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