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Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] ECE 2012 MyFeedback
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Hey!
- Extended Talks: I am still highly convinced that we should just do
standard talks, no extended talks at all
- Stopping people: first we should make it clearer that talks are
expended to finish at a certain time (to avoid the "It looked like my
talk is up 3pm" where is was supposed to end at 2:55pm). This should be
easy to do with an improved layout in the program overview, maybe also
with a little space between two talks (indicating that there is a time
to walk to another room). Second: I like the backwards running timers in
front of the stage (directed towards the presenter) showing you exactly
how much time is left for your talk, changing color to orange when it is
getting close, and showing a big red "STOP" when time is over. Maybe
even showing a "now questions" above the time when it is time for
questions, while still showing the time running backwards. This avoids
the "I forgot" and "I used my own timer". For the remaining group of
speakers who just ignore the time and continue, the next speaker should
just stand up and politely ask the guy to stop. But I guess we will
cover the majority of timing issues with the first two action items.
- Theatre: I love the Theatre room (like those big stages, too), but I
agree that closing the back doors is worth a try. With regards to the
light: this is usually the case for those stages and just a matter of
getting used to it a bit. Then you don't even notice those lights
anymore. I would not change it.
- having a communicated waiting list in case talks gets cancelled is a
great idea. Big +1. We could let people know via an acceptance, waiting
list, or rejection email. We could even make the waiting list public and
transparent.
- Circus was indeed an awesome idea. Having this kind of non-technical
and entertaining event was absolutely great and we should try to do the
same of something similar again next year. Since we have a relatively
big stage available, we have a lot of possibilities there. But I guess
this is also a question of sponsoring and money...
- Improve the nestor bar experience is also a very good point...!!! :-)
- Having something off-site (FMZ) doesn't work that well, I think. It is
certainly possible, but those rooms and talks are always kind of
disconnected from the rest of the conference. I saw this at various
other conferences before and it never really worked out.
- Having water and soft drinks available all the time might be a
standard for ECE, but I need to emphasize this again: this is awesome
(!!!!!!) and should never be changed
Cheers,
-Martin
On 29.10.12 12:47, Campo, Christian wrote:
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 ?
*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.
*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.
* 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.
* 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
:-) )
* 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 ?
As I wrote, please contribute your own feedback….
thanks
christian
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