| [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Talk schedule proposal |
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Hey gang, after our discussion here and in person with Chris and John at last weekend’s FOSSLC event here in Ottawa, I feel we have momentum towards closing on the schedule. Here are the main points. Yes, you can get between rooms in 5 minutes. But do you want to? The feeling I’m getting is no. There is so much valuable community building that happens between the talks, we don’t want to rush people off to their next talk. 10 minutes
seems to be the right number. We talked about short talks and I think the consensus is that 25 minutes is the minimum length. With the 10 minute gap and to desire to keep the schedule simple, I’d like to propose we go with 30 minute short talks. That should be plenty
of time and I think we can really diffuse complaints about length with that as our standard. Long talks would be 50 minutes. There would be one slot per day where we would have long talks, after lunch some time. These are the keynote-style talks we were talking about previously. They would be important talks that we as a program
committee feel need the longer time. As such, submitters are not allowed to ask for long talks, they ask for short and we select which ones of those would be made long. Tutorials are 3 hours. 2 hours is too short for a proper tutorial. That reduces their numbers but that’s probably a good thing and we can focus on tutorials that would truly be valuable to the attendees. Tutorials are on Monday from 9-12
and 1:30-4:30. We could slip a short talk before the afternoon one if we feel we need the room and it’s not too weird. Here’s what the schedule could look like for the other days. Remember the 10 minute gap between events. 9:00 – Keynote (60 minutes) 10:10 – Short 10:50 – Short 11:30 – Short 12:00 – Lunch 1:30 – Short 2:10 – Short 2:50 – Long (50 minutes) 3:40 – 20 minute break (maybe 30, maybe regular 10?) 4:00 – Short 4:40 – Short 5:10 – Evening event We could wrap things up with the closing plenary at 4 on Thurs. I’m not sure which slot makes the most sense for the afternoon Long talk. Thoughts? Doug |