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
