I spoke with Anne about the schedule. One thing we really need to
do is starting the sessions on the 15 minutes, ie :00, :15, :30 or
:45. Anything else just gets too confusing.
How about we go with 45 minutes time slots, 35 minutes content and
10 minutes change over.
If we want long talks, I think we would have to run them in
parallel. Even thought I suggested have just one long talk at a
time, we have to have the sessions start and stop at the same time
across all rooms. Again, based on past experience it is too
confusing otherwise. One suggestion I can make is that we do 60
minutes talks as the last sessions of the day?
Ian
On 9/1/2011 12:56 PM, Ian Skerrett wrote:
I think 15 minutes is minimum. Remember facetime means time with
sponsors who help pay for the conference so we like to have happy
sponsors. :-)
Ian
On 9/1/2011 12:47 PM, Schaefer, Doug wrote:
As
Ian mentioned we’ll probably need more time after the
keynote to transition the room. What’s the minimum time we
would need for that? 30 minutes seems like a lot. I’m not
sure we need that much face time in the morning, coffee
time maybe J.
:D
And just to add to the complexity...
the last two years we've had a
30-minute break after the keynote -- more facetime for
everyone.
I am planning on drafting a schedule
to see how this all works out, but I'm waiting for the
dust to settle a bit.
On Sep 1, 2011, at 9:30 AM,
Schaefer, Doug wrote:
The
trick there is to build a schedule that has
lunch and an afternoon break at a reasonable
time.
And
you’d have the issue of talks starting at *:05
and such which complicates the schedule as well.
Another option is
for 25 minute talks and 60 minute talks:
60 + 10 = 70
2 x (25 + 10) = 70
Tom
<image001.gif>Sven
Efftinge ---09/01/2011 11:09:42 AM---I agree
with what Tom and Ian suggested. The problem
seems to align the slots properly.
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I agree with what
Tom and Ian suggested.
The problem seems
to align the slots properly.
I see two
possibilities:
1) the special
talks are twice as long as the usual ones.
That could mean 60 min instead of 50min and a
20 min break between the special talks.
2) every talk has
the same length (e.g. 40 mins) and it's the
room which makes the talk special. We could in
addition emphasize these talks visually in the
schedule somehow.
I like the second
option :-)
Sven
On Sep 1, 2011,
at 5:42 PM, Thomas Watson wrote:
I like the 10 mins
break minimum between talks. I also like the
standard to be 30 minute talks. I agree with
Ian about the 'invited' long-talk speakers, we
should not run them in parallel. We will have
picked these speakers because we feel they
will draw a crowd and have something valuable
to say that justifies a longer time. As a
conference attendee I would not appreciate
being forced to only pick just one of these
"special" talks to attend.
Tom
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Skerrett ---09/01/2011 10:00:17 AM---Anne
and Nathan will need to respond about if
this fits with the logistics on how we can
do the schedule.
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Anne and Nathan will need to respond about if
this fits with the logistics on how we can do
the schedule.
I hear you and agree about the 10minute break.
I would also suggest we have 15 minutes for
after the keynote, since those tend to take
longer to switch over.
I like the idea of the 'invited' long-talk
speaker. However, we might consider not
running them in parallel just in one slot
during the day. What if we took the largest
room and that room always had a long talk.
This way they would not be running in
parallel. If you do them in parallel, we will
have the challenge of who gets the largest
room? It might mean the invited speaking slot
will be allocated 80 minutes but we could ask
them to finish early.
On 9/1/2011 10:40 AM, Schaefer, Doug wrote:
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
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