From: eclipsecon-na-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:eclipsecon-na-program-committee-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of ERIC CLONINGER
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 11:51 AM
To: Eclipsecon NA program committee discussions
Subject: Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Talk schedule proposal
One of the conferences I attend (Google I/O maybe) has a line where you can just pick up a box lunch that has a sandwich, bag of chips, a cookie, and an apple. At Moscone, that beats the mystery pasta and sidewalk
salad, hands down.
IMHO, I prefer a buffet line to having someone in stained server garb hand me a plate of food I didn't choose.
-E
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Ian Skerrett <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/2/2011 11:22 AM, John Arthorne wrote:
I guess the only potential problem is that we can't fit as many talks into the overall schedule with 45 minutes per short talk slot. I don't know about others, but I think lunch could be chopped
down to an hour if it means we can fit in an extra talk slot (Doug's earlier proposal had lunch from 12-1:30). An hour for lunch seems like plenty to me. For long talks, if it fits into the schedule better they could be 50 minutes + 10 minute break. I find
very few speakers can hold an audience's attention for a full hour, and to be honest Eclipse doesn't have large quantities of excellent public speakers ;)
The length of lunch is really driven by the logistics of feeding 800 people. We can look at this but I would assume 1.5 hours for lunch.
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Eric Cloninger (ericc@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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Eclipse Sequoyah Project Lead
