I'm not as worried about the consequences. It's only five. In general we welcome back the top 50 speakers anyway. It would help create some buzz. People who see good talks like to see the speakers rewarded somehow. It would be an interesting social experiment at the worse.
:D
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, ERIC CLONINGER <dcp874@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ian,
By announcing that the top 5 get into the next year, you have created a competition for a prize. While we like to think of ourselves as fully transparent and operating for the common good, I can see deliberate and non-deliberate attempts to game the system to "win". Overall, we're a nice bunch, but that doesn't mean that everyone always act in a purely altruistic manner.
If you want to have such a thing, I suggest you keep it to yourself until after the conference. Of course, next year we may see the effects on polling as a result. Is it safe to say that those people who are in the conference year after year are there because they create compelling content, that is of interest to people, and they would probably get into the program on technical merit alone?
There are always extenuating circumstances, like switching employers that no longer support the cause, etc. So I'm not against the idea of rewarding the best content, I just think you need to be careful of unintended consequences.
We will send out a reminder to all the speakers that the session
slot is 35 minutes, including time for questions. We will also
stress that there is 10 minutes to change rooms at the end of your
talk but that does not mean you can go over you 35 minute duration.
The only exception is if your talk starts at 5pm on Tuesday and
Wednesday, in that case you can go for 50 minutes.
In the past we have never added the room change time to the schedule
and things seem to work out. There is always some people who will
go over their allotted time but these people typically are not
influenced anything we put on the schedule. They just don't know
how to tell time. :-)
btw, we also want to remind/encourage speakers to ask for their
attendees to solicit feedback online for their sessions. What do
people think of awarding the top 5 speakers a slot in next years
conference. We would determine the top 5 speakers based on the
session feedback, a combination of ratio of +1 to -1 and the overall
number of respondents.
Ian
On 3/15/2012 9:08 AM, John Arthorne wrote:
Yes I have had a
couple of confused people
ask me this question. The talk descriptions say 35 minutes, but
the timeslot
is 45 minutes. There is a 10 minute break to switch rooms, but
is that
at the beginning, end, or 5 minutes on each side? What if the
talk is immediately
before lunch or a longer break, can they keep talking or take
more questions?
We need to at least make sure that information is clear to
speakers. Updating
the online schedule makes sense to me too.
[eclipsecon-na-program-committee]
Schedule
leaves no time for switching rooms
Hi all,
Not sure if this has been discussed before, but I noticed that
on the website
the sessions endure 45 min with no time between the sessions.
I fear that speakers will take that as an invite to use up the
full 45
mins leaving no time for switching between rooms.
I think we should change that at least for the online version
and have
an explicit 10 min break between each slot.
