| Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] extended talks discussion |
Hi, I completely agree to those points. Especially the fact that the anticipated popular talks become extended talks and thereby run in parallel is a bummer. Regards, Sebastian On 06.11.2014, at 13:34, Martin Lippert <mlippert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey! > > This feedback about extended talks is discussed on the PC group of EclipseCon Europe at the moment. Since we might want to have a few extended talks as well, I thought it might be a good idea to share this feedback here with you: > >> Great conference guys. There is one thing on my chest that I want to supply feedback on that I propose to change for next year. These are the extended talks. >> >> We had only good intentions when we created them. We wanted to give the best speakers/talks more time to speak about their topic and get feedback from their community. I think it turned quit into the opposite >> • a lot of our best talks are now in parallel on this extended talk slot >> • Attendees get frustrated because they want at least see 3 or 4 of the 7 extended slots and then as a consequence miss good content >> • Speakers dont get the attention they deserve because there is another great talk in parallel >> • Last not least I also found that a good 35 min talk does not get double as good in double the time. I went to see Eclipse Flux which is a project that I really love (Martin knows that) but I think the added benefit of the extra 25 minutes was not that extraordinary at the end. (And I missed SmartHome, Java Wearables and a Java talk from Stephan Herrmann) >> I see two options. One is drop the extended time slot. The second is to not give extended talks to the best speakers but to content that needs extra time. I got quit good feedback for the lighting talk format from the Model Symposium. So why not have next time the Modeling Symposium and the IoT Symposium and an Xtext/DSL symposium and a general Lightning Talk session. (and maybe we have to reach to find people to run these symposia) >> > > What do you think for EclipseCon NA? > > Cheers, > -Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > eclipsecon-na-program-committee mailing list > eclipsecon-na-program-committee@xxxxxxxxxxx > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipsecon-na-program-committee
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