| [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Well, this isn't what I said... |
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PC members, See John's bitter comment below. Please note that my objection to 2-hour tutorials was about having only two 2-hour tutorials, not about 2-hour tutorials in general. Here's the situation: We have 20 parallel tutorials going on at the same time. Thus at 8am, T1, T2, T3, ..., T10, T11, T12, ..., T19, T20 all start at the same time. They all end at noon. Then, at 1pm, we have T21, T22, ..., T39, T40 all starting at the same time and all ending at 5pm. If we have *one* of the slots divided into two 2-hour tutorials, we have: 8am T1, T2, ..., T20 start 10am T1 ends and T21 starts noon T2, ..., T20, T21 end 1pm T22, ..., T41 start 5pm T22, ..., T41 end >From the attendees point of view, they can either attend T1 and then T21 or they can attend any of T2, ..., T20. In other words, the two 2-hour tutorials are not offering the attendees any choice: they are still locked into the T1-T21 block because at the end of T1 there is no other choice of what to attend next. However, if we had, say, 10 of the slots turned into 2x2-hour tutorials, then there would be choice at 10am: in fact, there would be ten choices of what to take next. 8am T1, ..., T20 start 10am T1, ..., T10 end and T21, ..., T30 start noon T11, .., T30 end 1pm T31, ..., T50 start 5pm T31, ..., T50 end So, if the program committee wants to have enough 2-hour tutorial slots so as to provide a choice to the attendees, I'll be +1. But if it's just one or two slots being divided into 2x2-hours, I'm against it because it's bad for the attendees. -------- Original Message --------
John Graham (2008-12-02 15:16:32) wrote: Withdrawing this proposal since I understand that the PC is not willing to consider 2 hour tutorials, despite earlier indications to the contrary. Disappointed that no good reasons seem to be offered for this limitation, and I wonder how many good sessions will be eliminated as a result of this arbitrary change of policy. https://www.eclipsecon.org/submissions/2009/view_talk.php?id=581 --
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