| Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Talk schedule proposal |
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
Ian 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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Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Talk schedule proposal
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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