Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] Schedule leaves no time for switch

[Ian Skerrett <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

John

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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.

Sven
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