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I don't mind awarding good talks, but guaranteing a slot to a person
just because they had a top 5 talk the year prior just seems wrong.
Their content may not be worthy of consideration next year, or the
topic may not be of relevance. I'm more in favor of maybe giving
them a benefit of the doubt the next year, but an automatic pass not
necessarily.
Guess same reason I'm not necessarily in favor of "Rock Star" status
either. Is the content good, is the talk relevant, those should be
the driving factors in my opinion. Besides you are taking some of
the choice away from next years program committee. Maybe that
committee didn't want to select the person, but because they were
top 5, they have to.
Dave
On 03/15/2012 10:37 AM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
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.
