Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] extended talks discussion

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with those points too.
It also bothered me in the past that the extended/popular talks were last in the day, when people are more tired and often more distracted, unless that was a desired feature to help keep people interested.

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> 
> 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
> >
> >
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