On 2011-04-29 Robert wrote:
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Let's see what we can do for this conference with the following _assumptions_: *1 big room for talks and 4 smaller rooms *read-only talks only in the big room
Why? A read-only talk to a smaller audience in a smaller room is a very different experience for everyone than a read-only talk in a big room. Further, in a smaller room, read-only talks tend to be less read-only in smaller rooms as people feel more comfortable asking questions.
If it is meant to be interactive it should be interactive. Last year, it got confusing - several bofs turned out to be non-interactive and some talks were more like BOF's. This year we want to bring some clarity. Having a separate room & clear naming would be helpful.
*discussions in 2 rooms
I like discussions, but reserving 2 rooms for 4 days to discuss stuff appears a bit excessive to me. I don't think we want a "lets just hang out" conference.
Discussions is the word I picked for BOF-style sessions. Interestingly enough some ppl know the term BOF, others know other terms - is there something that works for everyone? :D With the explanation of Discussion = BOF, not completely unstructured or hanging out-style (see the wiki pages I wrote, pls, feedback very welcome) you think it's OK to have a majority of those discussions? About the keynotes, yeah. With Klaas' suggestion to go for 40min +5, we'd get: _assumptions_: *1 big room for talks and 4 smaller rooms *read-only talks only in the big room *discussions/BOFs in 2 rooms *workshops in 1 room *1 suselabs room *We have 4 days *Starting at 9:30 with a 1 hour keynote followed by a 30 min break *keeping things up until 16:15 (as we have cool ideas for things after that time) *Sessions are 40 min + 5 min to go to the next one. That is about 30 min talking! *a 1 hour lunch break and 2 30 min coffee breaks (10:30-11, 1230-1330 and 15:00-15:30) We can have 5 slots per day per room. That means up to: 1 keynote per day, 4 total 5 talks/day, 20 total 5 workshops/day, 20 total (but several will last 2-4 hours so count on more like 10 workshops in total 10 Discussions/day, 40 total 5 SUSE Labs sessions/day, 20 total. Yep, counted very well, 84 total slots, probably like 75 sessions to be scheduled in total. Interestingly enough, a longer keynote & shorter sessions means we end 15 min earlier (16:15) and still have 5 sessions/day or keep going until 17:00 and have room for 6 sessions... :D
*workshops in 1 room *1 suselabs room *We have 4 days *Starting at 9 with a 30 min keynote
I think keynotes should be longer, 45 minutes to an hour.
*keeping things up until 16:30 (as we have cool ideas for things after *that time) *a 1 hour lunch break and 2 30 min coffee breaks (10:30-11, 12-13 and 15:00-15:30)
I think a break right after the keynote works well as people always have something to talk about after the keynote. Counting in longer keynotes the first break could be 10:00 - 10:30 which would leave room for two 40 min talks/discussions... before lunch.
We can have 5 slots per day per room. That means up to: 1 keynote per day, 4 total 5 talks/day, 20 total 5 workshops/day, 20 total (but several will last 2-4 hours so count on more like 10 workshops in total 10 Discussions/day, 40 total 5 SUSE Labs sessions/day, 20 total.
Yep, counted very well, 84 total slots, probably like 75 sessions to be scheduled in total.
Robert