Re: Minimizing Talk Collisions: post your priorities!

[David Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

On Apr 7, 2005, at 5:52 PM, DANIELLLANO wrote:
> Dave Neary wrote:
> > DANIELLLANO a écrit :
> > > What about setting a room about technology another room about big 
> > > projects
> > > and a room about social to prevent collisions between technology 
> > > talks
> > > for example?
> > The general themes of the conference are day-based rather than 
> > stream-based.
> Why?

I'd love to give you a better answer, but there are 2 main reasons - 
the first is that it's the way it was done before (the last 2 years), 
and the second is because the focus of the conference really is 
different on Tuesday - it is a day when we try to attract customers and 
sponsors, primarily in business and local government.

> In fact my main interest is usability and productivity of the desktop
> but I don't find the talk or workshop most apropiate to talk about 
> that.
> (I'm not an expert either but a really interested user)

There are several sessions that you might be interested in - Anna Dirks 
and Peter Goodall from Novell are going to talk about their usability 
work on the Ximian desktop, from the point of view of a windows 
migration. There will be a GNOME 3 planning session (codename Topaz), 
which will focus a lot on the user experience in GNOME, and how to make 
it better. And finally, there are 2 sets of freeform sessions, which 
will certainly include a session on usability on the desktop, as part 
of the desktop applications sessions.

> > > Gargantuan Tickling Killer Monkeys (what?)
> >
> > GTK# and Mono tutorial.
> >
> > > Remotely Useful? (what?)
> >
> > A GNOME remote desktop application.
>
> Maybe the names of these talks should be changed as I'm probably not 
> the
> only one confused about these names.

I agree - the titles were cleared up by the abstracts, and right now 
the abstracts aren't online. Perhaps we should do that...

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
Lyon, France
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