Re: MCing lightning talks

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 18:44 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Nat Friedman a �it :
> > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> >>The time for a hackfest is also completely open to discussion. It's 
> >>likely that only a small percentage (say 20 or 30 people) will want to 
> >>take part in a hackfest, so perhaps Sunday afternoon, Monday morning 
> >>would be the least disruptive time-slot (we want all the hackers 
> >>brainstorming Monday afternoon, I suppose).
> > 
> > Sunday afternoon is too early.  Everyone will be seeing each other for
> > the first time, and will want to catch up.
> > 
> > Monday morning sucks too, because no one wakes up.
> > 
> > Personally I'd like to do it Monday afternoon.  We can attract the
> > people who don't want to go off on some grand 3.0 brainstorming session,
> 
> Well, it is intended to be "do it yourself playtime". The original 
> intention was to allow people to plan stuff, unlike the GTK+ developers 
> who had their 2.6 planning session at lunchtime last year. But sure, if 
> you don't think people will be interested in using that time that way, 
> fire ahead and rustle up some people. The wiki's there for a reason :)


For the record, I just added a GTK+ team meeting to the Freeform
sessions list in the wiki. Its on Monday afternoon...

Matthias