[guadec-list] Printed content

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi,

I've just noticed this:

http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/PrintedContent

Which seems to imply that people are working on a 150 page booklet for the
conference programme.

This is lunacy. We will not have the time to do a 40 page booklet correctly,
never mind something 3 or 4 times that size. The conference content section
needs to be stripped down - people need an "at a glance" schedule for each day
(2 or 3 pages total for the 3 core days, 1 page per day summarising the content
for WUW and AH.

Keynotes get a half page in the booklet, and non-keynotes should be 3 to a page
- that gives you 3 pages for keynotes, 12 for non-keynotes, 1 page for
lightning talks.

And we need to adopt a mostly hands-off approach to the weekend and after-time.
There should be a schedule, with some guiding lights, and for GUADE-ES a
schedule is absolutely necessary, but people will self-organise, and if we put
too much work into after or before, it will end up being too organised for what
it needs to be.

So I would reccommend having 2 pages for the before and 2 pages for the after,
and that's it. A total of 20 pages for conference content. Any more than that
is overkill (and 6 times that is suicide).

Let's start nailing things down, and not over-reaching on things like the
programme at this stage. We should be keeping thins simple, and give ourselves
as little work as possible over the coming weeks.

For info, I'm away from home with work for the next 3 weeks, and will have very
little time. The outstanding thing which I said I would take care of, and which
it now looks like I won't have time to do so, is laying out the schedule. Given
that we're just over a month away from the conference, this needs to be done
this week, this weekend at latest. Does someone have the time to help out and
come up with a first draft which we can refine a little and announce? In any
case, once we've announced it, several people will not be happy with it, and
we'll probably need to make some changes right up to the conference.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
Lyon, France