Re: [guadec-list] List of approved sessions

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey,

I agree with this, and this is pretty consistent with the GUADEC we had 
in Seville which worked pretty well for all - especially so since most 
people don't finish eating/drinking until quite late in the evenings.


Glynn

Quim Gil wrote:
> Another factor to consider is the starting time at 9.00am. In order to
> be seated in your track session at that time you probably need to wake
> up at 7h30 in the GNOME Village. Something tells me not everybody will
> achieve this every day, and speakers of the first row of sessions may
> well fear losing a % of interested audience just because of this. 
>
> This is why I suggested a soft start for
> http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/WarmUpWeekend and
> http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC2006/AfterHoursWorkshops , opening doors &
> wifi at 9am and starting the sessions at 10am. 
>
> There is a 2h break from 14h to 16h and also a soft closing time, with
> last round of sessions planned to finish at 19h or so (unless someone
> wants more). Doors and wifi close at 20h.
>
> I think this is schedule is more friendly not only with local habits,
> but also with the social habits GUADEC visitors will get during the
> week. But surely we can also find a solution with lunch break at 13h.
>
>
> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 19:41 +0200, David Neary wrote: 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Alberto Mesas wrote:
> > > Lunch at 12.00????
> > >
> > >
> > > That's crazy for local schedule.
> > >
> > > It should be arround 14.00.
> > I'm not against moving it to 13h but 14h would be too late (considering
> > I want to keep a 2 hour lunch) - unless we have sessions going to 19h...
> >
> > If we move it to 13h, we would just move one of the 3 parallel sessions
> > to the morning (keeping likewise sessions together if we can to theme
> > rooms).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave.
> >
> >
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