Re: [guadec-list] Proposed timetable for Core days

["Quim Gil" <quimgil gmail com>]

On 1/5/07, Paul Cooper <pgc openadvantage org> wrote:

> If we repeat this pattern over 3 days in the 4 speaking rooms (that hold 520, 150, 140, 64) that would give us 48 hour slots and 36 half hour slots and 6 keynote slots - this seems a lot more than in 2006, maybe we don't need the smallest room?

I'd say keep the smallest room and use it for self-organized free form
/ last minute meetings while it's not under scheduled use.

About how many talks, it's tricky to decide but the decision shouldn't
be made only  depending of the rooms available. Less talks are good if
they bring more quality and less dispersion. I think it's good to make
it hard to get to the Core days, and leave plenty of time & space to
organize sessions the rest of days.

To make this work though it is better to:

- Communicate properly in the call for participation that there will
be a tough selection of talks for the Core days, inviting people to
prepare well their papers. Last year the Core vs non-core days caught
as all by surprise.

- Have a well respected committee with people and time enough to make
a proper selection. I think last year the committee did a good job...
because we had some luck. The same people with the same days could
have got a much harder time and end up in a worse selection just if
one thing (or two) had failed. I think it will help the process if the
members of the committee are selected and announced before the launch
of the call for participation, including people not directly involved
in GNOME.


> What do you all think?

Just one more thing. You didn't include the GNOME Foundation annual
general meeting, but (to tell you the truth) I think it is better to
organize it out of the Core days. This is something we probably need
to discuss at a foundation-list or board level, though.

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